Jessica Ticktin, Audio Storyteller
Jessica Ticktin has written and co-produced stories for National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and for Vermont Public Radio. Her multimedia storytelling work is featured on Transom.org – a Peabody-award winning showcase for new public radio. In 2019, she began a collaboration with “Say It Forward Productions” assisting non-profit organizations to tell their stories. She has previously worked at StoryCorps, Sound Portraits Productions, and at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City. Jessica's writing has been published in national newspapers and in two anthologies.
Jessica completed an M.A. in Education at the Centre for Social Justice and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. Her fieldwork focused on documenting the reconciliation period in post-apartheid South Africa – as well as the role women’s testimonies played in it. Through the use of oral histories, photography, and audio recording, she curated an exhibit about South African women’s lives at the Cultural History Museum in Cape Town. She completed her B.A. in English Literature at McGill University.
In 2014, Jessica collaborated with Middlebury artist Kate Gridley on her exhibit “Passing Through, Portraits of Emerging Adults” by mixing and producing the sound portraits for each of the 17 subjects. The interviews are being archived at the Vermont Folklife Center. In 2017, Jessica co-produced a podcast on Parent.co, Where Was I…? and in 2018 completed a series of podcasts on public schools around the country for 2Revolutions, a national education design lab, in partnership with the Assessment for Learning Project.
Most recently, Jessica co-founded, The Doyenne, a newsletter, blog and curated digital space to celebrate and connect women in midlife.
Jessica is also a certified childbirth educator and teaches birth classes and a monthly postpartum/new mother’s group called VerMamas and prenatal aqua fitness classes for Evolution Prenatal Yoga and Family Center in Burlington.
Originally from Montreal, Quebec, Jessica now calls Burlington, Vermont, her home where she lives with her husband and their four daughters.