Presenter Biographies May 8, 2012 Champlain College

Presenter Biographies May 8, 2012 Champlain College

Keynote Speaker

Nicco Mele - Founder, EchoDitto

Nicco is a leading expert in the integration of social media and Web 2.0 with politics, business and communications. As the webmaster for Governor Howard Dean's 2004 presidential race, Nicco and the campaign team pioneered the use of technology and social media that revolutionized political fundraising and American politics. Later that year, Nicco founded EchoDitto, a leading internet strategy consulting company. Now an adjunct faculty at Harvard's Kennedy School, Nicco teaches graduate level classes on the internet and politics. In 2009, Nicco was named the Spring 2009 Visiting Edward R. Murrow Distinguished Lecturer at the Harvard Shorenstein Center for the study of Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Nicco also co-founded , which used the Internet to change the advertising concept by soliciting creative online in an open and collaborative process. He also launched , an online resource for proxy voting and shareholder resolutions. Named in 2003 by Esquire Magazine as one of America`s "best and brightest," Nicco was born in West Africa to foreign service parents. He spent his early years overseas in Asia and Africa before graduating from high school in Malaysia and from the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Nicco's wife, Morra Aarons, is also a well-known internet entrepreneur and blogger. They have two sons: Asa "Ace" Mele and Tom Mele. Nicco serves on the board of several start-ups, including Common Place, BrighterPlanet, TurboVote, and Isis Parenting. He is the co-founder of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, and the author of the forthcoming book The End of Big: The Consequences of Radical Connectivity to be published by St. Martin's Press.

NTIA Presenter

Laura Breeden - Program Director for Public Computing and Broadband Adoption, BTOP, NTIA

Laura Breeden joined NTIA in May 2009 to lead the public computing and sustainable broadband adoption components of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), a $4.7 billion competitive grant program that is part of the Recovery Act. Under her leadership, BTOP has awarded more than $452 million for projects to make 21st century computer and Internet services more available, affordable, and useful. More than $250 million of these funds support "sustainable broadband adoption" projects in low-income urban and rural areas throughout the US. Since 1983, Ms. Breeden has worked in the public, private and non-profit sectors to advance the use of modern digital communications for the public good. Ms. Breeden holds a B.A. in Urban Studies and Education from Oberlin College.

Governor Peter Shumlin

Governor Shumlin's career in public service began almost 30 years ago when at the age of 24 he was elected to serve on the town's select board. In 1990, Governor Madeleine Kunin appointed Peter to fill an empty seat in the Vermont House of Representatives, where he served for three years. He then served Windham County for eight terms in the VT Senate and was elected by his colleagues to lead the Senate as President pro tem the majority of that time. Peter was the longtime co-directoralong with his brotherof Putney Student Travel and National Geographic Student Expeditions, a company that sends students on educational programs and service projects across the globe. He is also a partner in several real estate companies that provide housing and commercial space in southeast Vermont.

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Digital Leadership Panel - Creating Economic Opportunities through Connectivity

Moderator: Patrick Ripley, VT Small Business Development Center Business Specialist Patrick spent many years writing, editing and managing various traditional media outlets before turning his focus to modern media in the mid 2000's. Since then, he has written, edited and managed thousands of pieces of online content and oversaw the development, creation, design and management of multiple websites and social media campaigns. Most recently, Patrick oversaw digital strategies for two Hearst Television stations that showed page view growth in the millions during his time there. Patrick now advises business owners on digital strategies for the Vermont Small Business Development Center.

Panelist: Missy Parks - IST Enterprise Technology Learning Director, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Missy Parks manages a technology learning team that supports multiple business units and project teams. Her passion is enabling best use of desktop and business applications through skills development, performance support and process improvement. Missy has worked with computer learners at McKinsey & Company, National Geographic, The U.S. State Department, The World Bank, Ben & Jerry's, Stonyfield Farms, Twincraft Soap, Rhino Foods, Vermont Technical College and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Inc. A top-rated classroom instructor, Missy's computer courses have also sold nationally.

Panelist: Halley Silver - Director of Online Services, King Arthur Flour Company Halley Silver grew up in Cleveland, Ohio and London, England, and is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Since 1995 she has managed online development at several companies, including the former Excite@Home and VeriSign. Halley joined King Arthur Flour in October 2007, and as director of online services has led the Web team through three major site redesigns; the launch of the company's Baking Banter blog; and numerous web technology changes. She has also guided King Arthur Flour's social media efforts and the company's very successful email program. In her free time, Halley built, launched and managed , a free Web-based equestrian-event management service.

Panelist: Charles Curtis - CEO, Draker Laboratories Charles `Chach' Curtis joined Draker as CEO in Fall 2009. He brings over 20 years of experience in corporate finance and venture backed growth companies, and over 10 years of experience in renewable energy. Since joining Draker, he has restructured the management team, raised additional capital, expanded the product and service offering, entered new markets (including international), and increased the staff from 8 to over 50 employees. As a result of these changes, year-over-year revenues have grown by 250 percent in each of the past two years. In 2012, Chach was named the Small Business Administration Vermont Small Business Person of the Year for his outstanding leadership at Draker. He holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. Chach lives in Waitsfield, VT with his wife and two daughters.

Panelists: Sabrina & Lionel Morrison ? Founding Partners, Porter Brook Group Since 2009, Sabrina Morrison has managed and created design projects for clients nationwide as a principal of the Porter Brook Group based in northern Vermont. She specializes in designing custom interactive websites and creating high impact print materials. With a solid foundation in Web 2.0 technology and function, Sabrina also prepares social media plans that deliver new connections and help monetize marketing campaigns for businesses of any size. Sabrina has shared her passion for animation web tools as Adjunct Faculty at Flagler College, St. Augustine, Florida, where she attained her B.A. in Graphic Design and Fine Art. She lives in East Hardwick, Vermont, with her son and husband. Lionel Morrison is a founding partner of the Porter Brook Group and has worked as a freelance programmer, software developer and network manager for national corporations for more than a decade. He specializes in the development, launch and maintenance of Web technologies for leading culinary and educational book publishers, as well as many food distributors in the United States.

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Digital Leadership Panel - Connecting Communities

Moderator: Scott Campitelli, Executive Director, RETN Scott has lead the northwestern Vermont consortium called RETNRegional Educational Technology Networkfor the past 14 years, collaborating with community media centers across the state to develop connectivity among large and small cities and towns through the Vermont Access Network. RETN is the only Vermont cable access organization with an education-only focus, and serves twelve towns and cities from Essex to Vergennes. Campitelli led the development of the Vermont Media Exchange a digital program-sharing system among all Vermont local TV channels. He worked with staff at RETN to create the website, , in order to archive and make accessible programs from 21 years of content, originating from the 36 K-12 schools, five colleges, the University of Vermont, and numerous local non-profits with educational missions in the Champlain Valley.

Panelist: Michael Wood-Lewis - Founder, Front Porch Forum Michael Wood-Lewis and his wife Valerie founded Front Porch Forum in their Burlington, Vermont neighborhood in 2006. FPF hosts regional networks of online neighborhood forums that cover 40 percent of Vermont and 36,000 households subscribe. The resulting news sharing and community building helped land a prestigious Knight News Challenge award. Previously, Michael led an innovative trade association of New England utilities, and before that developed environmental technologies in Washington, DC. Michael serves many roles locally with youth sports, town committees, charities and church. He earned an M.S. in engineering from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, as well as an MBA.

Panelist: Kristen Hughes - Bent Northrup Library Community Librarian Kristen is the community librarian at the Bent Northrop Memorial Library in Fairfield. She began working at the library in 2006 and was the only staff member until June of 2011. The library moved into a glorious new building in 2011, and they have seen a substantial increase in community use. In additional to her part-time community librarian position, Kristen also sits on the Fairfield Town Grant Writer Committee, holds the market coordinator post for the Fairfield Farmer's Market Online, helps with the town newsletter and works with the Fairfield eVermont steering committee. She is originally from Cleveland, Ohio where she taught in the Cleveland Public Schools as a classroom teacher and preschool teacher mentor. Outside of work Kristen also has six year old twins, a husband and young Lab who really keep her busy.

Panelist: Susan Clark - Middlesex Town Moderator, Author Susan Clark is the town moderator for Middlesex, Vermont and has chaired the Middlesex Town Meeting Solutions Committee for 10 years. The Solutions Committee is an ad hoc group created to improve the community's citizen participation, developing remote town meeting participation and a citizens' "operator's manual." She has also been an advocate for new legislation to improve town meeting participation and process. Susan is a professional facilitator, writer and educator. With Frank Bryan, Susan co-authored All Those In Favor: Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community; she is now working on Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community and Bringing Decision Making Back Home (due out in Fall, 2012, Chelsea Green Publishing).

Panelist: Lauren-Glenn Davitian - Executive Director, CCTV Center for Media and Democracy Lauren-Glenn Davitian is widely credited with establishing strong community access to cable television throughout Vermont. She is a well-known spokeswoman on behalf of free speech and open networks locally and in the state capital. She is founder and executive director of CCTV's Center for Media and Democracy and oversees Channel 17/Town Meeting Television, Common Good Vermont (a Vermont nonprofit capacity building project) and CCTV Productions & Technical Services. She is a founding member of the Vermont Access Networka trade group of 27 public access television centers in Vermontand currently serves on the editorial board of the Alliance for Community Media's Community Media Review and NTEN (). Lauren-Glenn is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a B.A. in Anthropology, Phi Beta Kappa, 1982.

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Digital Leadership Panel - Building Digital Literacy

Moderator: Martha Reid, Vermont State Librarian Martha (Marty) Reid was appointed as state librarian at the Vermont Department of Libraries in August 2008 after working for more than 30 years in public libraries in Virginia, Connecticut, Colorado and Vermont. Much of her work is currently focused on library technology, networks and e-services, including the Department of Libraries' partnership on two federally-funded BTOP grant projects: (1) e-Vermont Community Broadband Project, and (2) Vermont FiberConnect (Vermont Telecommunications Authority and Sovernet) which will bring high-speed fiber connectivity to 42 public libraries and over 200 other Vermont community anchor institutions. She has a degree in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin and serves as president of the Vermont Public Library Foundation, a non-profit organization that offers competitive grants to Vermont public libraries. Marty lives in South Burlington.

Panelist: Joyce Judy - President, Community College of Vermont Joyce Judy became president of the Community College of Vermont (CCV) in March of 2010, after serving as Interim CCV president since June of 2009. She began her career at CCV in 1983 as a coordinator of Academic Services, subsequently served as dean of students, and became the College's first provost in 2001. Joyce has been instrumental in the organizational development of CCV for nearly three decades, and is the driving force behind many of CCV's prominent partnerships and programs. She helped develop a partnership between CCV and Johnson State College to deliver JSC's External Degree Program, which offers bachelor degree options to students statewide. She led the development of CCV's dual enrollment program for high school students, and spearheaded the Governor's Career Ready Certificate, which now provides workforce readiness training throughout Vermont. Joyce currently serves on many boards, including the Center for Financial Literacy at Champlain College, the New England Board of Higher Education and Vermont Campus Compact.

Panelist: Barry Lampke - Director, Champlain Initiative As director of the Champlain Initiative for the past four years, Barry coordinated the Changing Face of Chittenden County project. One of his areas of focus was exploring how communities can close the digital divide through digital mentoring. Previously, he was the development and communications director for Smart Growth Vermont, marketing project manager with the Vermont Energy Investment Corporation and executive director of the Association of Vermont Recyclers.

Panelist: Angela Talbert - Fine Arts Graduate, Johnson State College Angela Talbert is a recent graduate of the fine arts program at Johnson State College. She completed two years at CCV Burlington before moving on to Johnson State, where she finished her degree in fall of 2011. She was born and raised in northern Vermont and enjoys outdoor adventures in her home state, as well as traveling around the country and abroad. She is an artist in many mediums including photography, printmaking, illustration, bookmaking and jewelry. She has been an Internet intern for e-Vermont since Fall 2011 and has been working in the Morristown Centennial Library in Morristown, the Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol, and the Varnum Memorial Library in Jeffersonville.

Panelist: Dan Lucier - Broadband Organizer, Vermont Telephone Company Dan is a community broadband organizer at Vermont Telephone Company. Through his work at VTel, Dan has conducted hundreds of computer training workshops and one-on-one sessions with individuals in several Vermont communities. Most of these trainings occur at libraries, community centers, and at a Labor Department Resource Center. Before joining VTel in August 2011, Dan taught computers courses and other subjects at a small New Hampshire school for students with special behavioral needs. VTel hired Dan to help develop the company's growing digital literacy outreach efforts.

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Digital Leadership Panel - Education Innovation

Moderator: Tim Donovan - Chancellor, Vermont State Colleges Tim Donovan is the chancellor of the Vermont State Colleges (VSC), the system of five public colleges that collectively enroll more than 12,000 students in locations within 25 miles of 95 percent of Vermont's population. He also serves as chair of Vermont's Prek-16 Council, which was created by Act 133 (2010). Over the course of the three decades, he served the VSC and in a variety of leadership roles. In 2001, Tim was appointed president of the Community College of Vermont. During his eight-year tenure the College's enrollment nearly doubled to become Vermont's second largest college, and its reputation was enhanced as a leader of higher education innovation in a number of areas including use of technology, innovative program delivery and creative partnerships.

Panelist: Bill Anton - Principal, The Dover School Bill Anton is the principal of The Dover School in Dover, southern Vermont. He started his educational career in North Carolina where he served as a third grade teacher and an elementary assistant principal. Prior to his career in education, Bill ran a microbrewery, founded a T-shirt company and worked as a private investigator. The Dover School currently uses SMARTBoards, SMARTCameras, Discovery Education and Science Techbook as cornerstones of technology integration. The School is piloting the use of the CommonSense Media Curriculum to address media and digital literacy. In June, Bill will complete training to be a National Principal Mentor. He continues to be curious about thoughtful technology integration, brain-based learning and empowering his colleagues.

Panelist: Frank Gerdeman - Deputy Regional Manager, Vermont Adult Learning Frank Gerdeman has been involved with non-traditional education for over 20 years. For the past eight years he has worked for Vermont Adult Learninga member of Learning Worksas a classroom teacher, a learning center coordinator and currently as the deputy regional manager for Chittenden County. In addition, he has played a key role in the implementation and evolution of the High School Completion Program, which allows young adult Vermonters the opportunity to create a flexible pathway to high school graduation. Frank realized the access, collaboration and resource multiplying value of integrated technology early on and has become a leader in implementing the use of innovative and emerging technologies in the adult education system. His efforts include: introducing wide spread wiki use; acquiring and using distance learning systems; online learning, testing and assessment; and cloud-based collaborations with staff and students.

Panelist: Geoff Gevalt - Founder, Young Writer's Project Geoffrey Gevalt is founder and director of Young Writers Project, an innovative Vermont nonprofit with a mission to build a generation of better writers. For 33 years, Gevalt was a journalist who won numerous awards as a writer and editor mostly with newspapers. For two years, he was a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in Beat Reporting. The Young Writers Project began as a newspaper feature in 2003, became an independent nonprofit in 2006 with a founding grant from Vermont Business Roundtable and now is a multi-faceted digital education organization that works with 45+ schools, thousands of students and hundreds of teachers each year. Each week, YWP publishes selected student work in 13 newspapers and on Vermont Public Radio's website. Since 2006, YWP has received nearly 30,000 submissions and published the best work of over 4,000 students

Panelist: Heather Chirtea - Founder & Executive Director, Digital Wish Heather is Digital Wish's founder and executive director. Previously she was the president of Tool Factory, an educational software publisher, and traveled throughout the United State to conduct over 400 seminars on classroom technology integration. Heather created Digital Wish to empower teachers to solve their own technology shortfalls at the local level. Heather holds a B.S. degree in communications and operations management from Syracuse University, and has co-authored five books on classroom technology. She serves on the boards for VITA-Learn (VT) and New England ISTE technology associations. In the past three years Digital Wish has placed over $10 million in technology into schools, and has granted over 26,000 teacher technology wishes.

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Break Out Group Facilitators

Establishing a New Foundation for Business in the Digital Age Facilitator: Patricia Moulton Powden - Deputy Secretary, VT Agency of Commerce and Community Development Patricia Moulton Powden was appointed as the deputy secretary of the Agency of Commerce and Community Development and director of Economic Development by Governor Shumlin in November 2010, starting her post in January 2011. Pat also served as commissioner of the Vermont Department of Labor for four years, appointed by Governor James Douglas in August 2006. Prior to her position as commissioner, Governor Douglas appointed Ms. Powden to serve as the full-time chair of the Vermont Natural Resources Board and its predecessor, the Vermont Environmental Board. Before her environmental regulation and policy work, Pat spent 22 years in the practice of economic development on the local, regional and state levels. In 1990, she was appointed deputy commissioner of the Vermont Department of Economic Development by Governor Snelling and subsequently appointed commissioner of Economic Development by Governor Dean. Pat also ran her own economic development consulting company for several years. Pat is married to Timothy Powden and resides in South Londonderry, Vermont.

Building the Local Economy with Online Tools Facilitator: Linda Rossi - Associate State Director, Vermont Small Business Development Center Linda Rossi, associate state director of the Vermont Small Business Development Center, is responsible for marketing, public relations, training and development of new programs for the organization and personnel management of the advising staff. She represents VtSBDC on several statewide committees aimed at strengthening small businesses in Vermont. Linda is a certified facilitator of several entrepreneurship curriculums, including FastTrac, NxLevel and REAL. She started with VtSBDC as a business advisor, helping small businesses with planning, marketing and finance. Linda has over twenty years of experience in both large and small companies. Linda earned her B.S. at the University of Hartford in Business Administration and Marketing. She is an officer of the Vermont Business Education Corporation, and is active in her community as a director and coach of the Rutland Figure Skating Club, and is chairperson of the Sudbury Road Race Committee.

Sharing Local News: Neighborhood Forums and Citizen Journalism Facilitator: Anne Galloway - Founder and Editor, Anne Galloway is the founder and editor of and the executive director of Vermont Journalism Trust. She has worked as a reporter and editor in Vermont for 17 years. She moved to her husband's home state, Vermont, in 1988 and took a job as a staff writer for the Hardwick Gazette and then the Barton Chronicle. For many years, Anne was a contributing writer for Seven Days Newspaper, an alternative weekly in Burlington, and a visual arts reviewer for the Times Argus. Her reporting has appeared in The New York Times, the New York Daily News, Vermont Life and City Pages (Minneapolis). She is a member of Investigative Reporters and Editors. In 2011, she was named "Best Blogger" by readers of Seven Days Newspaper. A series she edited in 2008 won a New England Newspaper Association Award, Public Occurrences Award and a New England Society of Newspaper Editors Award. She won the Vermont Press Association's John D. Donoghue Award for arts writing in 2004. She has a B.A. in English literature from the University of Kentucky.

Accessing Health, Medical and Social Services Online Facilitator: Helen Labun Jordan - Director, e-Vermont Community Broadband Project Helen moved to e-Vermont after several years with the Vermont Agency of Agriculture where she was instrumental in developing local and regional food systems through a variety of programs. She also brings a background in federal and state policy issues, as well as grant writing and management. Helen earned her B.A. from Princeton University and a M.Sc. in Community Development and Applied Economics at the University of Vermont.

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Break Out Group Facilitators

Engaging Citizens in State and Local Government Facilitator: Mark Snelling - President, Snelling Center for Government Mark is the volunteer president of the Snelling Center. He is also president of Green Leaf Metals, a distributor of copper and brass wire products. He has owned and operated a number of businesses in the ski, bike and hardware industries. Mark served as chair of the Vermont Governor's Council of Environmental Advisors, and chaired the Governor's Commission on Downtowns and Growth Centers. He has previously served on the boards of Key Bank Vermont, the Vermont Land Trust, Medical Center Hospital of Vermont, and as Chair of Housing Vermont and the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps. Mark resides in Starksboro, VT with his wife Linda.

Building Digital Literacy Facilitator: Karen Marshall - Chief, ConnectVT Karen L. Marshall is the chief of ConnectVT, senior advisor to Governor Peter Shumlin and responsible for leading the State of Vermont's initiative to achieve universal availability of broadband and mobile service by 2013. She works within the Agency of Administration to provide strategic direction, policy and accountability for achieving goals with various stakeholders in the telecommunications and electrical utility sectors. She has a wealth of private sector experience having served in various roles to define and lead change in organizations. Her early career spanned 25 years in media in various roles including: VP Northern New England for Comcast Spotlight, the advertising division of Comcast Cable and vice president/Vermont for Clear Channel Communications where she managed 15 radio stations.

Bringing Technology in the Classroom Facilitator: Eric Bird - Project Coordinator and Lead Trainer, Digital Wish After teaching grades 4 and 6 for 12 years in Blue Ribbon and California Distinguished Schools in Southern California, Eric Bird brought his experience, knowledge, and passion gained from working in the classroom to Digital Wish's School Modernization Initiative. His current role with e-Vermont is to bring 1:1 computing technology to classrooms and communities in selected Vermont towns and provide essential training so that students, teachers, and parents can use the Internet more effectively. As a technology trainer, Eric has traveled the country to train fellow educators, administrators and district technology experts using creative, entertaining, and easy-to-use cross-curricular technology such as podcasting, digital cameras, digital video, and numerous educational software and cloud-based programs. In addition, Eric helped design hands-on seminars for educational conferences and co-authored a workbook on classroom technology.

Developing a 21st Century Workforce Facilitator: Elaine Young, PhD - Champlain College Elaine Young is an Associate Professor of Marketing who teaches courses in Marketing, Internet-Marketing, NonProfit and Social Marketing and Marketing Management. She has a Ph.D. in Organizational Management from Capella University. Her dissertation research examined technology use and adoption by college students, and she developed a teaching model for faculty to follow when teaching a technology application in a classroom environment. She also holds a M.S. in Internet Strategy Management from Marlboro College, a B.S. in Communication and Public Relations from SUNY Brockport and an A.S. in Communication from Genesee Community College. She has over ten years of experience in the marketing and public affairs professions, specializing in non-profits. She has been teaching at Champlain since 2000.

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Vermont's Digital Future Presentation

Mary Evslin - Co-Founder, NG Advantage and Director, Evslin Family Foundation

Mary Evslin is a co-founder of NG Advantage, a newly formed natural gas provider bringing CNG to companies not on a pipeline. She is on the board of Champlain College and was the first chair of the board of the Vermont Telecommunications Authority. Mary was a founder and VP of Marketing and Customer Success at ITXC, a global wholesale telephone company sending calls over the Internet. In 2002 ITXC was the Fastest Growing Technology Company in North America ? according to Deloitte & Touche. Mary developed and led the company's marketing and PR globally from start-up stage, through IPO and secondary. Prior to that she worked at Attachmate Software in Seattle, and even earlier served as VP of Marketing at Solutions Inc. Solutions was a Vermont company and a PC and Mac software developer and retailer. Earlier in her career she worked in the Vermont Office of then Congressman Jim Jeffords and of the nonprofit Vermont Dental Care.

Plenary Session Facilitator

Paul Costello - Executive Director, Vermont Council on Rural Development

Paul has served as the executive director of the Vermont Council on Rural Development since 2000. VCRD is an independent non-profit organization that helps rural communities build priorities, set action plans and build connections to resources. VCRD is also a key leader in ensuring that the rural perspective is reflected in Vermont's public policy. Paul is a UVM alumnus, holds a PhD in Intellectual History from McGill University and is the author of a book on world historical theories of the 20th Century. In addition to his work at VCRD, Paul serves on the Housing Vermont board of directors and as president emeritus of the national Partners for Rural America.

Conference Coordinator

Joanna Cummings - e-Government Coordinator, Snelling Center for Government

Joanna Cummings is The Snelling Center's e-government coordinator, one of several collaborating partners with the e-Vermont Community Broadband Project. Previous to her work at the Snelling Center, she was the director of communications for Mountain Lake PBS, a public television station in New York. Joanna's career in communications and public relations also includes several years of public service with the State of Vermont, for the Department of Health and the Agency of Agriculture. Prior to her communications career, Joanna was a Horticulturist and certified Master Gardener, and worked as an estate gardener, greenhouse manager, florist, landscaper and market garden entrepreneur. She graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. degree in Horticulture, and received a M.S. degree in Environmental Communications from Antioch University/New England. Joanna is on the board of directors for VCAM, Vermont Community Access Media, and has served on the conservation boards for the towns of Richmond and Burlington, and on the energy committee for Essex, Vermont.

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