YouthBuild USA, a Steering Committee member of the National Rural Assembly, is leading its annual Conference of Young Leaders (CoYL), and the Rural Assembly is tagging along as a Rural Youth Caucus makes its way to the Hill to deliver messages to policy officials about what it means to live in rural America. They’ll talk healthcare, broadband, workforce, and education among other things.
Stay tuned!
Jaiden Dokken is a writer, printmaker, ceramicist, cidermaker, and self-described highly persistent pen pal. They are Clallam County’s first Poet Laureate and will spend the next two years bringing poetry to the northwesternmost corner of Washington State. Dokken’s work has been published in Fiction International, Algorithm, Muses and Vices, SpeakEasy, Superfroot Magazine, and Pile Press. They are an editor and reader for Perennial Press.
Center for Asian American Media Executive Director Stephen Gong on Asian American visibility
The Rural Assembly is pleased to announce Libby Lane as its new Deputy Director.
Save the date for Rural Assembly Everywhere, a multimedia production designed by and for rural leaders and their allies, on June 28th!
A free virtual event, Everywhere: Toward Safer, More Connected Communities will explore the ways rural people are pushing back against harmful policies and narratives and the steps they are taking to create safer, more connected communities.
Save the date for Rural Assembly Everywhere, a multimedia production designed by and for rural leaders and their allies, on June 28th!
A free virtual event, Everywhere: Toward Safer, More Connected Communities will explore the ways rural people are pushing back against harmful policies and narratives and the steps they are taking to create safer, more connected communities.
For National Library Week, people from rural places across the country reflect on the importance of rural libraries and librarians.
