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: An interview with Hannah Evans, former Executive director of Virginia Food Works, a nonprofit that helps farmers and small businesses can their produce and create value-added products like salsa, hot sauce, and pasta sauce.
Rural Assembly Fellow Quintissa Peake shares about her rural roots and passion for rural health.
Rural Assembly Associate Director of Community Taneum Fotheringill reflects on the solutions and inspiration she found during the 2023 Radically Rural Summit.
Drawing Resilence: An interview with Dorn Cox, farmer and research director for the Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and the Environment in Freeport, Maine.
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Earth Alliance CEO Brady Walkinshaw talks about changing mindsets about the climate crisis — and why he thinks rural communities will play a critical role in solving it.
