Elodie Reed
Health Equity ReporterElodie is a reporter and producer for 开云体育. She previously worked as a multimedia journalist at the Concord Monitor, the St. Albans Messenger and the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and she's freelanced for The Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, the Berkshire Eagle and the Bennington Banner. In 2019, she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University. Email Elodie.
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The banquet, called Wlipogwat, offered a taste of animals and plants harvested on Abenaki territory. It's part of ongoing efforts by Odanak and W么linak First Nations to protect their knowledge, culture and homelands. -
In a virtual hearing from a federal immigration courtroom in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, Judge Yul-mi Cho set a $1,500 bond for Diblaim Maximo Sargento-Morales, who was being held in Texas. -
The local immigrant farmworker organization Migrant Justice said that the federal government sent 28-year-old Luis Enrique Gomez-Aguilar to Mexico on Monday, and then sent 32-year-old Urillas Sargento and 22-year-old Dani Alvarez-Perez there today. -
The study, released Thursday, shows that while Vermont law enforcement agencies are doing fewer traffic stops since the COVID pandemic, there are continuing disparities in how Black and Hispanic drivers are policed. -
That鈥檚 as the state recognition law faces increasingly vocal criticism from the only two federally recognized Western Abenaki Nations, which say Vermont has legitimized people who haven鈥檛 adequately demonstrated their Abenaki heritage. -
In this week鈥檚 edition of the Capitol recap, the Vermont Senate gave final approval on Friday to legislation that seeks to expand access to reproductive care. -
Capitol Recap: Lawmakers vote to shore up shield laws and allow online access to abortion medicationThe legislation would make abortion medication accessible online, broaden which health care service advertising is regulated by consumer protection law, and add privacy options for providers of reproductive and gender-affirming care. -
Difficulties include recent federal funding cuts to state health equity work and a dispute over Indigenous belonging in Vermont. -
The project dates to the fall of 2022, when the Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs announced it was getting $50,000 from the foundation of the Burlington-based company Seventh Generation to create materials about Abenaki peoples for K-12 students. -
The Active Project was created by the Kelly Brush Foundation, a nonprofit in Burlington, and offers an adaptive sports event calendar, a grant finder and more.
