BETH
JONES
Author
Educator
Journalist
Storyteller
Digital Creator
Beth Jones
CREATOR/WRITER/EDUCATOR
DIGITAL STORYTELLER:
My internationally exhibited digital stories address issues ranging from the impact of found objects and small moments, to the effect of deep time, environmental trauma, and human consequence on the environment. My travel experiences to edges of the world (Svalbard, Micronesia, Samburu, Wakayama, among others), inform the way I write about and visualize the natural world, human engagement, and their intersections.
LINK HERE TO SEE NEW BEDFORD IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND, CITY WIDE GEOLOCATED STORYTELLING PROJECT (Created as Artist-in-Residence at New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park)
JOURNALIST/AUTHOR:
I am a storyteller, book author, nationally published journalist, and versatile communications writer with over 30 years of experience.
I co-authored an award-winning memoir with Little, Brown & Company (published in six countries) and contributed to a book of essays published by University Press of New England.
I write for The Boston Globe and have written for The New York Times, Harvard School of Education, Boston University, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Scientific American, Marie Claire, WGBH Boston, NOVA, Root Capital, Ceres, WBUR Boston, New Hampshire Public Radio, and many other outlets.
EDUCATOR:
I have been an educator in the field of Behavioral Health for over 25 years. As the director of the Education Initiative at the Mind/Body Medical Institute (now the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital), I trained hundreds of educators and students from pre-kindergarten through college in urban, suburban, public and private schools, providing effective interventions for decreasing stress and its symptoms while improving self regulation, attention, focus, executive function, communication, and increasing the capacity for personal, professional, academic, and interpersonal success. I work with schools pre-kindergarten through high school.
I currently teach for Boston University's Prison Education Program (PEP) in both men's and women's carceral facilities.
Create,Write,Educate
EXHIBITIONS
Video Artist: Shadow Forests: Multi-media exhibition
at Sample Studios Gallery
Cork, Ireland - March/April 2022
Solo Exhibition of Two Digital Stories
Chapel Hill School of Art, Macroom, Ireland
March 2022
Exhibition at Espace des Femmes Gallery
Paris, France - June 2022
RESIDENCIES:
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New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park, MA; Oct-Dec 2024
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Joshua Tree Highlands Artist Residency, CA; January-March 2024
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Fundación Valparaíso, Mojacár Spain; Date TBD
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US National Park Artists' Residency, New Bedford, MA 2024
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Paleobotany supervised residency with William Stein, Ph.D. & Chris Berry, Ph.D.Catskill Mountains, 2021-2022
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The Arctic Circle Art & Science Residency, Svalbard, High Arctic, June, 2019
CONFERENCES:
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Presenter at 11th Annual International Digital Storytelling Conference - Radical Listening: Story Work for a Just Future. Smithsonian Institution, University of Maryland and Montgomery College, June 2023
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Education conferences listed upon request
REPORTER/EDUCATOR/EDITOR
Instructor for Boston University
Prison Education Program (PEP)
Adjunct Professor in BU's matriculation program
for incarcerated individuals in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Corrections. (on going)
Workshop Facilitator for StoryCenter, Berkeley CA
Providing writing workshops to support self-expression, creative practice, and community building through writing for short-form digital media. (on going)
Reporter
The Boston Globe, The New York Times, Communications Writer for Harvard School of Education, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston University, Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, and additional national non-profits including WGBH Boston (NOVA, WGBH Education Foundation), Ceres, Root Capital, Gateways. (2013-present)
Editor
Harvard School of Education, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frontline Education, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and other non-profit web content clients
(2013-present)
AUTHOR
2007 - 2013
Three Wishes: A True Story (2009, with Little, Brown & Company, Inc.),
Make Mine a Double: Why Women Like Us Like to Drink, or Not (2011, University Press of New England, contributor)
BLOGGER
Blogger for Huffington Post, Scientific American, Marie Claire, and many other publications and on-line verticals. Radio producer for New Hampshire Public Radio
PROGRAM DIRECTOR/CONSULTANT
Education Consultant for public and private schools in behavioral medicine/mindfulness interventions for educators and students pre-kindergarten-high school in both public
and private school settings. (1994-2020)
Director, Education Initiative, Mind/Body Medical Institute,
Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. (1994-2000)
Education
Boston University
Master of Arts
Bennington College
Bachelor of Arts