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Moments with Melinda: Interview with Cameron Davis - Emeritus of Art, Painting, Drawing 04/27/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Cameron (Cami) Davis (b. 1954 Bridgeport, CT.) is a former Senior Lecturer and teaches Painting, Drawing, Perspectives on Making, and Environmental Art. She received her M.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute in 1981 and B.A. in Studio Art from the University of Vermont, in 1976; with postgraduate studies in ecological theory from Schumacher College, Devon, UK in 1998 and 2015. Davis has attended artist residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Banff Centre for the Arts, Alberta, Canada, and has exhibited throughout Vermont, New York, and San Diego. She is in private and public collections nationally.

Davis is the recipient of the Lee Krasner – Jackson Pollock Foundation grant for painting, and Argosy Foundation and Puffin Foundation grants for painting in collaboration with composer Sam Guarnaccia. She considers her paintings, installations and community environmental art projects to be her primary vehicle for exploring issues of conscious perception as fundamental to navigating life in a warming and warring world. Her community art activist projects have followed the climate change movement for the last decade. She is interested in exploring wholistic aesthetics as a contributing factor towards cultivating the transition to a life affirming future. Davis is a member of the ecoartnetwork.org.

Addiction Recovery Channel: Fentanyl and Xylazine and The Poly-drug Overdose Death Crisis in America 04/20/2023

From Ed Baker:

Dr. Joseph D’Orazio, a noted expert, discusses the pharmacology of xylazine, the clinical course and clinical management of overdose, the complications presented by fentanyl/xylazine combination, xylazine wounds and wound care, and the growing prevalence of xylazine in the unregulated drug supply.

Dr. Joseph D'Orazio is an emergency physician, medical toxicologist, and addiction medicine specialist at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. He cares for Temple patients in a variety of settings, including the emergency department, an inpatient consultative service for addiction medicine and toxicology, the TRUST Clinic (an office-based opioid treatment program), and Begin the Turn (Temple's low-barrier access street-side medicine program). Dr. D’Orazio is a medical toxicologist for the Poison Control Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and is regarded as a regional expert regarding substance use and substance use disorder treatment in Philadelphia.

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Alec Webb, President of Shelburne Farms 04/17/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Alec was the General Manager of Shelburne Farms before being elected President of the Farms in 1988. He helped plan and coordinate the development of Shelburne Farms as a nonprofit organization, and has been active in local land use planning, agriculture, and environmental education projects for many years. In 2006, Alec was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Middlebury College. Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin honored Webb in 1990 for his extraordinary contributions to Vermont, and he received the Vermont Land Trust’s Richard W. Carbin Community Conservation Award in 1998.

What's Going On?: Stickering 04/11/2023

Host Sandy Baird, Citizen Activist chats with Christopher Aaron Felker about stickering campaigns happening around the City relating to the City Council's recent resolution: Supporting LGBTQIA+ Community Members and Condemning Transphobia.

Watch Christopher's Public Forum at the March 13, 2023 City Council Meeting and the full meeting here.

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Dr. Felicia Kornbluh 03/29/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Dr. Felicia Kornbluh is a Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at UVM. Dr. Kornbluh is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist. She has just released her nationally acclaimed book "A Woman's Life is a Human Life" the story of her mother and her neighbor and the journey from Reproductive Rights to Reproductive Justice.  

Shifting Focus: Organizing for an EcoSocialist Future 03/28/2023

From the Organizer:

Capitalism is choking the life systems of our precious planet and threatening extinction of complex species including humanity. Kali Akuno explains how EcoSocialism offers transformation from below, employing the principles of decolonization, anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, and degrowth. www.CooperationJackson.org.

Kali Akuno is a seasoned activist, organizer, educator, and writer. He is co-founder and director of Cooperation Jackson, an emerging network of worker cooperatives in Jackson MS. He is co-editor of Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, MS (2017) and author of numerous articles and pamphlets. 

The Social Exchange: Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Coming to Vermont? 03/24/2023

Host Zach Rhoads is joined by Rick Barnett, PsyD, Clinical Psychologist-Doctorate and Co-Founder of the Psychedelic Society of Vermont, to discuss the possibility of psychedelic-assisted therapy coming to Vermont.

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: Cybersecurity 101: A Pragmatic Overview of the Dark Side of Technology 03/24/2023

Sergio Tenreiro de Magalhaes gives an overview on cybersecurity and tips on how to keep yourself safe.

For more information visit: eeevermont.org

Moments with Melinda: Interview with Peter Asch 03/23/2023

From Melinda Moulton:

Peter Asch is the President of Twincraft Skincare.

Located in Winooski. With 240 employees, gross sales of $80,000,000 and 183,000 square feet of operation space here in Vermont, they are a premier company that is making a difference. 

For more infromation visit: www.twincraft.com

Education and Enrichment for Everyone: U.S. Immigration - A Primer on Borders, Visas, Pathways and Politics 03/10/2023

A presentation on the current state of immigration in the U.S, with Pablo Bose.

For more information visit: eeevermont.org

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