10 min
A Family Commitment: Generations of New Jersey Folk Festival Students New Jersey Folk Podcast
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- Society & Culture
NJFF is the largest student-run folk festival in the country. It has operated out of the American Studies Department at Rutgers University New Brunswick since its founding in 1975. Since then, countless students have interned with the festival, learning valuable skills, and developing relationships with mentors and peers. The people behind the festival are what makes it so unique—the people you don’t see on the stage or on the craft path but who are indispensable pieces of this puzzle. Through this podcast episode, you will meet two of these people, a mother and daughter, both Board of Trustees members, who have spent the last few decades volunteering their time, talents, and enthusiasm to the New Jersey Folk Festival.
Gillian Dauer is a 2022 graduate of Rutgers University New Brunswick. She interned with the New Jersey Folk Festival from the fall of 2019 to the spring of 2022 in several roles.
Elena Rossi is the President of the New Jersey Folk Festival Board of Trustees, and mother to Catherine and Gabrielle Rossi. Elena has been heavily involved with the Folk Festival since her daughters served as interns, but she has been a fan of the festival since its inception in 1975. Gabrielle Rossi is a member of the Board of Trustees. She was a student intern with the festival at Rutgers from 2010 to 2014. She went on to earn a Master’s in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University, and is now a doctoral student at Rutgers-Newark in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Gabrielle is also the founder of The Dream Project, which facilitates cross country fundraising bike rides for college students.
For more information about the New Jersey Folk Festival 2023 please visit our website at: https://www.njfolkfest.org/ or join us on our social media pages linked below!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/njfolkfest/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NJFolkFestival/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/njfolkfest
NJFF is the largest student-run folk festival in the country. It has operated out of the American Studies Department at Rutgers University New Brunswick since its founding in 1975. Since then, countless students have interned with the festival, learning valuable skills, and developing relationships with mentors and peers. The people behind the festival are what makes it so unique—the people you don’t see on the stage or on the craft path but who are indispensable pieces of this puzzle. Through this podcast episode, you will meet two of these people, a mother and daughter, both Board of Trustees members, who have spent the last few decades volunteering their time, talents, and enthusiasm to the New Jersey Folk Festival.
Gillian Dauer is a 2022 graduate of Rutgers University New Brunswick. She interned with the New Jersey Folk Festival from the fall of 2019 to the spring of 2022 in several roles.
Elena Rossi is the President of the New Jersey Folk Festival Board of Trustees, and mother to Catherine and Gabrielle Rossi. Elena has been heavily involved with the Folk Festival since her daughters served as interns, but she has been a fan of the festival since its inception in 1975. Gabrielle Rossi is a member of the Board of Trustees. She was a student intern with the festival at Rutgers from 2010 to 2014. She went on to earn a Master’s in Nonprofit Management from Columbia University, and is now a doctoral student at Rutgers-Newark in the School of Public Affairs and Administration. Gabrielle is also the founder of The Dream Project, which facilitates cross country fundraising bike rides for college students.
For more information about the New Jersey Folk Festival 2023 please visit our website at: https://www.njfolkfest.org/ or join us on our social media pages linked below!
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/njfolkfest/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NJFolkFestival/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/njfolkfest
10 min