JAM Podcasts & Audiobooks

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

In our 10th episode, our guest describes her youth in the Upper Valley, feeling a part of her hometown community in various local activities, like bake sales and bingo nights, and a grounding within her family. She explains how adult life, full of work, errands and obligation, has lessened her sense of belonging, and invites us to identify the ways in which small acts of recognition, as simple as greeting one another or using our turn signals, contribute to building a sense of inclusion.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

In our ninth episode, our guest calls out the hypocrisy and disingenuousness  they have experienced in the Upper Valley, where they have felt both accepted and  recognized as a young, skilled athlete and then pushed aside, shunned as a visible individual, learning what it is to be alone and to struggle, encouraging us all to be slower to judge one another, to get to know one another's stories, and to move beyond appearances.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 

Our 8th guest shares a vision of community that is rooted in compassion, empathy and caregiving, and describes arriving in the Upper Valley from a large family in a large city, learning a new pace and a sense of safety in the outside world, while struggling with full time work and finding affordable day care as single parent of a toddler; they explain what worked and what didn't in this life exploration that now follows a path away from the Upper Valley.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley.  

In our 7th episode, our guest relates their story of falling out of love with the Upper Valley: the ugliness they have uncovered behind the community's beautiful facade, the false lure of inclusion disappointed by the enduring reality of the harm being caused to black and brown bodies, here in this space, in these times.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV

In this final episode, Jess explores the impact of WISE’s prevention and education programming and how it inspires the next generation to create a more peaceful world and talks with WISE Executive Director Peggy O’Neil about her transformative years at WISE. Guests include Tori Nevel, Human Trafficking Specialist for New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, Helen Rooker, Northern Stage Production Manager, Kate Rohdenburg, WISE Program Director, Celine Guedj, WISE Youth Program Manager, high school students Anika and Elsa, as well as some voices from past episodes.

Peggy O'Neil, WISE Executive Director, opens the fifth episode as Jess interviews Angela Zhang, Jenny Williams, and Kate Harrison – all current board members. We learn what brings people to WISE, what it is like to support survivors on the crisis line, and how WISE touches every one of us.

In episode 4, Jess talks with Kate Rohdenburg, WISE Program director, Pat Glowa, WISE Board member, and Karen Tronsgard-Scott, Executive Director of Vermont Network Against Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. They reflect on the evolving ways of supporting survivors, intersections of WISE’s work with other Upper Valley institutions, justice and accountability, and their hopes for the future.

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 
Episode 6:  Our guest talks about her community in France vs. her community in the Upper Valley, how she has and has not initiated community activity, and how her family life and children have played a role in her community.
To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]
Edited by David Eric for CATV

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 
Episode 5:  An interview with a relatively new Vermont resident, who is trans-gender, and gives their experience(s) of living in the Upper Valley.

To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]

Edited by David Eric for CATV

Welcome to Intersections, a platform for sharing our experience of community in the Upper Valley. 
Episode 4:  A special episode with the co-creators about the mission and creation of the Intersections podcast. 
To share your story or questions with co-creators Michelle and Julius, you’re invited to email them at: [email protected]
Edited by David Eric for CATV