To close out the National Rural Women’s Summit in Greenville, South Carolina, six women shared stories of working to encourage, build and strengthen their rural communities.

Marlene Chavez, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (@TRLA) (Immigration and equity)

Wendi Everson, Danville Regional Foundation (Building community wealth in Danville’s African-American neighborhoods)

Madeline Moore, Rethinking Rural (@Rethinking Rural) (The power of rural millennials)

Kathy Annette, Blandin Foundation (@BlandinFound) (Lessons from a trailblazer)

Michele Anderson, Springboard for the Arts (@micheleeamn) (A story of radical feminism)

Savannah Barrett, Art of the Rural (@ArtoftheRural) (Authentic exchange across rural and urban America)

Session produced by: Anna Claussen, Voices for Rural Resilience (@voicesforrural) Closing Remarks by: Diana Oestrich, Preemptive Love Coalition (@oestrichdiana1)
Videography by Joel Cohen.

(The Rural Women’s Summit is produced by the National Rural Assembly, part of the Center for Rural Strategies, which also publishes the Daily Yonder. You may follow the summit on social media using #RuralWomenLead or via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. The Daily Yonder also has compiled stories from the Summit.)

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Firestarter Videos: Six Rural Women Share Stories of Community Building

by Staff, The Daily Yonder
October 29, 2019

<h1>Firestarter Videos: Six Rural Women Share Stories of Community Building</h1> <p class="byline">by Staff, The Daily Yonder <br />October 29, 2019</p> <p>To close out the National Rural Women’s Summit in Greenville, South Carolina, six women shared stories of working to encourage, build and strengthen their rural communities.</p> <p><strong> Marlene Chavez</strong>, Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid (@TRLA) (Immigration and equity)</p> <figure></figure> <figure></figure> <figure></figure> <figure></figure> <figure></figure> <figure></figure> <p><strong>Wendi Everson</strong>, Danville Regional Foundation (Building community wealth in Danville’s African-American neighborhoods)</p> <p><strong> Madeline Moore</strong>, Rethinking Rural (@Rethinking Rural) (The power of rural millennials)</p> <p><strong> Kathy Annette</strong>, Blandin Foundation (@BlandinFound) (Lessons from a trailblazer)</p> <p><strong> Michele Anderson</strong>, Springboard for the Arts (@micheleeamn) (A story of radical feminism)</p> <p><strong> Savannah Barrett</strong>, Art of the Rural (@ArtoftheRural) (Authentic exchange across rural and urban America) </p> <p><em>Session produced by: <strong>Anna Claussen</strong>, Voices for Rural Resilience (@voicesforrural)&nbsp;Closing Remarks by: <strong>Diana Oestrich</strong>, Preemptive Love Coalition (@oestrichdiana1)<br /> Videography by Joel Cohen.</em></p> <p>(<span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text"><em>The Rural Women’s Summit is produced by the National Rural Assembly, part of the Center for Rural Strategies, which also publishes the Daily Yonder.&nbsp;</em></span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text">You may follow the summit on social media using #RuralWomenLead or via&nbsp;</span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text"><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=%23ruralwomenlead">Facebook</a></strong></span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text">,&nbsp;</span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text"><strong><a href="https://twitter.com/RuralAssembly">Twitter</a></strong></span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text">, and&nbsp;</span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text"><strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rural_assembly/">Instagram</a></strong></span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text">. The Daily Yonder also has compiled&nbsp;</span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text"><a href="https://dailyyonder.com/topics/rural-assembly/rural-womens-summit/">stories from the Summit</a></span><span class="c-message__body" dir="auto" data-qa="message-text">.)</span></p> <div class="fetvisopk fetvisopk-clearfix fetvisopk-post-bottom fetvisopk-float-center fetvisopk-align-center fetvisopk-column-1"> <div id="fetvisopk-51200-1442720458" class="fetvisopk-container fetvisopk-type-image " data-adid="51200" data-type="image"></div> </div> <p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://dailyyonder.com/firestarters-videos-six-rural-women-share-stories-of-community-building/2019/10/29/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://dailyyonder.com">The Daily Yonder</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://i0.wp.com/dailyyonder.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-dy-wordmark-favicon.png?fit=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://dailyyonder.com/?republication-pixel=true&post=52172&amp;ga3=UA-6858528-1" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p> Copy to Clipboard

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