Albion native weds in a Redwood grove
Ayla Schlosser and Brett Cooper recently shared their wedding vows with each other in a Redwood grove in Philo, California.
Schlosser was born in Albion, and is the daughter of Dawn Hofberg and Bob Schlosser. She went to school in Mendocino, and attended Smith College. After working as a community organizer in Washington, D.C., she moved to Rwanda in 2013 to found Resonate, a social enterprise providing leadership and professional development training to women and youth.
Cooper was born in Philadelphia, and is the son of Joyce Ellen Cooper and Thomas Cooper. He grew up in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and attended West Chester University. After a five year career in finance and accounting in Philadelphia and Seattle, he spent three years working with microfinance institutions in India, andworking with startups in Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda.
Schlosser and Cooper met and fell in love in Kigali, Rwanda in 2016. A year later, Cooper moved to California to get his MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Schlosser joined him in California two years later to attend the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Cooper works as a product manager for an emerging market financial technology company, and Schlosser works in venture philanthropy, providing support to social impact startups. They are both based in the Bay Area, but are working remotely from their Albion home during the pandemic.
The staff of the Fort Bragg Advocate-News and The Mendocino Beacon wishes the couple much congratulations!