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pcooper@bcri.org

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Priscilla Hancock Cooper is the teaching writer for the Writing Our Stories program at the Department of Youth Services Chalkville campus. A writer, educator, and consultant, she has worked with arts, education, and cultural institutions throughout the Southeast. Her one-woman show, Call Me Black Woman, toured college campuses throughout the country and was produced with a full cast at Red Mountain Theatre Company (RMTC). Summerfest Musical Theatre (now RMTC) produced her play Back to the Dream. Her work has also appeared in the anthologies The Dark Woods I Cross, Black Alabama, and The Storytellers, and the textbook Teaching Zora Neale Hurston. Priscilla also serves as Vice President of Institutional Programs at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. She earned an MA in International Communications at The American University and a BA in Journalism and History at Lincoln University of Missouri.