Curious about the Vermont Community Fellows Program? Here’s your chance to learn more! Join us in the Capitol Food Court at the Vermont State House on May 6 from 4:00pm-6:00pm, where our first cohort of Community Fellows will present an exhibit of their projects. Come meet the Fellows in person and learn what this group of amazing and dedicated people have been working on over the last year.

VCFP supports Vermont residents in conducting collaborative, community-based research on issues that matter most to the people and places they care about. Over the past year plus, Fellows have engaged their communities using ethnographic fieldwork—listening to diverse perspectives, documenting experiences, and working together to imagine and enact positive change.

Following this state house reception the exhibit will be on view to the public beginning June 1 at the Center for Arts and Learning in Montpelier and will later tour the state. Topics this exhibit will explore include Asian Jewish life in Vermont, grassroots solutions to housing insecurity in Halifax, life histories of first-generation Tibetan Americans living in Vermont, perceptions of change and resilience in the Mad River Valley, and more.

This program is made possible thanks to Congressionally Directed Spending secured by Senator Bernie Sanders through the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.