Rural Youth Catalyst has teamed up with Jobs for the Future (JFF) to create a landscape analysis of what is happening in, and across, the rural apprenticeship space.
A conversation about resilience, art, and culture with Nancy XiáoRong Valentine. Valentine is a 2024 Rural Regenerator Fellow with Springboard for the Arts and was awarded a 2023 Creative Support for Individual Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and a 2023 Legacy Individual Arts grant from the Lake Region Arts Council.
Taneum Fotheringill joins the Rural Assembly as the Associate Director of Community. Taneum takes pride in being a connector and looks forward to developing positive relationships with Rural Assembly communities across the country. Her work is informed by a lifelong interest in civics and the belief that everyone’s voice matters.
Now available: Award-winning author and Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House discusses faith, writing, activism, and rest with Rt. Rev. Brian Cole at Rural Assembly Everywhere June 2023.
New York Times bestselling author and Kentucky Poet Laureate Silas House will be in conversation with his friend, The Rt. Rev. Brian Cole, during Rural Assembly Everywhere: Toward Safer, More Connected Communities.
Their discussion will air during the free virtual gathering of the Rural Assembly, an afternoon of conversations, stories, and performances from rural people and allies across the country, June 28th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. ET.
Hear from these rural leaders and allies at Rural Assembly Everywhere June 28th. Register now for this free, virtual gathering of the Rural Assembly.
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.
