Experienced institutional advancement professional with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education and non-profit industries. Skilled in fundraising, non-profit fund development, proposal writing, and networking. Strong community and social services professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Professional Writing from Champlain College. Danielle worked as a reporter at the Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, TX

Liz Crampton is a state policy reporter at POLITICO. She covers state legislatures and tracks policy trends. Previously, she wrote about food and agriculture for POLITICO. She also previously worked for Bloomberg BNA.

Zach Despart is a politics reporter for The Texas Tribune. He investigates power — who wields it, how and to what ends — through the lens of Texas government. He has extensively covered the Uvalde school shooting, including a groundbreaking investigation on the role the gunman’s rifle played in the disastrous police response. He previously covered Harris County for the Houston Chronicle, where he reported on corruption, elections, disaster preparedness and the region’s recovery from Hurricane Harvey. An upstate New York native, he received his bachelor’s degree in political science and film from the University of Vermont.

Scott is the former CEO and President of Vermont Public and West Virginia Public Radio. He has worked at public radio stations in Florida and Connecticut and as a reporter at the Charlestown Gazette. Scott manages CCN’s efforts to increase collaborations between university-licensed public radio stations and university reporting programs.

Andrew Heyward is a nationally known journalist, award-winning broadcast news producer, and expert on the changing media landscape. Andrew was President, CBS News, from January 1996-November 2005. Before that, he was executive producer of The CBS Evening News. Andrew was also responsible for developing and launching 48 Hours, the primetime CBS News hour that premiered in January 1988. He began his career working in local news at WNEW-TV and WCBS-TV in New York.

Alexa Morgan Lewis is a writer and a News Reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette. She is currently completing a Master of Arts in Journalism & Creative Writing at Johns Hopkins University. Based in Massachusetts. Alexa graduated from the University of Vermont and worked as a reporter for UVM's Community News Service. 

Eric is an investigative reporter for The New York Times, who digs into a broad range of topics from Pentagon spending to toxic chemicals. He has been a reporter for more than three decades, starting at a small New Hampshire paper before moving to The Hartford Courant, then to The Washington Post and, since 1999, The Times. Eric covered the 2001 attacks in New York and ended up co-writing a book called “City in the Sky, the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center.” His work has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent with a team of Times reporters detailing Russia’s intervention in the 2016 U.S. elections. Eric is a graduate of the University of Vermont. 

Eva McKend is a Correspondent covering National Politics for CNN. She joined CNN’s Washington D.C. bureau in September 2021 as a National Politics Reporter. McKend previously served as an on-air Congressional Correspondent, reporting for Spectrum’s 24-hour news stations across the country from the nation’s capital and as a senior reporter at WCAX-TV in Burlington, Vermont.