Bruce S. Post, a 1969 Norwich graduate, has worked for several members of the Vermont and other congressional delegations.  He was Chief of Staff for U.S. Rep. John B. Anderson during Anderson’s 1980 presidential campaign and also served as a researcher and speechwriter for U.S. Senator Hubert H. Humphrey in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries.  As Vermont Governor Richard Snelling’s Director of Planning and Research, Bruce developed a comprehensive perspective on multiple issues facing Vermont.

He now writes and lectures on Vermont’s environmental history.  He is the creator of the Mountain Manifesto — http://mountainmanifesto.org — and his article “The Road to Paradise, Lost: The Defeat of the Green Mountain Parkway,” appeared in the Bennington Museum’s Walloomsack Review.  His two-part series “History of Vermont Environmentalism” was published in the Review’s Spring and Autumn, 2017, editions.  He also wrote on environmental problems in the former Soviet Union for the Johns Hopkins University’s SAIS Review, and the New York Times published his letter on the effects of oil extraction in western North Dakota.