OUR TEAM

We’re Hiring!

We're looking to grow the Waterbury Roundabout team!

We've received grant funding to support a temporary position to start working on business development. This would be part-time for the 4th quarter and we hope it will be successful with the potential for it to continue into 2025. 

Like so much with this still-new community news project, we're figuring this out as we go.

This position would involve working on several key areas aimed at growing revenue and making the Roundabout financially sustainable: 

  • building website advertising

  • lining up sponsors for our email newsletters

  • working to bring more readers on board as subscribers

Along the way, our year-end fundraising will feature a matching program to leverage contributions going into the new year. There also may be opportunities for grant writing.

Of course, someone with experience in advertising sales would be ideal. But more importantly, we'd like to bring on someone with knowledge of our community and some business background who shares our commitment to local journalism and wants to see the Roundabout thrive. 

The ideal candidate would be friendly, outgoing, and comfortable talking with people one-on-one (not just email). They would see value in local news and recognize the potential of the communication platform that the Roundabout has built so far.

They should be creative and able to juggle multiple tasks, have good writing, grammar and spelling skills.

We work in Google docs and spreadsheets, along with Squarespace, Mailchimp and Stripe to run our website, newsletter distribution, and fundraising portal.

This would be a contracted position, up to 20 hrs. per week, $20-25/hr. based on experience. 

To apply: Send an email telling us about your interest, background, and ideas you might have along with your resume to waterburyroundabout@gmail.com. 

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Lisa Scagliotti

Editor, Reporter

Lisa Scagliotti is an experienced Vermont journalist and editor. She has worked at daily newspapers in Vermont, Alaska, New York and Pennsylvania, including the Burlington Free Press and the Anchorage Daily News. She has reported on local and state government, politics, business and aviation. She worked as managing editor at The Shelburne News and The Citizen weekly newspapers in Chittenden County prior to helping launch the University of Vermont’s Community News Service journalism internship program where Waterbury Roundabout was created in spring 2020.

Julia Bailey-Wells

Digital Editor

Julia is an editor and web developer. They graduated from UVM in December 2020 with a degree in Environmental Studies and Computer Science. Julia maintains the Waterbury Roundabout website, creates the This Week in Waterbury email newsletter, and designs website ads and newsletter sponsor spots.

Gordon Miller

Photographer

Gordon Miller is a freelance photographer working in Central Vermont. He photographs for the Stowe Reporter and News & Citizen weekly newspapers in Lamoille County and the Waterbury Roundabout in Washington County. His photos also are featured in the Stowe Guide Magazine published by the Stowe Reporter. His work has won awards for excellence from the New England Newspaper & Press Association and the Vermont Press Association. He travels many days with his two dogs capturing scenes of Vermont.

Advisory Board

Cheryl Casey

Cheryl Casey is a scholar of communication, media, and culture, who has taught at a number of institutions, including Champlain College, Hamilton College and Sacred Heart University. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in media ecology from New York University. She volunteers as president of the Waterbury Historical Society and with Waterbury Winterfest. Cheryl is a regular freelance correspondent contributing to the Waterbury Roundabout.

David Goodman

An award-winning journalist, author and radio host, David Goodman has written a dozen books, including four New York Times bestsellers co-authored with his sister, Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman. In addition to public affairs, his specialty is the history and world of backcountry skiing. His work appears in numerous national publications including Mother Jones, the New York Times and the Boston Globe. He hosts The Vermont Conversation, a VTDigger podcast and WDEV Radio Vermont broadcast with interviews with local and national newsmakers.

Anne Imhoff

After working in the publishing industry in New York and Boston for 40+ years as production director and designer for magazines, books and university presses, Anne relocated to Waterbury with plans to retire. Instead, she spent 20 additional years publishing the weekly newspaper Exit 10 for the Waterbury and Duxbury communities, FINALLY retiring in 2008. Anne serves as an editorial and advertising adviser to the Roundabout. She also serves on the Waterbury Historical Society’s Board of Directors and Accession/Deaccession committee, and is a founding member of the nonprofit Waterbury Arts organization.

MK Monley

A retired art teacher, MK Monley is a tireless local champion of community-based art endeavors. She is a founding board member and current chair of the Waterbury Area MakerSphere Cooperative and a co-creator of the annual River of Light Lantern Parade in Waterbury.

Gwenna Peters

Gwenna Peters is a semi-retired Montana physical therapist who is now a grandparent in Vermont. She’s active with various community organizations including the Waterbury Rotary Club and a Moretown pickleball league with some 70 players. She also enjoys walking her dog, dancing in the kitchen, attempting to learn French, skiing, and tending her garden.

Wilson Ring

Longtime former Waterbury resident Wilson Ring is now retired in Stowe after a career in journalism at several Vermont newspapers and 30+ years as a Vermont correspondent with the Associated Press.  

Maddie Hughes

A journalist who got her start in Vermont, Madeline Hughes now covers tech legal and regulatory news in Washington, D.C. for the specialty trade news site MLex. She graduated from Saint Michael's College in 2017, landing her first reporting job at the now-defunct Waterbury Record followed by a stint at its sister publication, the Shelburne News. She later moved to New Hampshire where she covered local and political news for The Eagle-Tribune.  Despite moving out of Vermont to pursue new career opportunities, she’s kept in touch with her former editor Lisa Scagliotti and colleague Gordon Miller, following and supporting the launch of the Waterbury Roundabout. Madeline offers input (and occasional freelance reporting) to help strengthen local news in the community where she began her career.

Sandy Yusen

With 30+ years of experience in the corporate, higher education, and nonprofit sectors, Sandy Yusen has held leadership roles in communications, public relations and community relations at Champlain College, Keurig Dr. Pepper, Burton Snowboards, and Boston public relations firm Cone. She did her undergraduate studies at Dartmouth College, earned a masters in Communications from Boston University, and runs a communications consulting firm, Fly Write LLC. Sandy is a frequent freelance contributor to the Waterbury Roundabout.