Future of Diverse Communities in Vermont, The

July 11, 2009

Participants:	Brent Bjorkman Jacob Bogre Marge Bruchac More Participants... Wanda Heading-Grant Sheila Morris Tracey Tsugawa Fran Stoddard, moderator
Length:	1:27:48
Next Air Dates:	No upcoming airtimes are currently scheduled

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Tags:

immigration, future, diversity, culture, community

Additional Web Resources:

• Vt. Human Rights Commission
• Vt. Folklife Center
• Assc. of Africans Living in Vt.
• UVM: Multicultural Affairs
• Marge Bruchac

Program Description:

Explore the future of Native Americans from our region as well as new, culturally unique communities who have settled or are now settling in Vermont. How do members of these populations imagine their future in the state, both in the short term and generations hence? Panelists include Brent Bjorkman of the Vermont Folklife Center; Bosnian community leader Mehida Jusufagic; Jacob Bogre of the Association of Africans Living in Vermont; Wanda Heading-Grant, Associate Provost for Multicultural Affairs and Academic Initiatives at the University of Vermont; Abenaki historian and storyteller Marge Bruchac; and Tracey Tsugawa of the Vermont Human Rights Commission.

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