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Woodbury College offers degree and certificate programs in advocacy. This program combines topics in law, community studies, communication, and conflict resolution. Students in this major learn how to protect and advance legal and human rights through persuasion, legal and administrative process and argument, networking, and consensus building.

Sources of information for this guide include the websites noted above. Current information on staff assignments was obtained from the New Legislator Orientation sponsored by the Vermont Legislative Council,Joint Fiscal Office, and The Snelling Center for Government. Staffing information is subject to change.

The Armchair Advocate was adapted from materials originally developed by Katherine Long for the Vermont Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations (VANPO), and adapted by Public Assets Institute in 2007.