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
Journalist and award-winning author Mary Annette Pember will be a featured speaker at Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026 on July 23.
Registration is now open for our upcoming webinar: How Community Benefit Agreements Can Support Rural Communities, June 3, 12 p.m.
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
Introducing Yonder Radio, a free, one-hour radio show and podcast from the Center for Rural Strategies
Rural Assembly Director Madeline Matson returns to middle school for Women’s History Month.
Photographer Casey Orr has been documenting the ways people find each other, and themselves, through how they present themselves to the world her entire career. Her current project focuses on rural young people in northern England and eastern Washington State.
