Clifford Symposium: Keynote Opening Address

Erica Heilman, Rumble Strip Vermont podcast host

As host of the Peabody Award-winning podcast Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman “invites herself into people’s homes to find out what they know, hate, love, what they’re afraid of, and what makes them more like you than you’d realized.” In this keynote address, Erica will discuss why her conversations with Vermonters return again and again to questions about what home is and what community means. Hear what makes a Vermont town a place where people belong rather than a collection of unconnected houses. Consider whether challenges like the housing crisis could weaken some of that feeling of place in Vermont and how that might shape our sense of who we are and where we live. This kick-off event will show why the Clifford Symposium’s themes are central to the “messy, obsessively crafted stories of the everyday” that define Rumble Strip and Erica’s work for Vermont Public.

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