Speaking & Advisory — Jane Muschenetz

Jane Muschenetz brings an MIT and Bain & Co-trained analyst's precision and a nationally recognized poet's acuity — with the lived experience of a refugee from Soviet Ukraine, to the same stage. Her talks and workshops bridge disciplinary and cultural divides with empathy, humor, and intellectual honesty.

She invites lyrical resonance and connection between differing points of view into corporate, academic, and policy contexts and rigorous empirical thinking into literary and cultural spaces.

Author of POWER POINT (2025 National Press Women Communications Prize) and All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents (San Diego Writers Festival 2024 Poetry Collection of the Year). Based in San Diego, with regular travel to Europe. Available for keynotes, panels, readings, workshops, and interdisciplinary programming — in person and virtually.

Collaboration Highlights

Mingei International Museum — Keynote, Woman Powered
University of California, San Diego — Session host and performer, CODA Festival
Wende Museum — Featured performer, Born in the USSR
The San Diego Union Tribune Festival of Books — Featured speaker, Poetry Stage
The San Diego Writers Festival — Program director, Poetry
Jewish Federation of San Diego — Lions of Judah Keynote, Immigrant Impact

"Jane was an exceptional speaker — engaging, warm, and remarkably effective. Our Lions of Judah attendees (accomplished women with high expectations) were moved and inspired. She created a sense of intimate conversation with a large group, and the dialogue she sparked continued well beyond the event."
— Debbie Tirouda, Events Organizer, Jewish Federation of San Diego

"Jane is an effective and admirable leader. Hers is a compelling voice for the power of art."
— Marni Freedman, Director, San Diego Writers Festival

"I am consistently impressed by Jane's ability to build coalitions and genuine connection between people from vastly different backgrounds and disciplines."
— Jason Magabo Perez, PhD, San Diego Poet Laureate 2023–24