Vermont Honduras Partners Conference

​​​Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin will deliver the keynote address during a Vermont Honduras Partners Conference on Friday, April 7, in Chase Community Center at Vermont Law School. The conference, from 8:30 to 5 p.m., will explore how Vermonters can assist communities in Honduras, and how Vermont communities can welcome Central Americans and other non-citizens in Vermont.

The conference will include an introduction to Vermont and Honduras community partnerships and panels on “Facilitating Sustainable Community Development in Honduras,” moderated by University of Vermont Professor Dan Baker, and “Central American Migrants in Vermont: Welcoming Communities, Human Rights of Non-Citizens,” moderated by VLS Professor Erin Jacobsen, an immigration lawyer at the South Royalton Legal Clinic. Workshops led by Vermonters and Honduran visitors will explore aspects of sustainable community development in Honduras, defending human rights of the foreign-born in Vermont, and sustainable economic development in Honduras.

The event, sponsored by the Vermont Honduras Partnership of Partners of the Americas, ACTS Honduras, and the South Royalton Legal Clinic (SRLC) at VLS, is free and open to the public and press.