Aimee Copping is a musician, educator and author. She’s the creator of Blackball, a unique electronic music teaching program for community children and youth, currently in its eleventh year. In collaboration with prison music program Pros and Cons, Aimee established a dedicated music production space behind the walls of Grand Valley Institution for Women and produced two albums of original material written and performed by imprisoned people. Aimee volunteers with GGRC+ (Girls Rock Camp Guelph+) and Silence Sounds, sits on the Guelph Youth Music Centre’s board of directors, and is Chair of the GYMC’s Programming Committee. Aimee’s a third-year PhD candidate in the Social Practice & Transformational Change program at the University of Guelph, where she researches public music education in Ontario. In December 2025, Aimee published her first scholarly article in Revista Aspas, the journal of the Graduate Program in Performing Arts at the University of São Paulo.