Whitney Coe's guest appearances

Whitney Coe

Rural Matters

David Reeves

Mitch Landrieu

David Kessler

Liz Carey

Nicole Johnson

Johns Hopkins

Chad Brown

Joe Davis

Paul Campbell

Karen Jackson

Anna Johnson

Cameron Webb

Tom Morris

Francis Collins

John Henderson

OwlTail

Kathleen Sebelius

Benya Kraus

Michelle chats with Whitney Kimball Coe, director of National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies and the leader of the Rural Assembly, about the upcoming Rural Assembly Everywhere Festival, and with three presenters at this landmark event including, Kathleen Sebelius, former HHS Secretary, Benya Kraus, co-founder of Lead for America and Executive Director of Lead for Minnesota, and Norma Flores Lopez, chair of the Child Labor Coalition’s Domestic Issues Committee and an activist with Justice for Migrant Women.   Rural Assembly Everywhere is a free, five-day (October 26-30) streaming virtual conference/festival, where you can tune in at any time to find out what’s happening in this critical time in rural America, Coe explains. The festival includes “main stage” keynotes from various authors and thought leaders, including Sarah Smarsh, author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, Dr. Richard Besser of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Rural Everywhere will cover vital issues and headlines from The Daily Yonder, such as the rural vote in the 2020 elections, and racial justice in rural America. Breakout sessions will focus on more specific issues, including climate change, resiliency, and developing the next generation of rural leaders. Also, Coe notes, there will be a happy hour every day, at which attendees can network with other attendees. To register for this can’t miss virtual festival, visit ruralassembly.org.   The major rural health issues today, according to Sebelius, include access to providers and hospitals; the promise of telemedicine to provide that access in, for example, specialty care and mental health; how resiliency in rural America can attract new providers and residents; and access to fast broadband, especially in education and health. Kraus, who will be facilitating a conversation with author Sarah Smarsh at the Everywhere event, discusses her rural outreach efforts in Minnesota, her relationship with immigrant and other entrepreneurs in Waseca, and the inspiring experience of “working your way back home.” At Lead for America, she explains, potential rural contributors can be matched with rural communities to earn two-year fellowships to enable them to bring best practices back to their hometowns. The Justice for Migrant Women, Lopez says, protects and advances rural and migrant women’s rights through education, public awareness, and advocacy. Rural America is not all white, as some politicians believe, but is actually diverse, and her organization tries to make sure that rural women are truly heard. In this election year, that means getting out the vote, she notes. Migrant farmworkers are essential works, she adds, and while they are starting to get more recognition, that doesn’t mean they’re getting needed workplace protections, such as overtime pay and the right to organize.

Michelle chats with Whitney Kimball Coe, director of National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies and the leader of the Rural Assembly, about the upcoming Rural Assembly Everywhere Festival, and with three presenters at this landmark event including, Kathleen Sebelius, former HHS Secretary, Benya Kraus, co-founder of Lead for America and Executive Director of Lead for Minnesota, and Norma Flores Lopez, chair of the Child Labor Coalition’s Domestic Issues Committee and an activist with Justice for Migrant Women. Rural Assembly Everywhere is a free, five-day (October 26-30) streaming virtual conference/festival, where you can tune in at any time to find out what’s happening in this critical time in rural America, Coe explains. The festival includes “main stage” keynotes from various authors and thought leaders, including Sarah Smarsh, author of Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth, Dr. Richard Besser of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Rural Everywhere will cover vital issues and headlines from The Daily Yonder, such as the rural vote in the 2020 elections, and racial justice in rural America. Breakout sessions will focus on more specific issues, including climate change, resiliency, and developing the next generation of rural leaders. Also, Coe notes, there will be a happy hour every day, at which attendees can network with other attendees. To register for this can’t miss virtual festival, visit <a href="http://ruralassembly.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ruralassembly.org</a>. The major rural health issues today, according to Sebelius, include access to providers and hospitals; the promise of telemedicine to provide that access in, for example, specialty care and mental health; how resiliency in rural America can attract new providers and residents; and access to fast broadband, especially in education and health. Kraus, who will be facilitating a conversation with author Sarah Smarsh at the Everywhere event, discusses her rural outreach efforts in Minnesota, her relationship with immigrant and other entrepreneurs in Waseca, and the inspiring experience of “working your way back home.” At Lead for America, she explains, potential rural contributors can be matched with rural communities to earn two-year fellowships to enable them to bring best practices back to their hometowns. The Justice for Migrant Women, Lopez says, protects and advances rural and migrant women’s rights through education, public awareness, and advocacy. Rural America is not all white, as some politicians believe, but is actually diverse, and her organization tries to make sure that rural women are truly heard. In this election year, that means getting out the vote, she notes. Migrant farmworkers are essential works, she adds, and while they are starting to get more recognition, that doesn’t mean they’re getting needed workplace protections, such as overtime pay and the right to organize.

Rural Assembly Everywhere with Whitney Coe, Kathleen Sebelius, Benya Kraus, and Norma Flores Lopez 

In this final segment of our four-part, in-depth series.  “Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing Opportunities,” produced in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michelle talks to three major thought leaders about pressing challenges and the future of living in rural America: Tom Morris, the Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy in HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), who oversees the work of the Office of Rural Health Policy; Dr. Allen Pratt, Executive Director of the National Rural Education Association (NREA); and Whitney Kimball Coe, the director of National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies, where she leads the Rural Assembly, a nationwide movement striving to build better policy and more opportunity for rural communities. The three big challenges in rural education today are teacher shortages, broadband and connectivity, and access to jobs in rural regions, according to Pratt. He notes Montana is trying to make it easier for potential teachers from rural areas to get licensed. Morris says that if you train people in rural areas, it’s more likely that they’ll stay in rural communities, noting that his office funded 27 new rural residency planning grants this year. Through its grant authority. Morris’s office engage in outreach in rural communities, such as it recent four-year pilot on obstetric services, which links the major stakeholders in this area. As far as success stories are concerned, Pratt cites a coding program in Montana, a wildlife initiative outside of Buffalo, NY, and scholarship to teacher aides in Arizona, while Morris mention what rural communities in Missouri and Maine are doing to combat COPD and projects in rural areas in Washington and Kentucky that are improving the population’s health status. Coe discussed the takeaways from the recent Rural Women’s Summit in Greenville, NC, including the leadership roles played by women in creating healthier rural communities (with or without the leadership titles) and the fact they should be better supported and the level of optimism that was bursting at the seams at the conference and how that could lead to changing of the narrative on rural communities. Finally, Coe cited the influence of the nonpartisan Vote, Run, Lead, which held a workshop at the Summit for women considering running for public office. This episode and the entire four-part series was sponsored and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, rwjf.org.

In this final segment of our four-part, in-depth series.  “Rural Communities: Conquering Challenges, Optimizing Opportunities,” produced in association with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Michelle talks to three major thought leaders about pressing challenges and the future of living in rural America: Tom Morris, the Associate Administrator for Rural Health Policy in HHS’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), who oversees the work of the Office of Rural Health Policy; Dr. Allen Pratt, Executive Director of the National Rural Education Association (NREA); and Whitney Kimball Coe, the director of National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies, where she leads the Rural Assembly, a nationwide movement striving to build better policy and more opportunity for rural communities. The three big challenges in rural education today are teacher shortages, broadband and connectivity, and access to jobs in rural regions, according to Pratt. He notes Montana is trying to make it easier for potential teachers from rural areas to get licensed. Morris says that if you train people in rural areas, it’s more likely that they’ll stay in rural communities, noting that his office funded 27 new rural residency planning grants this year. Through its grant authority. Morris’s office engage in outreach in rural communities, such as it recent four-year pilot on obstetric services, which links the major stakeholders in this area. As far as success stories are concerned, Pratt cites a coding program in Montana, a wildlife initiative outside of Buffalo, NY, and scholarship to teacher aides in Arizona, while Morris mention what rural communities in Missouri and Maine are doing to combat COPD and projects in rural areas in Washington and Kentucky that are improving the population’s health status. Coe discussed the takeaways from the recent Rural Women’s Summit in Greenville, NC, including the leadership roles played by women in creating healthier rural communities (with or without the leadership titles) and the fact they should be better supported and the level of optimism that was bursting at the seams at the conference and how that could lead to changing of the narrative on rural communities. Finally, Coe cited the influence of the nonpartisan Vote, Run, Lead, which held a workshop at the Summit for women considering running for public office. This episode and the entire four-part series was sponsored and supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, <a href="http://rwjf.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rwjf.org</a>.

Future of Rural Communities with Tom Morris, Allen Pratt, and Whitney Coe 

Edyael Del Carmen Casaperalta

Michelle chats with two very important advocates in the rural space: Whitney Kimball Coe, coordinator of the National Rural Assembly, a rural movement comprised of activities and partnerships geared toward building better policy and more opportunity across the country; (the Rural Assembly is part of Rural Strategies, which also includes Daily Yonder, a definite go-to read for anyone interested in rural matters); and Edyael Del Carmen Casaperalta, Fellow at the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, where she researches and writes about federal Indian law, international human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, and telecommunications and technology. Coe has established a focus on building civic courage in communities and is directly tied to a practice of participation in her hometown of Athens, TN. Del Carmen Casaperalta is a budding attorney dedicated to serving indigenous peoples and poor communities in telecommunications and technology law matters. The National Rural Assembly is holding its first Rural Women’s Summit Oct. 28-29 in Greenville SC. The Summit will begin with a panel comprising women journalists and will include sessions covering running for public office, curating your own story, gender, identity, and power. Rural Matters will be recording a podcast live from the Summit, #ruralwomenlead. For more information, visit ruralassembly.org. This episode was sponsored by Bryan Telemedicine, https://www.bryanhealth.com/services/telemedicine/; Phynd, www.phynd.com; REC Foundation, roboticseducation.org; For the Win Robotics, frw-robotic.com; and the Rural Assembly, ruralassembly.org.     

Michelle chats with two very important advocates in the rural space: Whitney Kimball Coe, coordinator of the National Rural Assembly, a rural movement comprised of activities and partnerships geared toward building better policy and more opportunity across the country; (the Rural Assembly is part of Rural Strategies, which also includes Daily Yonder, a definite go-to read for anyone interested in rural matters); and Edyael Del Carmen Casaperalta, Fellow at the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder, where she researches and writes about federal Indian law, international human rights, indigenous peoples’ rights, and telecommunications and technology. Coe has established a focus on building civic courage in communities and is directly tied to a practice of participation in her hometown of Athens, TN. Del Carmen Casaperalta is a budding attorney dedicated to serving indigenous peoples and poor communities in telecommunications and technology law matters. The National Rural Assembly is holding its first Rural Women’s Summit Oct. 28-29 in Greenville SC. The Summit will begin with a panel comprising women journalists and will include sessions covering running for public office, curating your own story, gender, identity, and power. Rural Matters will be recording a podcast live from the Summit, #ruralwomenlead. For more information, visit <a href="http://ruralassembly.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ruralassembly.org</a>. This episode was sponsored by Bryan Telemedicine, <a href="https://www.bryanhealth.com/services/telemedicine/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.bryanhealth.com/services/telemedicine/</a>; Phynd, <a href="http://www.phynd.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">www.phynd.com</a>; REC Foundation, <a href="http://roboticseducation.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">roboticseducation.org</a>; For the Win Robotics, <a href="http://frw-robotic.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">frw-robotic.com</a>; and the Rural Assembly, <a href="http://ruralassembly.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ruralassembly.org</a>.

Rural Assembly’s Rural Women’s Summit with Whitney Coe & Edyael Del Carmen Casaperalta