Burlington Democratic Event

 

Keynote Speaker

Christine Hallquist

​​​​May 7, 2025, 5:30 PM

Christine Hallquist has spent her entire lifetime as a change agent. In business, she worked to transform companies, including Honda of America, Miller Brewing and Keebler. She led Vermont Electric Cooperative from bankruptcy to an A+ rated company. As a result of that work , she was elected to chair of the Business and Technology advisory committee to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, which oversees the electric supply for over 1/2 of America. Christine became the first major party transgender candidate for Governor in 2018. Her work to decarbonize North America's energy supply started in 2005 and continues to this day. She was the subject of a PBS documentary called Denial that was shown world-wide and is available on many media outlets. Today she a national leader in solving climate change through the convergence of broadband and the electric grid while leading one of Vermont's largest infrastructure project in 60 years -  making fiber optic Internet available to all Vermonters.