At Landmark: Curtiss Reed, Jr. - 2/29/16

Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future with Curtiss Reed, Jr.

Curtiss Reed, Jr., chronicles how Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity is leading the nation’s most rural and least racially diverse state to become the epicenter of inclusive and equitable thought and practice in the United States through its Vermont Vision for a Multicultural Future initiative. Vermont Partnership recently completed year eleven of the anticipated 40-year initiative.

Reed serves as executive director of Vermont Partnership for Fairness and Diversity. He has spent his life fighting to create institutional and governmental structures that recognize, value, support, nurture, and provide justice for those individuals outside the insular realities of the majority. His journey began as a child in St. Louis fighting Jim Crow racism, followed by two decades of social and economic justice work in international arenas.  For the past 14 years, his work has focused on Vermont. Throughout he has tried to be humble, gracious, compassionate, and skillful in the use of inquiry as a subversive activity.