Middlebury Students Were Pumped for the Election
DanizaTazabekova was a speaker at a community conversation hosted at Town Hall Theater, where over 50 people gathered to discuss the results of the elections and next steps.
DanizaTazabekova was a speaker at a community conversation hosted at Town Hall Theater, where over 50 people gathered to discuss the results of the elections and next steps.
MiddVotes, a nonpartisan student organization dedicated to fostering student civic engagement, has been working diligently to aid students in registering to vote alongside supporting civic education on campus.
At this year’s Clifford Symposium, “Home: Housing and Belonging in Middlebury and Beyond”, participants engaged in discussions on how to support Vermont communities through the lens of the ongoing housing crises.
Matt Lawrence, Associate Professor of Sociology and Academic Director of Privilege & Poverty, talks with former P&P interns Ellie Cady ’25.5 and Freddi Mitchell ’25 about their involvement in the Clifford Symposium on Home, Housing and Belonging in Middlebury and Beyond.
LiM participants work with teachers to develop presentations that align with their classroom objectives and deepen students’ understanding of other languages and cultures.
New Community Project’s Sustainable Living Center focuses efforts on finding local, sustainable solutions to address rural poverty, food insecurity, and energy poverty within the community.
Dani Skor `20 reflects on her time in the Language in Motion program, and how it led to her career as an educator.
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One initiative supported by the collaborative is the center’s Privilege & Poverty summer internship program, an eight-week experience that allows students to think deeply about the causes and consequences of economic inequality through placements at Addison County organizations.
Support from the newly formed Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation is being used to enhance the work of students in the college’s Privilege and Poverty (P&P) summer internship program.