Erin O’Farrell is a graduate student in the Environmental Humanities program at the University of Utah. Born and raised in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, Erin is passionate about telling the stories of rural places and the unique challenges they face in our changing climate. Her work interrogates questions of resilience and place identity in the context of environmental communication and rhetoric studies.
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Toward a New Conception of “Vermont Strong”
Vermonters need to conceive of their resilience as something that enables them to imagine new futures, not stand steady in ways of the past marked by homogenous identities that sometimes do more harm than help.
March 4, 2024
