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After a year-long national search, Priscilla Hancock Cooper has been named the Vice President of Institutional Programs for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Cooper will oversee programming for the Institute which includes leading the BCRI Education and Archives divisions.
Cooper has made a name for herself both locally and nationally and as a Renaissance woman. She has a long career in writing and program development. She is also a published poet and nationally touring performer.
Her long association with the Institute began in 1992 when she was copy writer for the Institute's permanent exhibition. Before accepting the VP position, Cooper was the Coordinator for the Birmingham Cultural Alliance Partnership (BCAP) project. Administered by the Institute, this nationally recognized collaborative project involves eight of the city's major cultural institutions. BCAP provides after school enrichment activities for at-risk middle school students at Banks and Hudson Middle schools.
Cooper has worked as a teaching writer for the "Writing Our Stories" project, and program consultant to numerous arts and education institutions including the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, the Arts Consortium of Cincinnati, the Birmingham Museum of Art, Jefferson County (Kentucky) Public Schools, Bessemer City Schools, and Birmingham Public Schools. She taught communications at the University of Louisville and the University of Montevallo.
She graduated from Lincoln University of Missouri with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism and History in 1973. She then received a Masters of Arts degree in International Communication from the American University in Washington DC in 1977.
Cooper is available for interviews. She can be reached at 205-328-9696, ext. 233 or at pcooper@bcri.org.
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