Outright Vermont has announced the hiring of Delanté Keys (pictured) as development coordinator and the election of Christopher Brown and Andrea Sambrook to leadership posts on the organization's board of directors.

Keys, an active performer focused on utilizing theater to serve a more joyous and liberated community, worked at Outright Vermont once before. They are a graduate of Arcadia University and have been involved in productions in Philadelphia; Austin, Texas; and Vermont.

Union Mutual Insurance Co. in Montpelier has announced the promotions of Alexis Burrall and Schuyler Ryan to its executive leadership team.  

Burrall, who joined Union Mutual in 2012, was promoted from assistant vice president of marketing to vice president of branding and communications. In this newly created role, she will oversee branding and communications for the affiliated Norfolk & Dedham/Union Mutual Insurance Group.

Alison Sherman, an attorney at Downs Rachlin Martin law firm in Burlington, has been elected a fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel for the state of Vermont. ACTEC is the premier trust and estate planning fellowship in the United States.

Sherman, a director at DRM, has practiced in the area of trusts and estates law for 11 years. She holds a law degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston.