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
Erin Borla, Executive Director of the Roundhouse Foundation, and Ash Hanson, Chief Creative Officer of the Department of Public Transformation, will be in conversation at our annual virtual gathering, Rural Assembly Everywhere, on July 23.
Trish J. Gibson has joined the Rural Assembly as the new Program and Communication Coordinator. Trish has a background in
By Annie Contractor In rural communities across the nation, residents and civic leaders are thrust into debates about the future
Journalist and award-winning author Mary Annette Pember will be a featured speaker at Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026 on July 23.
Register now for our June 3rd webinar to learn more about how Community Benefit Agreements can help rural communities.
An interview with Beth Howard, organizer and author of Song for a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Anti-Racist Solidarity From a Coal-Miner’s Daughter
