Venita Cooper

Coop is the founder & CEO of Arbit, an AI-powered marketplace for resell sneakers, launched in 2023. She is also the founder & owner of Silhouette Sneakers & Art, a sneaker resell shop in Tulsa's historic Greenwood District, known as "Black Wall Street." Silhouette is the continuation of this city's incredible legacy of Black success; it stands in the footprint of the Grier Shoe Shop, a Black-owned shoemaker shop that was destroyed in the 1921 race massacre. Prior to becoming the city's sneaker plug, she was an advocate for educational equity, working in classrooms, schools, non-profits, and state agencies. She is a Teach For America alum and a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia.