Third Annual Vermont Award
Vermont Business Magazine The ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award program was founded in 2007 by ATHENA International to honor emerging women leaders who demonstrate excellence, creativity and initiative in their business or profession. Recipients must also demonstrate their commitment to service by contributing time and energy to improve the quality of life for others in their community while serving as a role model for young women personally and professionally.
Call for Nominations
The ATHENA Young Professional Leadership Award® recognizes women 40 years old and younger who meet each of the following criteria:
• Demonstrates excellence, creativity, and initiative in their business or profession
In her first year at UVM, lecturer Lisa Dion established the first Vermont Girls Who Code chapter (photo: Sally McCay).
After completing graduate school at the University of Michigan in 2016, Lisa Dion cast about for a summer internship before taking up her duties as a lecturer at UVM. Then an ad for a program called Girls Who Code caught her eye.
“Women are definitely underrepresented in computer science and working toward gender parity is something close to my heart,” Dion said.
She had never heard of Girls Who Code but was intrigued enough to apply for a summer position. She was accepted and soon found herself in Atlanta receiving a week of intensive training. As a newly minted Girls Who Code instructor, she taught a seven-week course that summer to 20 girls.
Barre City Place
by Cody Morrison, Executive Director, Barre Area Development Barre Area Development, Inc. (BADC) turned 60 years old month. Since its founding in 1961, BADC has been involved in many activities that have improved civic pride and the economic, social, and cultural quality of life in Barre Town and Barre City.
Made up of a volunteer board of directors and, since 2008, a full-time Executive Director, BADC has collaborated with local stakeholders to be a successful economic development force for the Barre area.
Since their creation, they have focused on industrial, commercial, and retail development by providing information and support to potential new and existing businesses in Barre Town and Barre City. Overall, the goal is to help grow the local economy.
Open letter to Gov Scott samessenger.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from samessenger.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To the editor:
Open Letter to Governor Phil Scott and the Vermont Legislature:
We appreciate the challenge of governing during a global pandemic. Instead of meeting with colleagues and constituents, we now rely on video chat, texts, emails, and phone calls. We are in an extraordinary time, where safety requires us to maintain physical distance from one another. We believe government is essential and applaud the efforts to adapt. We cannot allow this virus to grind the gears of government to a halt.
Even so, this is not the time for business as usual, especially for the Vermonters we represent. Although state leaders have strived to keep engagement up between the citizens, committees and the Administration, the 2020 session provided many examples showing major challenges to gathering necessary data and testimony to craft quality policies. The organizations listed below represent hundreds of thousands of working Vermonters. We ask that our elected leaders of all political parties fo