As part of the Let’s Talk Race conversation card project we interviewed incredible people in Vermont who are doing work around each of the issue areas in the Let’s Talk Race card deck (Wealth + Income, The (in)Justice System, Education, Environment, Health, Intersections and Migration). We want to highlight the work of Vermonters in each area to help breathe life into the data, move us beyond statistics, and anchor that issue in positive change.

Harmony Edosomwan

WEALTH + INCOME

Activist, author and owner of Harmony’s Kitchen LLC

Enrique Balcazar

THE (IN)JUSTICE SYSTEM

Farm Worker and Organizer with Migrant Justice

Mia Schultz & Andrew Gilbert

EDUCATION

President of the Rutland Area NAACP, and her son Andrew Gilbert

Dr. Bindu Panikkar

ENVIRONMENT

Researcher and Professor of Environmental and Natural Resources

Dr. Mercedes Avila

HEALTH

Educator, Social Worker, and Researcher on Health Inequities

Beverly Little Thunder

INTERSECTIONS

Founder of Kunsikeya Tamakoce, Two-Spirit enrolled citizen of the Standing Rock Band of Lakota

Phet Keomanyvanh

MIGRATION

Vermont Resident