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Human Powered: In Conversation with Jim Winship
Jun 17, 2026
28m 16s
Human Powered: In Conversation with Kevin Mullen
May 28, 2026
31m 36s
Human Powered: In Conversation with Sergio González
Apr 28, 2026
23m 57s
Human Powered: In Conversation with Garrett Bucks
Apr 7, 2026
36m 14s
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Mar 24, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/17/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Jim Winship | Jim Winship is an oldster with a mic and a camera. His latest project combines his background as a social worker, retired professor, storyteller, and filmmaker to create his second film, Growing Older in Rural Wisconsin. In this episode, co-hosts Jessica Becker and Jen Rubin talk with Winship about what he’s learning in a state that projects that 1 in 5 people will be over age 65 within the next two decades, and many of those people are choosing to age-in-place. Winship shares stories about a... | 28m 16s | ||||||
| 5/28/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Kevin Mullen✨ | humanitieseducation+3 | Kevin Mullen | UW Odyssey ProjectPlato's Allegory of the Cave | — | humanitiesadult education+3 | — | 31m 36s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Sergio González✨ | Latinx Studieshistory+3 | Sergio González | Marquette UniversityWisconsin101+2 | — | historyLatinx Studies+3 | — | 23m 57s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Garrett Bucks✨ | community organizingneighborhood gatherings+3 | Garrett Bucks | Barnraisers ProjectThe White Pages | Milwaukee | Garrett BucksBarnraisers Project+3 | — | 36m 14s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings✨ | Native peoplelanguage preservation+3 | Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings | Midwest Indigenous Immersion Network | — | Native educationlanguage preservation+3 | — | 32m 17s | |
| 3/10/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Yia Lor✨ | storytellingforest therapy+3 | Yia Lor | — | — | Yia Lorforest therapy+5 | — | 24m 41s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Maureen McCollum✨ | Wisconsin food storiesradio segments+3 | Maureen McCollum | Wisconsin LifeWPR | — | Wisconsin LifeMaureen McCollum+3 | — | 29m 45s | |
| 1/26/26 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Jane Beachy✨ | justice systemincarceration+3 | Jane Beachy | Illinois HumanitiesNational Endowment for the Humanities | — | justiceincarceration+3 | — | 31m 43s | |
| 12/29/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation again with Dena Wortzel✨ | nonprofit challengesfunding cuts+3 | Dena Wortzel | Wisconsin Humanities | — | Wisconsin HumanitiesDena Wortzel+3 | — | 30m 51s | |
| 12/15/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Jay Salinas✨ | artfarming+4 | Jay Salinas | Wormfarm Institute | Driftless Regionsouthwest Wisconsin+1 | Wormfarm Instituteartist residency+5 | — | 36m 01s | |
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| 11/5/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Mary Beth Collins✨ | nonprofitscommunity studies+5 | Mary Beth Collins | Center for Community and Nonprofit StudiesUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison | WisconsinTrump administration | nonprofitsMary Beth Collins+5 | — | 34m 14s | |
| 10/20/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Benny Witkovsky | Recent years have seen a startling rise in hate crimes and hate-motivated violence across the country. Wisconsin, too, has felt this pain. In this episode, special guest Benny Witkovsky talks about his work as a public humanities fellow through the Center for Humanities and Wisconsin Humanities to address these challenges from the ground up. His ongoing research points to the ways communities can work together before tragedy strikes, and how to start conversations using personal stories and t... | 28m 42s | ||||||
| 10/6/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Danielle Hairston Green | In this episode, special guest Danielle Hairston Green breaks down the basics of how university extension programs combine advocacy, research, and academia in response to real community needs. Hairston Green directs the Institute for Human Development and Relationships with the University of Wisconsin-Madison Division of Extension, where she encourages her staff to tell stories so we can better understand the power and impact of the Wisconsin Idea in action today. Co-hosts Jessica Becker and ... | 29m 34s | ||||||
| 9/23/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Ben Grignon | When Ben Grignon walks into a classroom on the first day of school, he starts with a good story. He is a Traditional Menominee Arts instructor at the Menominee Nation High School and has received numerous awards for his work, including receiving the 2022 First Peoples Fund Education Fellow for the We the Peoples Before Education initiative at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts. He was also one of the eight people selected in 2025 as Wisconsin Humanities Fellows. In this episode of Human... | 30m 35s | ||||||
| 9/8/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Qwantese Winters | Food traditions are core to who we are and how we build community. In this episode, cohosts Jessica Becker and Jen Rubin talk with Qwantese Winters, the founder of A Bowl of Soul. Winter’s has been dubbed the Food Doula and was the host of Wisconsin PBS’s show, “Let’s Grow Stuff.” Her Love Wisconsin story about learning to farm and cook by connecting with her family heritage was wildly popular, so we wanted to catch up and learn more about how she is showing up in the world today. Winte... | 31m 54s | ||||||
| 8/25/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Jimmy Gutierrez | It is August of 2025 and record rainfall has caused catastrophic flash flooding in Milwaukee. Hosts Jessica Becker and Jen Rubin sit down with Milwaukee journalist and former Human Powered host Jimmy Gutierrez to talk about the crucial role of the humanities in moments like these. Gutierrez, who joined the Wisconsin Humanities board earlier this year, as the organization planned for survival after devastating cuts to staff and programs in April 2025, suggests that the word humanities is a lim... | 34m 30s | ||||||
| 8/13/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Alexandria Delcourt | Each of us is experiencing a million things on any given day. Alexandria Delcourt believes that how we move from the chaos and overwhelm of life to understand ourselves, and each other, comes down to telling a good story. Alexandria helped to produce some of readers’ favorite Love Wisconsin stories for Wisconsin Humanities, is the current editor of Our Lives magazine, and leads the Isthmus Writing Workshop. Co-hosts Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker sit down to talk with Alexandria about her pivot... | 26m 24s | ||||||
| 7/28/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Adam Carr | Adam Carr is a Milwaukee alchemist. He is an evangelist for his home and an urban explorer who uses storytelling, city walking tours, radio productions, film, journalism, and art to build connections between people and place. Hosts Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker invited former Human Powered co-host into a friendly conversation that got deep, fast. Join us for a discussion about the mystery and magic of doing the good work of the public humanities. We talk about starting collective experiences t... | 34m 38s | ||||||
| 7/14/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Brendon Panke | “Stories are told for connection,” says Brendon Panke, who has found ways to use stories to build community, entertain audiences, train medical professionals, and help veterans and people who are incarcerated craft their understanding of their place in the world. Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker sit down with Panke to learn more about how the tool of storytelling has applications for breaking through some of the walls and calluses we’ve built. Storytelling is a crucial part of imagining the chang... | 26m 54s | ||||||
| 6/30/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Mercedes Falk | These days the national news is full of stories about deportations and ICE raids, and the latest legislation that will vastly increase the ICE budget. In Wisconsin, studies by the University of Wisconsin–Madison School for Workers have documented the large portion of farm labor -- estimated at 70% -- done by immigrants, many of whom are undocumented. Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker sat down two weeks ago with Mercedes Falk, the director of Puentes/Bridges, an organization based in Alma that work... | 19m 34s | ||||||
| 6/16/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with BJ Hollars | BJ Hollars' energy for making connections in sometimes unexpected places is infectious. He is a writer, a professor, a documentary filmmaker, and a proud resident of Eau Claire. His anthology, "Hope is the Thing: Wisconsinites on Perseverance in a Pandemic" from Wisconsin Historical Society Press inspired a series of Wisconsin Humanities' Love Wisconsin stories. And a film he co-produced called "When Rubber Hit the Road" about the closing of the Uniroyal tire plant received a Wisconsin Humani... | 24m 18s | ||||||
| 6/2/25 | ![]() Human Powered: In Conversation with Dena Wortzel | Wisconsin Humanities is going into hibernation. What does that mean? And what will happen to Human Powered podcast? Jen Rubin and Jessica Becker have been behind the scenes for past seasons of Human Powered. In this strange moment, after DOGE eliminated federal funding to support humanities councils all over the country, Jen and Jessica are taking the mics to talk with people about what this means in our state and communities. First up, they talk with Dena Wortzel, longtime director of Wiscon... | 24m 00s | ||||||
| 4/14/25 | ![]() The Final Chapter: Basket maker April Stone helps us celebrate ten years of Love Wisconsin | An important update about Wisconsin Humanities and its programs, including Human Powered podcast and Love Wisconsin digital stories: As a result of the defunding of Wisconsin Humanities and all state councils' operational grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, this will be the last episode of Human Powered. The news of the cut to the WH was abrupt, and so we are still figuring things out. If you want to know more, we have updates on the Wisconsin Humanities websit... | 33m 58s | ||||||
| 3/3/25 | ![]() Your Stories: Celebrating Ten Years of Love Wisconsin with Scott Schultz | For ten years, Love Wisconsin producers have been excavating beneath the surface of our state by talking with people and sharing what we learn, one story at a time. Over this anniversary year, we are excited to reconnect with some of the people who shared stories that our readers loved most. This episode of Human Powered features Scott Schultz. Scott is a farm boy from Wisconsin, a Marine Corps veteran, a retired small-town journalist, a writer, and the founder of the Heartbeat Center f... | 18m 47s | ||||||
| 1/22/25 | ![]() Human Powered Presents: Uprooted | For this special edition of Human Powered, we are sharing an episode of a series called Uprooted produced by our friends at Wisconsin Life and WPR. In 1980, there was an exodus of Cubans who left their homes for the United States as part of the Mariel Boatlift. This includes almost 15,000 Cuban refugees who were sent to Fort McCoy in Sparta, Wisconsin. Wisconsin Humanities awarded a grant to the La Crosse Public Library in support of an interactive online exhibit on the history of... | 39m 17s | ||||||
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