FCC Rural Broadband Trials Webinar

The National Rural Assembly’s Rural Broadband and Policy Group held a webinar for rural stakeholders in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission to explain how to participate in the FCC’s new experiment, the Rural Broadband Trials – a program that will fund projects to bring broadband to rural areas.

Speakers:
Jonathan Chambers, Chief, FCC Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis 
Edyael Casaperalta, Rural Broadband Policy Group Coordinator, facilitator

Drawing Resilience: Maureen Hearty

Maureen Hearty transforms objects, space, and community, seeing art as a tool for action, education, and opportunity. The majority of her community-based work today is on the eastern plains of Colorado, considered one of the most sparsely populated areas in the United States. In Joes, Colorado (pop. 78), she is activating space using art, music, and the collection of story. In 2020, Maureen and her friend Kristin Stoltz were awarded an NEA grant for a project titled “Arts for a Prairie Seas: Farming Fluxus.”

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