When staying home is not staying safe

January 21, 2021: A theme on this show during this pandemic has centered on the spotlight that is COVID-19 and the cracks in society that it is showing us. This pandemic is disproportionately impacting women, financially and when it comes to their safety. So, as we enter the new year, a new Legislative session, and a new Presidential administration, what do we need to do to ensure safety for all?

Karen Tronsgard-Scott of the Vermont Network Against Domestic and Sexual Violence and Shari of the Women's Freedom Center join the show.

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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.