Episode 40

Redefining dignity and the nature of work

October 1, 2021: Today, we focus on W-O-R-K.

For more than a year, Emilie and Olga have discussed COVID, how it has highlighted cracks our systems, and our dreams for society post-COVID.

The ongoing pandemic has shown many of us that how we spend our 9-to-5 (or much more) isn't well, working. This conversation was inspired in part by an essay by Jonathan Malesic that appeared in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/23/opinion/covid-return-to-work-rto.html

Theme music by Red Heart the Ticker: http://rhtt.net

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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.