Podcast appearances and mentions of Madeleine Kunin

Over the past year, hundreds of people in our region joined Vermont Edition as guests. We parsed out complex topics like education spending and the opioid epidemic with elected officials and journalists. We chatted about everything from deer hunting, to houseplant care, to the weather. And we shared your calls and emails as we celebrated collective joys like the eclipse, and collective heartbreaks like the summer flooding.For our last Vermont Edition of the year, we share some of our favorite interviews and moments of 2024: drag queen and Center for Cartoon Studies graduate Sasha Velour, former Gov. Madeleine Kunin, the small team of southern Vermonters who successfully lobbied for a state mushroom, and locals who witnessed the April 8th total solar eclipse.

Wrapping up season two of the Vermont Public podcast Homegoings, a show about art and race. Plus, the town of Chester rejects new zoning rules to promote housing development, Barre City passes a new flood resiliency plan, former Gov. Madeleine Kunin reflects on what Kamala Harris' loss means for the Democratic Party, Vermont Fish and Wildlife offers a $5,000 reward for leads on the shooting of a bald eagle, and permits are now available to harvest Christmas trees in Green Mountain National Forest.

After a failed gubernatorial run in 1982, Madeleine Kunin secured 50% of the vote in her second run in 1984, winning against her Republican challenger. John J. Easton, Jr. Forty years ago, Kunin became the first and only woman to Vermont's highest-elected office. She's also the first and only Jewish person to serve as Vermont's Governor."I think the women's movement gave me the idea that women could do anything," Kunin said. "And I wanted to be involved in public events, and being in Vermont politics seemed more accessible. We had a small group of people at that time who encouraged each other to do things larger than their personal lives, and I took that seriously."When reflecting on the career of former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin, it's natural to focus on her historic “firsts.” Once in office, she appointed the first woman to Vermont's Supreme Court, Denise Johnson, She then appointed Mollie Beattie to the Department of Forest, Parks and Recreation, who would go on to become the first woman Director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The influence her leadership has had on generations of women. This legacy continued when, two years ago, Becca Balint was elected as Vermont's first female representative in Congress. Balint's election ended Vermont's distinction as the only state never to have elected a woman to Congress.Broadcast live on Thursday, November 14, 2024, at noon; rebroadcast at 7 p.m.Have questions, comments, or tips? Send us a message or check us…

America has chosen a strong man — with an emphasis on “man.”Donald Trump wagered that that a key to victory was appealing to men. His misogynist comments, his contempt for social and political norms, his embrace of authoritarian strongmen around the world was aimed at winning over men, especially young non-college educated men. It worked: the 2024 election results reflected an historic gender gap, in which most men voted for Trump, while most women voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.The two century-old tradition of electing men to lead the U.S. continues, at least for another four years.At the age of 91, Gov. Madeleine Kunin has a unique and long perspective on politics. She is the only woman to be elected governor in Vermont, serving three terms from 1985 to 1991. She went on to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Deputy Secretary of Education under Pres. Bill Clinton. Kunin founded Emerge Vermont to recruit and train Democratic women to run for office.Kunin's politics have long been informed by her personal experience with authoritarianism. A Swiss Jew, her family fled Europe in 1940 as Nazism spread.“I'm inspired in a strange way by my proximity to the Holocaust,” she said the morning after Trump's election. “We have to speak up. We have to participate. We can't just sit down and shut the door and stay by the fire. We have to fight more than ever and figure out how to be most effective.”“We will have to fight hard to protect democracy from here on in.”As a pioneering politician herself, Kunin said she was “very excited about the possibility of electing the first woman president. I hoped I would live that long.”She mused, “In a time of uncertainty, the public likes a strong man.”Kunin reflected on the need to “have more of a dialogue with young men so that they begin to understand who we are. That schism, that gap between men and women is not good for democracy.”In the aftermath of defeat “your first reaction is to retreat,” Kunin conceded, “but I don't think we can afford to retreat. We have to still be activists. We still have to participate and make our voices heard… We just have to force ourselves to keep democracy alive and to express our political and social views and make sure that as women, we remain active.”Kunin's advice to women is to “keep on doing what you're doing … I would urge women to continue to strive for top offices and not be totally discouraged by this election.”Kunin confessed that on the morning after the election, “I felt the real doom and gloom. But as the day goes on and as I'm talking to you, the fighting spirit is fighting its way back into my mind, into my psyche. I know we can't give up.”

10/10/23: Rep Patricia Duffy on gun violence. Rich Michelson & former Vt Gov. & poet Madeleine Kunin on “Walk With Me.” Todd Gazda on challenges to school library books. Ann Walsh & friends on Big Bros. Big Sisters' Three Ring Ruckus. Aschleigh Jensen on affordable housing in Amherst.

Gov. Madeleine Kunin is an open book. Vermont's only female governor has been chronicling her life in books since the mid-1990s, when she penned a memoir, Living a Political Life. Since serving as Vermont's governor from 1985 to 1991, Kunin went on to jobs as deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland. Along the way she has been sharing her insights about women and leadership in other books, including Pearls, Politics and Power and The New Feminist Agenda. Kunin has lately turned her focus back to her own life. In Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties, Kunin, 87, offers an intimate personal narrative of growing older. She has a new book of poetry, Red Kite, Blue Sky, in which she chronicles her experience of love, loss and loneliness in the aftermath of the 2018 death of her husband, John Hennessey, Jr., and after enduring a year of Covid-19 isolation. Kunin continues to be active in politics as the founder of the Vermont chapter of Emerge, which trains Democratic women to run for office. The former governor periodically testifies in the Vermont Legislature and remains a keen observer of politics, penning regular columns for VTDigger. “We have to be vigilant to protect our democracy and to push back,” Kunin says about threats to democratic institutions from President Trump and his supporters. “That's all the more reason for people to enter politics. We have to have voices who will speak out and speak the truth.”

Former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin, who just turned 87, remains a keen participant in politics. Kunin was the first and only woman to be elected governor in Vermont, serving from 1985 to 1991. She also served as deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland in the Clinton Administration. Kunin continues to be actively engaged in urging women to run for office. She is the founder of the Vermont chapter of Emerge, which trains and supports Democratic women candidates. She speaks and lobbies in support of issues such as death with dignity, universal pre-K and paid family leave. She is the author of four books, most recently, Coming of Age: My Journey to the 80s. Kunin, the first Jewish woman governor in the U.S., was born in Zurich, Switzerland. Her family emigrated to the U.S. as the Nazis began to sweep across Europe. She views President Trump's signal to white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups to “stand by” with deep concern. “This opens a Pandora's Box that we've got to close as quickly as possible,” she warns. “This is not America.”

Bob Salter's Guests Include: Marty Hayden is Earthjustice's Vice President of Policy & Legislation. Felicia Kornbluh is an American scholar, writer, and feminist activist and Associate Professor at the University of Vermont. Madeleine Kunin is a Swiss-born American diplomat, author (A Coming of Age: My Journey Into the Eighties) and politician. Dale McGowan is an American author, educator, and philanthropist (New Book: In Faith and In Doubt: How Religious Believers and Nonbelievers Can Create Strong Marriages and Loving Families)

On this week’s 51%, we’ll spend our time with a former U.S. ambassador who also was the first woman governor in her state. She’s finished her fourth book, a memoir, about aging. Madeleine Kunin was the first woman elected governor of Vermont. She served the Green Mountain state from 1985 until 1991. She served as […]

A few years ago I spoke to former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin for a show called Politics is Power. When I took some of her career advice and wrote it up in a LinkedIn post, it got hundreds of (positive) comments. So when I heard she had a new memoir out about being in her eighties, I couldn't wait to talk to her again. In this show we discuss what it's like to officially be an old woman, and talk about some of the highs and lows of reaching your eighties. We discuss how she's changed as a person and go back in time to her childhood, to parts of her career, and to the time she became single again at 60 after years of marriage. She found love again at 71. Being 85, she says, 'is not what I pictured in my mind.' See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Madeleine Kunin is the former three-term governor of Vermont, who served as the deputy secretary of education and ambassador to Switzerland under President Bill Clinton. In her new book, “Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties,” the topic is aging but she looks well beyond the physical tolls and explores the emotional ones as well.

“My future has shrunk like a sweater steeped in hot water” ...so says Madeleine May Kunin looking at her life as Vermont's first and only female governor, US Ambassador, Deputy Secretary of Education - and now, her journey to her 80’s. Join Brenda Starr for a conversation with Madeleine Kunin about her career and new book COMING OF AGE: My Journey To The Eighties .

Host Cyrus Webb welcomes author Madeleine Kunin to #ConversationsLIVE to discuss her life lessons and what it's been like to reflect as she discusses her book COMING OF AGE: MY JOURNEY TO THE EIGHTIES. 

On this episode of Take a Leaf, we welcome former Governor Madeleine Kunin to discuss her new memoir Coming of Age: My Journey to the Eighties. We discuss the memoir itself, including Kunin’s poetry, her thoughts on aging, and her post-political life. This episode concludes with a reflection on women in politics, sources of empowerment among women, and the inspiration that Gov. Kunin took in first deciding to run for office. Join us for a timely discussion with Vermont’s first female governor.

Countries like the US and UK may thrive in many areas, but not when it comes to women in politics. The US Congress is about 20% women and in the UK, Parliament is 23% female. Yes, it's an improvement on former decades, but in 2016 why aren't more women holding power at a national level? We have two fantastic, outspoken guests on today's show, which was first released in early 2015: Megan Murphy, former Financial Times Washington bureau chief (now with Bloomberg), and Madeleine Kunin, former and first woman governor of Vermont. She once ran against Bernie Sanders. We discuss the landscape for women in politics today, what life as a female politician is actually like, and why it's so important that more women go into politics in the first place. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Robin on Daesh/ISIL, Afghanistan's supreme court, and the pundits who analyze US elections. Guests: Jenny Raskin's Videofreex docufilm; Alida Brill's new book; former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin (on Bernie). Plus Surrealism Corner and We Won This! Jenny Raskin: Alida Brill: Madeleine Kunin:

Countries like the US and UK may be doing well in many areas, but not when it comes to women in politics. The US Congress is about 20% women. In the UK, Parliament is 23% female. Yes, it's an improvement on former decades, but in 2015 why aren't more women holding power at a national level? We have two fantastic, outspoken guests on today's show: Megan Murphy, the Financial Times Washington bureau chief, and Madeleine Kunin, former (and first woman) governor of Vermont. We discuss the landscape for women in politics today, what life as a female politician is actually like, and why it's so important that more women go into politics in the first place. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Elizabeth Courtney began her career as a printmaker and ceramicist. After moving to Vermont in 1974, she developed an interest in land use issues. In 1979, she enrolled in the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and graduated in 1982 with a Master’s Degree in Landscape Architecture, she returned to Vermont to practice land use planning. Madeleine Kunin appointed her to the Vermont Environmental Board in 1985 where she served three governors over nine years and was chair from 1990 to 1994. She is a 1995 Harvard Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies. She served on the Vermont Law School Board of Trustees from 1995-2004. Elizabeth was the Executive Director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council from 1997 to 2011 and the Legacy Project Director from 2011 to 2012, during which time she authored, with Eric Zencey, Greening Vermont: The Search for a Sustainable State.

Elizabeth Wright, Director of Women’s Advocacy and Written Communications at Young Women's Christian Association Knoxville, discusses The new feminist agenda: defining the next revolution for women, work, and family by Madeleine Kunin. (Recorded April 17, 2013) According to Kunin, progress is evident considering that women now comprise nearly 60 percent of college undergraduates and half of all medical and law students. They have entered the workforce in record numbers, making the two-wage-earner family the norm. But, Kunin says, combining a career and family turned out to be more complicated than expected. While women changed, social structures surrounding work and family remained static. Looking back over five decades of advocacy, Kunin analyzes where progress stalled, looks at the successes of other countries, and charts the course for the next feminist revolution--one that mobilizes women, and men, to call for the kind of government and workplace policies that can improve the lives of women and strengthen their families.

Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, a Swiss native who escaped the Holocaust at age 6, has recently written, “The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work and Family.” Kunin explores why there are so few women in political leadership and why she thinks more women should enter politics. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24218]

Former Vermont Governor Madeleine Kunin, a Swiss native who escaped the Holocaust at age 6, has recently written, “The New Feminist Agenda: Defining the Next Revolution for Women, Work and Family.” Kunin explores why there are so few women in political leadership and why she thinks more women should enter politics. Series: "Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24218]