The Vermont Natural Resources Council will present the 2022 Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership to Zoe Richards, chair of the Burlington Conservation Board and director of Burlington Wildways, in recognition of her dedication to preserving and expanding access to Burlington’s natural resources and wild spaces.
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Joe Wiah, director of the Ethiopian Community Development Council’s Multicultural Community Center in Brattleboro, has been named winner of the 2022 Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial Community Leadership by the Vermont Community Foundation.
Leah Zeigler of Shelburne, director of finance and human capital management at Champlain Investment Partners in Burlington, has been appointed to the board of directors at Age Well, a Colchester-based nonprofit that provides services and support to older adults wishing to stay in their homes.
Brandi LaBounty, a member of the National Association of Realtors' Green Resource Council, has joined the South Burlington office of Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty as a realtor.
John Castle, former superintendent of schools for the North Country Supervisory Union, has been named executive director of the Vermont Rural Education Collaborative. He succeeds Margaret Maclean, a 20-year VREC employee who served the last four years as executive director.
Kristin Sullivan, executive director of the Ward Foundation, a nonprofit that staffs and operates the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art at Salisbury University in Maryland, has been named executive director of Retreat Farm in Brattleboro.
Agri-Mark, the premier dairy cooperative in the Northeast, has elevated Senior Vice President and Top Operations Officer David Lynn to interim CEO. He succeeds Bill Beaton, who stepped down in August. Agri-Mark owns the award-winning Cabot brand of Vermont Cheddar, butter and other dairy products.
Justin Wright, who formerly operated his own real estate business, J Wright Realty, has joined the commercial lending team at Peoples Trust Company. Wright has previous experience in the financial advising, customer support management and logistics management in industries as varied as personal finance, software and agriculture.
Consultant, adviser and investor Max Engel of Manchester has joined the board of directors at Vermont Parks Forever, an organization dedicated to enhancing and protecting Vermont's 55 state parks.
Gifford Health Care has named Kathleen Bryant as its new school-based nurse practitioner. In this role, she will primarily work with students in health clinics at local elementary and high schools.
Sean O’Rourke, former general manager of Bond & Royal for Sazerac, the third largest spirits company in the world, has been named CEO at BHAKTA Spirits, a portfolio of luxury brands founded by Raj Peter Bhakta.
SVMC Deerfield Valley Campus, part of Southwestern Vermont Medical Center and Southwestern Vermont Health Care, recently welcomed family nurse practitioner Lisa Moulton. With this appointment, Moulton also rejoins the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Putnam Physicians.