Jessica Becker is Director of Letters and Communications, and editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine for the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. She is a communications professional, writer, and public program expert with decades of experience working in communities across Wisconsin. She was director of communications for Wisconsin Humanities and led the organizations’ digital communication programs, including producing Human Powered podcast. She is currently co-host of Human Powered and hosts conversations with cultural leaders working to strengthen civic space through public programming in communities around the state. She founded and managed Making It Home film festival, was the state liaison with the Smithsonian Institution’s Traveling Exhibit Services (SITES) to tour exhibits around rural Wisconsin, and was part of the founding team of the Wisconsin Book Festival. Becker is editor of Wisconsin People & Ideas magazine, in charge of the fiction and poetry contest, letters events and programs, as well as all Academy communications.
