This is the latest of several quick bios we'll blog of speakers scheduled to appear at the Vermont Statewide Housing Conference, Nov. 18 in South Burlington.
Read about other speakers scheduled to present at the event and register to attend at the conference Web site.
John Fairbanks is Public Affairs Manager for Vermont Housing Finance Agency, supervising communications activities and working in government relations, as well as one of the coordinators of our biennial conference.
He previously served as Communications Coordinator for U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) and as Press Secretary for Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
He holds a bachelor of arts in English, minor in speech communications, from Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.
In 2005, he attended the Senior Executives in State and Local Government Program at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government as a Fannie Mae Fellow.
John will be presenting at the conference as part of the Federal Housing Policy and Building Local Support for Housing Development workshops.