Sigrid Peterson

Sigrid Peterson is a researcher, writer, and illustrator, originally from southern Wisconsin. Her creative work using words and images is informed by her multidisciplinary academic training and her broad professional background. She holds three master’s degrees in human geography, journalism, and library and information studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Sigrid has worked as an urban planner in New York City, a policy professional studying organized labor and low-wage labor markets in the Rust Belt, and a qualitative social science researcher and ethnographer examining the restructuring of higher education, the idea/ideal of the “public good university,” and the concept of academic “interdisciplinary.”

For the past 5 years she has been a public media digital producer for PBS Wisconsin. Her illustrations and cartoons sometimes explore economic class location, material culture, and memory, and other times use observational humor to highlight the absurdities and oddities of being a human.