A project of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.
A project of the University of Vermont’s Reporting & Documentary Storytelling program.
Meg Little Reilly
Meg Little Reilly is the Director of Communications at Convergence Center for Policy Resolution. She is the board chair for the Center for Community News at UVM where she previously served as Deputy Director of the Center for Research on Vermont and she established a civic engagement internship program for students. Prior to that work, Meg served as chief writer at Bennington College. During the Obama Administration, she served as deputy associate director of communications and strategy at the White House Office of Management & Budget, and as a Spokesperson for the U.S. Treasury. She is the author of three novels. Meg began her career at Vermont Public Radio.
Duc Luu
Duc Luu joined Knight Foundation in January 2022. He is the director of sustainability initiatives of the Journalism Program.
Duc is a business development and operational leader with more than a decade of experience across media and research organizations. Prior to joining Knight, he was publisher and chief revenue officer for Washington City Paper, a local news leader for the Washington, D.C. area.
He has also served in business development and new product innovation roles at The Economist and Foreign Policy magazine.
Stephanie Murray
Stefanie Murray is the Director of the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. A Michigan native, Stefanie previously worked in Michigan and Tennessee as a reporter, editor, digital media manager and news executive. Before joining Montclair State, she worked for Gannett Co. as vice president and executive editor of The Tennessean in Nashville, and was with the Detroit Free Press before that.
Her professional passions are collaborative journalism, local journalism, community engagement and audience analysis. She has a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in broadcasting and journalism from Central Michigan University.
Melanie Plenda
Melanie Plenda is the executive director of The Granite State News Collaborative, an award winning collective of more than 20 local media, educational and community organizations across the state of New Hampshire. Melanie has more than 20 years of journalism experience. Her work has been published by the Associated Press, The Atlantic, The New Republic and numerous local and regional publications.
Patricia Prelock
Patricia Prelock, Ph.D., is Provost and Senior Vice-President, University of Vermont. Formerly, she was the Dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the University of Vermont for 10 years. She is also a Professor of Communication Sciences & Disorders, and Professor of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at the University of Vermont. Dr. Prelock received her Ph.D. in speech-language pathology from the University of Pittsburgh.
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Fran Stoddard
Fran is a veteran broadcast journalist who has covered the people and issues of Vermont for four decades. She is a familiar face to viewers across our state and region through her work on Vermont Public Television, where she was Producer/Host of the popular award-winning “Profile” program from 2001-2011. She also co-hosted “Switchboard”, the weekly evening call-in program on Vermont Public Radio. In addition to her on-camera work, Fran is a former Associate Professor at Champlain College, where she taught video production. Fran is committed to building stronger, healthier, and more economically vibrant small cities and towns across Vermont and the nation, through her work with the Orton Family Foundation, and now “Across the Fence “and WCAX-TV.
