BELLOWS FALLS-Michelle Bos-Lun has been successfully serving the state as a representative for Windham-3 since 2021, focusing on the issues that closely align with her values: affordable and equitable housing, restorative justice, youth and families, mental health, and climate and environment.
These are challenging times for those Vermonters who have called this amazing state home and for others, like me, who have adopted this special place and wouldn't dream of leaving it.
Michelle has shown her commitment to meeting our many challenges in her efforts on our behalf. She embraces challenge!
I have known Michelle for about 15 years as a friend, colleague, and fellow volunteer in the local theater community and can attest to the personal and professional qualities that she would continue to bring to our region and state. She offers a unique perspective based not only on the diversity of her life experience but her compassion, her dedication to promoting social justice and reform, and her tireless work ethic.
We are both graduates of the School for International Training in Brattleboro, which trains educators and others in the helping fields and is dedicated to "the goal of improving understanding across cultures and nations" by first promoting the understanding of our own culture and our local communities.
This knowledge and awareness of how global and local issues are tied together will help her to continue to contribute thoughtful ideas and solutions to the many challenges that face us. We also worked together as teachers, and I was always impressed with the way that she put her students' needs first and how determined she was to raising their awareness.
Michelle's leadership can help move Vermont forward as we deal with the uncertain future.
Jeanie Levesque
Bellows Falls
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