
In conversation: Mary Annette Pember at Rural Assembly Everywhere
Journalist and award-winning author Mary Annette Pember will be a featured speaker at Rural Assembly Everywhere 2026 on July 23.
In our most recent conversation, Center for Rural Strategies board member Erickson Blackney speaks with Mississippi State Senator Robert Jackson about Covid-19, Rep. John Lewis, and the Mississippi state flag.

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.