In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Marybeth Redmond, who serves in the Vermont House of Representatives, advocated for the Vermont legislature to grant relief money to two organizations that serve often overlooked populations: immigrants and refugees. The state government granted the money and moved on. But Redmond did not.

As the pandemic raged on, Redmond’s colleagues pushed to pass a second COVID-19 relief bill as quickly as possible. But Redmond remembered the money they had given to the Association for Africans Living in Vermont and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Vermont. How had they used their relief money? Could they benefit from more?

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