EVE JEFFERS (COOPER) (2/12/24)
Our 2019, WDAS Trailblazing Woman of Excellence, Eve Jihan Jeffers-Cooper, is also the inaugural winner of the Grammy Award for Best Rap/Song Collaboration in 2002, for the song "Let Me Blow Ya Mind". As an actress, Eve is known for her roles as Terri Jones in the films Barbershop, Barbershop 2: Back in Business and Barbershop: The Next Cut.
Eve has also achieved success in fashion, with her clothing line, Fetish. For 4 years, she served as a permanent co-host on the television show ‘The Talk’, and was a part of the all star cast of the ABC Dramedy, ‘Queens’.
Her latest production though is motherhood, as she gave birth in 2022 to her first child, a boy named Wylde, with husband, Maximilian Cooper. She also hit the Roots Picnic stage last year in her triumphant return to Philly.
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