Candice Cook

On August 3, 2012, Harry Simmons, III (B.S., 1998) and Candice S. Cook (BA, 2000) were engaged. The couple, who reside in New York where Harry is the Global Sales Manager for IBM and Candice is the Managing Member of Ca-Co GLobal Inc. and The Cook Law Group, PLLC in Manhattan, began their courtship when Candice returned to New York from an entrepreneurship program at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. They will marry at the Oheka Castle on the Gold Coast of Long Island in 2013.

Candice S. Cook (Col ’00 L/M) is an attorney at Bickel Brewer. She has had an exciting 2009 which started with a visit to the Sundance Film Festival in January, where she appeared in the HBO documentary Good Hair starring Chris Rock, which won a Special Jury Prize For U.S. Documentary. Her appearance in the film also appeared on Entertainment Tonight and the film was referenced in several New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles. Ms. Cook was selected by the Apex Society as a finalist for Atlanta’s “Power 30 Under 30”. She traveled to the Kentucky Derby, where she visited with Adriana Ching (Col ’00 L/M); Turks & Caicos, where she ran into her Kappa Rho Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority sisters, Tiffany Carter (Col ’96) and Erica Williams (Col ’95, Law ’98); Miami to celebrate with Kia J. Lowe (Col ’01 L/M); Atlanta and Virginia for weddings, where she visited with Cabral Thornton (Engr ’99) and Jenai Emmel (Col ’00); the Tribeca Film Festival; Saratoga Races in upstate New York with fellow sorority sister Bettina Goolsby (Com ’00); Harlem, New York, where she visited Sidney Hankerson (Col ’00), who is attending Columbia University for his psychology fellowship; Washington, D.C., where she visited her former University roommate, Andrea White (Col ’00); and was thrilled to receive a visit from her other former roommate, Candice Stanislaus Lancaster (Col ’00 A/M), and her daughter, Nadia Reese Lancaster, 2. Ms. Cook was invited this year to serve on the advisory panels of BlazeTrak, Inc. and the American Bar Association. She is looking forward to traveling to Houston, where she will be honored for her work on the advisory panel for the National Black Pre-Law Conference and Law Fair, which helps expose minorities to the legal field. While she has been thrilled with what 2009 has brought thus far, she is equally excited for the coming months where she will be included in a second anthology tentatively titled 100 Successful African American Attorneys, edited by Evangeline M. Mitchell, to be published by Hope’s Promise Publishing. She plans to continue her volunteer efforts with fellow Hoos to assist the New York Restoration Project and Operation Fairy Dust.