Awards and Commendations
Cook has received numerous awards and commendations, including a nomination for EBONY Magazine's “Top 30 Under 30” Youth Leaders feature in 2006, the Tavis Smiley Foundation Youth Leadership Award in 2004, a Toledo NAACP Excellence in Education Award in 2002, the Toledo NAACP Activist of the Year Award in 2001 and a Proclamation from the City of Toledo, Ohio's Mayor, Jack Ford, in 2000. Cook is also a member of Omega Psi Phi.
In 2011, Cook was named one of New Orleans' top 40 leaders under the age of 40 by The Gambit Weekly.
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