Jen Rubin is the Executive Producer of Love Wisconsin, leads storytelling workshops in Madison and around the state, co-produced the Moth StorySlam in Madison for ten years, and is on the Great Midwest Bagel Quest. Jen is an obsessive maker of mixed tapes, quite possibly the best challah baker in town. |
An Engrossing Memoir" The Progressive
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I am on a self appointed Midwest Bagel Quest. How it started: A New York Jew living in the Midwest just looking for a great bagel. How it is going: I am now telling the untold story of the Midwest bagel. |
I CAN HELP YOU TELL YOUR STORY
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"Jen Rubin makes storytelling look easy, but she knows it's not...She also expertly helps students tease out their own stories -- even when they don't think they have anything to share." |
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"Her workshops were well thought out and engaging. Our participants felt they had more tools to tell their stories. It is great to see how the art of storytelling is becoming a great tool for social and environmental change." |
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I worked at Wisconsin Humanities as the Executive Producer of Love Wisconsin, a statewide storytelling project. Humanities Councils lost all federal funding on April 3rd due to a directive from DOGE and the Trump Administration. I joined a colleague of mine and WORT radio host Ali Muldrow (who I do storytelling workshops with in Wi state prisons) to talk about why humanities work is so important for civic health.
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When I was a kid in the 1970s I recorded my grandmother singing Yiddish folksongs. Those Sony and Maxwell cassette tapes sat on a shelf until the digital age and my mom got them digitized. A couple of years ago, when my mom was in the intensive care unit in the hospital, these Yiddish folksong recordings were called into service so my mom could hear them. Link here to my Wisconsin Life story about these tapes and to hear snippets of my grandmother sings.
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