Rural Assembly Director, Whitney Kimball Coe led a virtual Civic Saturday on May 23. Hosted by the Athens Thrive Team and the Athens Recovery Team, this hour-long event features a roundtable of local leaders: The Rev. David Graybeal of Keith United Methodist Church; Lisa Dotson of Main Street Athens; C. Seth Sumner, city manager of Athens; and Dr. Bill Bowers, local physician.
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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.
