To kick off the first episode of our second season, we're ecstatic to welcome the City of Madison’s Deputy Mayor Reuben Sanon. Reuben interned at the Morgridge Center as a campus outreach intern during his undergrad at UW-Madison. After graduating from UW–Madison with degrees in journalism and political science, Reuben worked in the nonprofit sector in Michigan for a few years before returning to the Morgridge Center as the Badger Volunteers Coordinator.

In 2019, he went on to work for the City of Sun Prairie as the communications and diversity coordinator before he was selected by Mayor Sayta Rhodes-Conway to be one of her deputy mayors. Today on GridgeFridge, we'll dive into Reuben’s time at the Morgridge Center, his work across Madison fostering community-based partnerships and ways students can prepare themselves to pursue careers in public service.