Cooper Conway attends the Boise State University Honors College, where he is earning his Bachelor of Science in political science with an emphasis on American government and public policy. He has served as an intern for the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., where he provided research for the Ed Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies and the AEIdeas Blog. He has also served as a research associate for the Cascade Policy Institute in Portland, Oregon.