2025 Business Advocacy Training
VBSR is inviting our members to join us for a free Business Advocacy Training for those seeking to develop advocacy skills and an understanding of current climate legislation!
You will gain a 101-level practical knowledge of how VBSR represents our members with lawmakers, how you can take action on behalf of your business, and what’s happening this year in the statehouse— including talking points about the Global Warming Solutions Act and state climate policy.
VBSR’s Public Policy Manager, Johanna de Graffenreid, will guide us through this training with time for Q&A at the end.
Meet Your Facilitator
Johanna de Graffenreid, Public Policy Manager at VBSR
de Graffenreid has nearly 20 years of experience as a community organizer, advocate, lobbyist, campaign director, and trainer – including with businesses and economic development entities. She has a dual degree in Political Science and Women’s & Gender Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a master’s degree from Vermont Law and Graduate School.
She has worked on issues ranging from resource extraction to climate justice, the rights of women and girls to rural economic and workforce development. Most recently she managed the Vermont Arts Council’s economic development network, the Vermont Creative Network. Her efforts have taken her across the Southeastern U.S., Gulf Region, Appalachia, New England and the Hudson Valley.
Questions? If so, please contact to Johanna de Graffenreid, Public Policy Manager, at johannad@vbsr.org.
Are you interested in sponsoring this event? Questions? If so, please contact to Jeremy Gerber at jeremyg@vbsr.org