Conference

Moderator: Angelike Contis – President, Vermont Access Network / Executive Director, Mount Mansfield Community Television

Panelists:
Mike Wassenaar – President, Alliance for Community Media
Rep. Peter Anthony – Member, Vermont House Ways and Means Committee
Peter Bluhm – Consultant and Author of “The PEG Study”
Tammie Reilly – Executive Director, Greater Northshire Access Television (GNAT-TV)

This panel features Vermont House Ways and Means Committee Member Rep. Peter Anthony, who discusses legislative efforts to modernize the state’s telecommunications tax structure. We hear from Peter Bluhm, author of the “PEG Study”, a Vermont legislative white paper detailing PEG and other telecom public benefit revenue options, and Tammie Reilly, GNAT Executive Director, who will lay out VAN’s short-term funding strategy, which has generated $2.4 million since 2020, and the highlights of the Community Media Public Benefit Fund, to be taken up by the Vermont Legislature in January 2024.

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Moderator: Representative Taylor Small

Panelists:
Rev. Mark Hughes – Vermont Racial Justice Alliance
Daryl Lamont Jenkins – One People’s Project

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Moderator: Rev. Mark Hughes, Executive Director, VT Racial Justice Alliance

Limited access, representation, and voice in public media are among the racially disparate adverse outcomes experienced by Black folks in America as a result of the legacy of slavery. This has not only led to silenced voices but also misrepresentation and appropriation. Media access remains limited, Black stakeholders and producers are sparse, and the Black-centered story and experience continue to be largely absent from media. How can we provide access to the tools, facilities, and training required for Black youth to harness and leverage media capabilities? How do we ensure media access and teach recording and production skills to members of our community who need it most – those members of the marginalized community?

Explore a case study that provides an inside view of progress and setbacks in media justice in our community, including: How are we positioning ourselves to provide grass-roots community-based media training for youth in our marginalized communities? How are we centering racial equity and justice? What approaches are we taking to ensure that this work is professionally and academically augmented? Session includes a presentation, panel discussion (with youth) and Q/A segments.

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Moderator: Bobby Lussier, Development Director – Center for Media and Democracy

Panelists:
Rob Perry, Executive Director – Mad River Valley Television
Jessica Smyser, Executive Director – Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge, MA
Anthony Riddle, Senior Vice President of Community Media – BRIC

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