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MEET OUR FACULTY: Video/Multimedia Communications Instructor: Cristina Kumka started her career in broadcast journalism at Emerson College in Boston. While earning her degree, she contributed to the college’s award-winning radio station, as a host and volunteer producer, worked as a press assistant in the office of then-Boston Mayor Tom Menino, and as a production assistant for NECN. From 2008 to 2012 she wrote for the Rutland Herald covering statewide education issues and breaking news. She most recently worked as the government channel coordinator, technical director, videographer and manager at PEGTV in Rutland. She has been a contributor to Vermont Public Radio, local radio, The Mountain Times newspaper and often acts as a journalism consultant to local high schools and colleges.
Mark Raishart has been instructor of Forestry and Natural Resource Management at Stafford Technical Center since 2010. He graduated from Green Mountain College in 2002 with a B.A. in Environmental Science and 2016 with a M.S. in Environmental Studies. Since college, he has worked throughout the US in agriculture, horticulture, forestry, conservation, and outdoor education. His work has included natural area stewardship at the Holden Arboretum in northeast Ohio, commercial beekeeping in the Champlain Valley, and managing educational farming and forestry operations at Smokey House Center in Danby, VT