Cathy Resmer reflects on the coloring contest and the upcoming Next GENerator: Vermont’s Youth Maker Market — two examples of reader engagement.
Cathy Resmer
Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex to prove it. As the paper’s first online editor, she launched Seven Days email newsletters and started the paper’s first social media accounts. Cathy has overseen Kids VT, Vermont’s parenting magazine, since Seven Days purchased it in 2010. She’s also an organizer of the annual Vermont Tech Jam and the creator of the Good Citizen Challenge, a civics and news literacy project for K-8 students. Cathy received the 2019 C. Harry Behney Economic Development Achievement Award along with the Seven Days publisher team. She lives in Winooski, Vt., with her wife and their two kids.
