Team Bubbler
Team Bubbler
The Bubbler at Madison Public Library team is ever-growing and evolving in order to reflect our changing community.
Think of the core Bubbler staff members below as your community connectors!
Core Bubbler Staff
TRENT MILLER
Bubbler Program + Gallery Coordinator
Trent Miller is an artist, curator, and the Head Bubblerarian at Madison Public Library! He was recognized by Library Journal as a 2015 Mover & Shaker for his work on the Bubbler Program. Miller centers his energies on establishing the public library as a platform for creative and innovative art events, shows, and workshops with an emphasis on local creators.
tmiller@madisonpubliclibrary.org
REBECCA MILLERJOHN
Youth Services Librarian
Rebecca Millerjohn is a Youth Services Librarian (with a focus on teaching and learning) at Madison Public Library. Previously a six year classroom teacher, her library work focuses on school-age programming, educator support, and maker education with MPL's Bubbler program. As the Bubbler’s project manager for their Maker Corps and Making Spaces initiatives, she loves sock monsters, power tools, paper circuits, and when kids get those little scrunched faces that show they are THINKING.
rmillerjohn@madisonpubliclibrary.org
JESSE VIEAU
Teen Services Librarian
Jesse Vieau utilizes the Bubbler program model to connect teenagers to a wide range of people and resources in the community. As the library’s project manager for our Making Justice and Media Academy initiatives, his larger goal is to work with teachers, artists, and other community stakeholders to continue building platforms for teenagers to engage in hands-on learning and to share their voices—especially those who are at-risk or court-involved. He was recognized by Library Journal as a 2017 Mover & Shaker for his work on the Making Justice program.
jesse@madisonpubliclibrary.org
NATE CLARK
Digital Media Instructor
Nate Clark is an animator and filmmaker working in both the video game and film industry. He has worked on award-winning games and films, and local independent films in the city of Madison. Professional projects Nate has worked on have been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, the BAFTA Award for Best Special Visual Effects, Game of the Year, Teen Choice Award for Choice Summer Movie: Drama, and the BFCA Critics Choice Award for Best Visual Effects. Nate has been working with the Madison Public Library since 2012, and in the Media Lab at the Madison Public Library since it's inception in 2013.
nclark@madisonpubliclibrary.org
ROB FRANKLIN
Media Projects Bubblerarian
Rob Franklin, also known as Rob Dz, is the Media Projects Bubblerarian for the Madison Public Library. As a Kennedy Center certified teaching artist for the Making Justice program, his primary residency focus is on Hip Hop, Personal Branding, and Spoken Word as a positive form of self-expression. Rob has held residencies with Madison youth in elementary, middle, and high schools, community centers, the Dane County Juvenile Detention Center and Juvenile Shelter Home, Neighborhood Intervention Program, Madison Jazz Consortium and with The Black Star Drumline. As a musician, he has performed with the likes of Nas, Eminem, Common, Talib Kweli, Dead Prez, and others. He recently was inducted into the American Folklife Center at the Library Of Congress and The National Museum of African American History and Culture as a member of The Story Corps program.
rfranklin@madisonpubliclibrary.org
CARLEE LATIMER
Bubbler Program Administrator
Carlee Latimer is the Madison Public Library Bubbler Program Administrator who gets to collaborate with all sorts of wonderful people, connecting them to the library and to one another. Carlee has worked in a variety of nonprofit, school, and community settings throughout Madison. Her passions and projects form an intersection between community connections and learning through arts and creativity.
clatimer@madisonpubliclibrary.org
Portraits illustrated by RAD Illustrates
