Jenna Spinelle
Democracy Works Podcast HostJenna Spinelle is the Communications Specialist for the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State. She is responsible for shaping all of the institute's external communication, including website content, social media, multimedia, and media outreach.
She holds a B.A. in journalism from Penn State and is an instructor in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.
Prior to joining the McCourtney Institute, Spinelle worked in Penn State's Undergraduate Admissions Office and College of Information Sciences and Technology.
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National Voter Registration Day is September 22. In a normal election year on a college campus, that would mean lots of canvassers with clipboards and… -
The phrase "laboratories of democracy," coined by former U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, is typically used to describe experiments with new… -
We are excited to begin a new school year with a new cohost, Candis Watts Smith, who you may remember from an episode earlier this summer on her book Stay… -
We're digging into the archives this week for another episode on race and criminal justice. Peter K. Enns, associate professor in the Department of… -
This week marks the beginning of our summer break here on Democracy Works. We are going to be rebroadcasting a few episodes from our back catalog — with a… -
Before Democracy Works takes a short summer break, hosts Michael Berkman and Chris Beem answer listener questions about democracy in our current moment.… -
As we bring this season of Democracy Works to a close, we're going to end in a place similar to where we began — discussing the role of political parties… -
We’re bringing you an interview to give some context to the discussions about racism and inequality that are happening in the U.S. right now.We’ll talk… -
This week, we are bringing you another interview that we hope will give some context to the discussions about racism and inequality that are happening in… -
As protests continue throughout the U.S. in the wake of George Floyd's death, we've been thinking a lot about comparisons to the Civil Rights era and…
