Episode 21

Shaping the Future one data point at a Time

"What we're trying to do with the Vermont Futures Project is trying to dispel the zero-sum myth.

As if you can only choose the environment or the economy of equity, when really a throng future for Vermont includes all of those things." - Kevin Chu

May 19, 2023 (prerecorded 5/15): Kevin Chu, executive director of the Vermont Futures Project, shares with us a vision for an equitable, sustainable, and resilient economy. But does that vision, and the accompanying data, match the stories we tell about ourselves and Vermont? 

To learn more about the Vermont Futures Project: https://vtfuturesproject.org/

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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.