Meal with a Mentor offers the opportunity to strengthen connections between students and alumni with similar academic and industry interests. This unique event brings together four students and an alumni over dinner, hosted by Latitude 39, Ohio University’s student-run restaurant. Dinners provide an opportunity for the featured alumni to share their experiences in a casual environment. 

Each meal is organized by the Office of Signature Academic Experiences in partnership with The Alumni Association. Six meals will be organized each semester with students and alumni represented from multiple disciplines.

This week we feature alum - Brian Koscho - MFA in Communication Media Arts at Ohio University in April 2022

Bio: Brian Koscho is a media artist living in Athens, Ohio. He is the director and founder of Invisible Ground, a project centered on place-based storytelling in local history using a podcast and a series of augmented reality Immersive Historic Markers. Koscho completed his MFA in Communication Media Arts at Ohio University in April 2022. Along with his work in media, Brian is an adjunct instructor at Ohio University in the Scripps College of Communication, teaching podcasting at the School of Media Arts & Studies. Out in the community, he has taught Community Storytelling, Audio Storytelling, and Podcasting and helped with workshops on Documentary Film and Storytelling for high school students in Appalachian, Ohio. Koscho has produced multimedia work and collaborated in various forms with Stuart’s Opera House (where he worked from 2007-2019) and its Nelsonville Music Festival, Inside Appalachia, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, POV, WOUB Public Media, Mid Atlantic Arts, Foundation for Appalachian Ohio, Ohio History Connection, Ohio Arts Council, COAD, Mount Zion Baptist Church Preservation Society, the Southeast Ohio History Center, and many more organizations.