
Backstory STL #14: Jason Korner
Jason Korner is a criminal defense attorney with his own firm in St. Louis County.

Hosted by Matt Woods · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 14 episodes
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Backstory STL is a First Alert 4 podcast dedicated to highlighting local people whose life stories inspired them to make a difference in their community.
Matt Woods hosts Backstory STL, a news show with 14 episodes published.

Jason Korner is a criminal defense attorney with his own firm in St. Louis County.

Jerry Naunheim was a photographer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 25 years and covered several historical events locally and abroad.

This week's guest on Backstory STL is John Perkins. He used crack for decades and struggled to make it by. But through his lows, he found a light. Now, he wants to give back to St. Louis-area youth and be a role model he

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Julie Smith is a communications professor at Webster University and author of “Master the Media: How Teaching Media Literacy Can Save Our Plugged-In World.”

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Bobby Bostic was incarcerated in Missouri for 27 years. After being convicted of an armed robbery he committed at 16, a judge sentenced him to 241 years in prison - effectively a life sentence. But a recent law allowed f

Ed Wheatley is an author whose love for baseball has helped keep a major part of St. Louis history alive. You know about our beloved Cardinals, but what about the St. Louis Browns? Major League Baseball's forgotten team

This week's guest on Backstory STL is Lindy Drew, co-founder and lead storyteller for Humans of St. Louis.

Erica Williams is a nonprofit leader making her community healthier through food. She changed her career as a paralegal to start an organization called "A Red Circle."

My guest this week is a volunteer wish granter for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. He's been granting wishes for about 10 years but his connection to the nonprofit started long before then.

This week’s guest on Backstory STL is Jeff Hastings, a 20-year Air Force veteran who runs the nonprofit “The Flagman’s Mission Continues.”

Patrick Benson is a case manager at the Criminal Justice Ministry in St. Louis. He advocates for those involved in the criminal justice system as well as people struggling with substance use.

The inaugural episode of Backstory STL features Pastor Pamela Paul. She started her church, Faith, Hope, and Love, after losing family members to drug overdoses. Her boots-on-the-ground outreach work is about trying to c
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