AnnaLee Dragon, Executive Director of the New York Library Association, and Dr. Hannah K. Miller (they/them), Associate Professor of Education at Vermont State University Johnson, are the keynote speakers for the Vermont Library Association’s 2025 annual conference.
Prior to her tenure at the New York Library Association, AnnaLee was director of Kinderhook Memorial Library in Columbia County, New York, where she led the organization through a successful capital campaign and building renovation and expansion. AnnaLee has experience at both large urban and small rural public libraries, having also worked as a reference librarian and a branch librarian at Albany Public Library. She will be speaking at the start of the conference.
Dr. Hannah Miller teaches in the educator preparation program at Vermont State University Johnson. The program interrogates the process of social change in educational systems, with a focus on privilege, power, justice, and liberation. Hannah’s current research project, TeachOut Vermont, aims to build social and professional networks for queer, nonbinary, and transgender teachers in Vermont.
Hannah is currently on a quest to knit in every public library in Vermont. The project is her way of spending time in Vermont’s public libraries to learn more about the role that libraries and librarians play in preserving the freedom to read, safeguarding civic rights and institutions, and building resilience in local communities. She will be speaking during lunch.
VLA’s 130th annual conference, “Rooted in Community,” will be held on Monday, May 19, at the to Killington Grand Resort Hotel and Conference Center, 228 E Mountain Road in Killington, Vermont. For more information about the conference, including registration details, please visit the conference webpage.
The Vermont Library Association is accepting presentation proposals for its 
