Ben Kopper
Radio ProducerBen Kopper is a graduate student intern at Alabama Public Radio. He is working toward an MBA with a focus in social media marketing. Ben has received a bachelor's degree in creative media from The University of Alabama. In his spare time, he enjoys creating digital art, listening to podcasts and playing tabletop games with friends.
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This week on StoryCorps, Afriye Wekandodis tells the story of how she was called to move to Selma, Alabama where she would become the director of the Ancient Africa, Enslavement and Civil War Museum and the founder of the By The River Center for Humanity. -
This week on StoryCorps, Susan Youngblood tells the story of her career as an advocate for victims of domestic abuse. She begins with her graduation from paralegal school in Nashville and then tells how she went on to establish the SABRA sanctuary to protect victims here in Alabama. -
This week on StoryCorps, Annie Pearl Avery is back to talk about a dangerous encounter she had when she and her friends got lost on the way home from a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee conference in Georgia. -
This week on StoryCorps, Annie Pearl Avery tells the story of her experience on Bloody Sunday, when she and her fellow civil rights protestors attempted to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7th, 1965. -
This week on StoryCorps, Tres and Helene Taylor return to tell the story of the community mural they organized in Selma, Alabama and how they used the power of art to bring people together. -
This week on StoryCorps, Tres and Helene Taylor tell the story of their unconventional romance, and the ways in which they healed each other’s heartbreak.
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This week on StoryCorps, Nancy Ziccardi and Charles Flaherty discuss their personal history in the anti-war movement of the 1970s, and the ways in which their hippie days have shaped who they are now. -
This week on StoryCorps, cooking enthusiasts Matt Orndorff and Megan York discuss old family recipes and the way that food can help us to connect with lost loved ones. -
This week on StoryCorps, Alabama artists Winfred Hawkins and Bill Ford discuss the notion of artistic talent as an innate capability and what it means to call oneself an artist. -
This week on StoryCorps, journalist Cindy Fisher describes the way her personal and professional lives interact as she balances the responsibilities of parenting two children and operating a local newspaper.
