Episode 6

Reflecting on 50 years at the Women's Freedom Center

February 9, 2024 (prerecorded 2/5): The Women's Freedom Center turns 50 this year. The local domestic and sexual violence organization serves Windham and Southern Windsor Counties. Advocate Shari joins today's show to share how the organization has evolved in its efforts to support survivors and end violence. 

To learn more about the Women's Freedom Center's work: https://womensfreedomcenter.net/

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

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The Montpelier Happy Hour
A show about how things in the State House shake out for the rest of us

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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.