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Jesse Ruskin

Evaluation Assistant, Ford Theatre Foundation

Jesse Ruskin is Evaluation Assistant for the Ford Theatre Foundation, oversees evaluation of community engagement programs for the Ford Theatres. Jesse supervises a team of evaluators who collect data at the theatre and its community partner sites. He also contributed research to the LACAC’s 2016 Cultural Equity and Inclusion Initiative Literature Review. Jesse’s writing has appeared in the Journal of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Black Music Research Journal, Ethnomusicology Review, Yearbook for Traditional Music, the Los Angeles Times, and Discourses in African Musicology (Michigan/Maize Books). Forthcoming work will appear in the Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World. He was Editor-in-Chief of Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology from 2006-2008. He holds a B.A. in Sociology from Tufts University and a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, where he currently lectures on global popular music.

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