Episode 22

COVID-19 and the "ominous silence" of domestic violence

June 5, 2020: "Stay home, stay safe," was the way most Vermonters protected the community from the spread of COVID-19.

But, home is not a safe place for Vermonters experiencing intimate partner violence. Today's guests highlight how privilege, the gender-based wage gap, and patriarchy drive abuse. Guests are Karen Tronsgard-Scott, Executive Director of the Vermont Network Against Domestic Violence and Shari, an advocate with the Women's Freedom Center.

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker

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Olga Peters

Producer and host Olga is a journalist by day and a screenwriter by night. On the Montpelier Happy Hour she combines a newshound's doggedness with a fiction writer's sense of "what if...".
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Emilie Kornheiser

Regular contributor Emilie Kornheiser represents Windham District 2-1 in the Vermont House of Representatives (that’s Brattleboro.) She always appreciates an opportunity to unpack the stories that drive us and hopes her gravestone will read “she asked good questions.” You can find more about her and her work in the legislature at emiliekornheiser.org.