Sandra Cameron of Barre, an accomplished organizational leader with over 20 years of experience in nonprofit organizations, has been named executive director of Dragonheart Vermont, a Burlington-based organization that strives to strengthen and empower breast cancer survivors and supporters through the sport of dragon boating, a team paddle sport. She will begin work in January.

Speaker of the House Jill Krowinski has appointed Brenda Churchill, a Bakersfield select board member and unsuccessful candidate for state representative in 2022, to the Vermont Commission on Women. Churchill will become the first transgender woman on the independent, nonpartisan state commission.