About the event
Economic, environmental, racial and social justice issues will be threaded throughout the conference as we discuss the climate crisis, healthcare, housing, democracy, foreign policy, criminal justice, labor issues and more. The Gathering is an informative, issue-oriented, idea-focused, movement-building conference focused on developing bold, progressive solutions. Following the event, we will be sharing the speeches, interviews, conversations and sessions in a variety of formats.
The Gathering: Speakers
US Senator (I) VT
Co-Founder, Fellow, The Sanders Institute
Executive Director of Our Revolution
Professor at Stony Brook University
Director of Zogby Research Services
President of One Fair Wage
Filmmaker, writer, director, activist
International President Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, AFL-CIO
Chair of the board of the Partnership Project and Partnership Project Action Fund
Founder and Chairman of PatientRightsAdvocate.org
President & CEO of Hip Hop Caucus. Rev Yearwood
Mayor of Burlington
Chief of the St Francis/Sokoki Abenaki of Missisquoi
Co-Founder, Power to the Patients Partner, Swift River Productions
28th Attorney General of Vermont
President and Co-founder, Aids Healthcare Foundation
Senior Director of Global Organizing for Zero Hour
Vermont State Treasurer
President of Social Security Works
Editor of Common Dreams
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Director of 32BJ SEIU Health Fund
Founder, VerSan Consulting, LLC
City Councilor
Professor
Founder and Executive Director of the Fund for Guaranteed Income (F4GI)
Chair of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research
Medicine Specialist
Co-Founder of Labor Institute
CEO of Champlain Housing Trust