TCDG Associate Jolivette Anderson-Douoning offers opening devotional to Vt House Legislative Session on 1.22.25

Jolivette Anderson-Douoning opened the Vermont House Legislative Session on January 22, 2025, with a powerful devotional. She reflected on her family’s history of resilience through slavery, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement, which enabled her to pursue her education and earn a Ph.D. She also highlighted her daughter's diverse heritage and identities and reflected on the implications of this particular moment in history for her daughter and all children. Jolivette urged the legislature to create policies that align with our nation’s founding commitment to “form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity…”