Essential Vermonters

May 15, 2020: As Vermont enters its COVID-19 recovery phase, communities look to the future. In today's episode, Emilie, Olga, and their guests explore questions around resiliency, equity, and moving from crisis mode to creativity.

Paul Costello of the Vermont Council on Rural Development notes that "resiliency is a work in progress." Xusana Davis, the Racial Equity Director for the State of Vermont, asks, Do we consider people as "essential to the bottom line, or to the fabric of our state?"

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The Montpelier Happy Hour

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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...".

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.