Join us for a discussion of the Vermont Young Child Tax credit and the importance of income supports for families. Featuring Julie Lowell of Public Assets Institute, Rebecca Balin, Deputy State Campaigns Director, Travis Poulin of Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity, and Liz Scharf of Capston Community Action . This event will include ASL interpretation and transcription. Registrants will receive access to the recording and additional resources.
Speaker Bios:
Rebecca Bailin, Deputy State Campaigns Director, works in partnership with grassroots and policy organizations across the country to win state-level campaigns that use our tax code to get cash in the hands of working people. Rebecca has over a decade of experience turning complicated policies into winnable organizing campaigns – and winning is her favorite thing to do! Rebecca has lead winning campaigns in New York including winning billions of dollars for New York State by increasing taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and New York City’s first program providing discount MetroCards for low-income New Yorkers.
Rebecca has been named City & State’s 2021 Albany Power 100 and Albany’s 40 Under 40. Rebecca lives in Brooklyn where she hangs out with her cat and goes on bike rides with her husband.
Julie Lowell is a policy analyst at Public Assets Institute in Vermont, where she focuses on researching and advocating for state systems that ensure all people can meet their basic needs, and to right historic and current racial, gender, and ability injustices impacting the community. She joined the Public Assets team after working for over a decade in Chicago, Oregon, and Vermont with survivors of domestic violence, families experiencing homelessness, and women in the criminal justice system, and seeing the many challenges people face accessing resources and navigating through crises.
Travis Poulin is the Community Action Network Director for the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity (CVOEO). Travis has worked with CVOEO for the past 30 years, focusing on hunger relief, housing, fuel and utility, and free income tax preparation through the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program.
Liz Scharf is the Director of Community Economic Development and Food Security at Capstone Community Action. She is an AFCPE® Accredited Financial Counselor® and an Advanced Level Certified IRS Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) preparer. Liz has worked at Capstone for 9 years and currently oversees the Economic Development programming at Capstone including the VITA program.