Single Mom Defined: Kids Interview Artists

KIDS INTERVIEW ARTISTS is a video series produced by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust during the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival. Its goal is to highlight the Festival’s featured artists and their work. Kids of varying ages and backgrounds interview artists on camera, provoking accessible, relatable responses about art, its role in society, and what it’s like to be an artist. In this episode, 6-year-old Caitlynn interviews Single Mom Defined Creator Heather Hopson.

Heather

Not long ago, Heather Hopson lived in the Cayman Islands and hosted a television show. Today, she’s back home in Pittsburgh writing a different type of story as the founder of Motor Mouth Multimedia and Single Mom Defined. Utilizing more than a decade of television news reporting experience, Heather assembles teams to tell diverse stories, provide unique perspectives, and increase the visibility of important issues for local and national clients. In 2018, Heather, inspired by her daughter, produced Single Mom Defined, a photo essay and video series that provides a more accurate definition of single Black motherhood than the one society presents.

Heather obtained a BA in Journalism from Michigan State University, where she served as president of the Delta Zeta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

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