Candice Cook

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Candice S. Cook began her professional career as a corporate litigator. She now works as a new media and intellectual property attorney at Ca-Co Global Inc. and specializes in startups, advanced technology and media across a variety of digital platforms, enabling film, television, and social networks to create immersive, connected, interactive experiences across console, online, mobile, traditional, and social network platforms. A graduate of The University of Virginia and Vanderbilt Law School, Cook also studied trial techniques at Oxford University and entrepreneurship at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

In addition to her position with the YLB, Cook takes great pride in utilizing her successful track record as an attorney to enrich and enable her surrounding communities.  She has served as a Professional Women’s Advisory Board Member and as a member of the Dallas Bar and New York State Bar Associations; the J.L. Turner Association; Co-Chair of the Dallas Young Lawyer’s Association Domestic Violence Committee; Pre-law Conference Advisory Board Member; the New York Restoration Project’s Young Buds Member; and as an American Bar Association Advisory Board Member. She currently sits on the United Way Young Leadership Council Executive Committee, is Chair of the The History Makers Young Patron’s Executive Committee, serves on the Steering Committee of the Apollo Theater’s Young Patron’s Committee, and is a Young Leadership Board Member with the Council of Urban Professionals.  In 2011, she served on the host committee of the Haiti Cheri Fundraiser to bring continued attention and resources to the people of Haiti. Her steadfast commitment to the legal profession resulted in her being honored as a Pearl Honoree in 2009 from the Pre-Law Association of Houston and as a finalist for Atlanta’s Power 30 Under 30 Award.

In addition to her professional career as an attorney, in 2007, Cook was included in a legal anthology on passing the bar exam and was invited to serve as a political correspondent on Sirius radio. She appeared in the HBO documentary “Good Hair,” the 2009 winner for Special Jury Prize for U.S. documentary at the Sundance Film Festival and has also appeared in the American Bar Association Journal, O Magazine, and on The Today Show.