Executive Director Sarah Carpenter announced Lauren Trono of Colchester, VT has joined Vermont Housing Finance Agency (VHFA) as Human Resources/ Administration Manager.

Lauren comes to VHFA from General Dynamics where she has worked for the past 9 years, most recently as the Senior Human Resources Specialist.

Emerge Vermont, dedicated to increasing the number of Democratic women serving in elected and appointed office at all levels of government through a comprehensive 5-month training program, announced its Board of Directors today.

Since officially founding Emerge Vermont on August 7, 2013, the Board of Directors has led the organization through a successful launch, a series of kick-off events and an incredibly successful first-year fundraising effort. The Board named Executive Director, Sarah McCall, in August 2013 to lead these efforts.

Paul Danos, Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, has been appointed to the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Board of Trustees. He will also serve on the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health Board.

Danos, whose expertise includes financial accounting, corporate governance and higher education, will chair the Finance Committee of the Board and serve as Treasurer for the D-H and D-HH Boards.

Mary Sawabini of Ferrisbrugh, is now the owner of Sawabini & Associates LLC.

The ownership transfer was completed February 7, 2014.

Mary Sawabini has been an integral part of all levels of the company since its inception in 1991. She has a BA in anthropology from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She also has a MEd in counseling from the University of Vermont.

Elizabeth Suiter, M.D. relocated to Vermont From the State of Washington where she was medical director at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.

Dr. Suiter received her B.A. from Yale University and graduated with Distinction in Anthropology. She earned her M.D. at Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington D.C. She was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and a National Health Service Corps (NHSC) Scholar. She completed her residency in primary care internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

The Center for Research on Vermont selected Teresa Mares, assistant professor of anthropology, as the first Frank M. Bryan Vermont Scholar for a Vermont research project titled "La Otra Frontera (The Other Border): Exploring Latino/a Migrant Foodways."

North Star Leasing announces the hiring of Rick Royer as the company’s first Director of Sales & Marketing. Rick joins the company after working the past 25+ in the telecom industry holding the title of vice president of sales, customer service and marketing across 4 start-up companies. During this period he developed inside and outside sales teams across New England and implemented business processes to support the sales growth. He brings a wealth of knowledge in business development, customer retention and team building across all company departments.