The Frequency: Daily Vermont News

A different class

By Mary Williams Engisch,

Karen Anderson, Mark Davis, Adiah Gholston

Published April 16, 2025 at 5:00 AM EDT

In the next installment of our recurring series on class in Vermont, we meet Tom Burdick and hear about the challenges of breaking into higher education, and raising children in a different class from the one he grew up in. Plus, Canada has introduced a relief period for businesses from its counter-tariffs on some U.S. imports.

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Mary Williams Engisch

Mary Williams Engisch is a local host on All Things Considered.

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Karen Anderson

Karen is Vermont Public's Director of Radio Programming & Operations, serving Vermonters by overseeing the sound of Vermont Public's radio broadcast service.

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Mark Davis

Mark Davis has spent more than a decade working as a reporter in Vermont, focusing on both daily and long-form stories. Prior joining Vermont Public as assistant news director, he worked for five years at Seven Days, the alt-weekly in Burlington, where he won national awards for his criminal justice reporting. Before that, he spent nine years at the Valley News, where he won state and national awards for his coverage of the criminal justice system, Topical Storm Irene, and other topics. He has also served as a producer and editor for the Rumblestrip podcast. He graduated from the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism.

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Adiah Gholston

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