The Vermont Human Rights Commission is a state agency whose sole mission is to protect and preserve the human rights of Vermonters. The small agency—just three investigators, an executive director and an executive assistant—works on discrimination in housing, state government, employment and in public spaces like schools and restaurants. Now the Commission's new executive director is pledging to take a more proactive approach to fighting discrimination.
Bor Yang, an administrative law examiner and investigator at the agency since 2015, took over the job as HRC executive director in November.
She joined Vermont Edition to talk about her vision for the agency. She sees it being proactive in areas related to discrimination and promoting civil rights.
And she discussed how her own lived experienced—"as a woman, as a person with a disability, as a person of color, as an immigrant" but also as an attorney, a mediator, a community college instructor and as a parent—all inform her work with the Human Rights Commission.
Broadcast live on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019 at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.
