Michelle Bos-Lun, a Democrat, is serving her second term in the Vermont House of Representatives and is running for a third term. She and Rep. Leslie Goldman (D-Rockingham) jointly represent Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. A high school teacher and youth program leader who moved to Vermont in 2003 for graduate school at SIT Graduate Institute, Bos-Lun holds a master's degree is in international education. In 2023 she completed a certificate from Vermont Law School in restorative justice practices.
WESTMINSTER-I spent most of primary day, Aug. 13, outside the polls in Westminster and Rockingham, two of the towns in the district where I serve as state representative for the Windham-3 district.
As a person who taught civics and U.S. government to teenagers for many years, it made me happy to see new voters exercising their right to engage in our electoral process.
Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun (D-Windham-3) is a second-term representative for Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. She is a teacher, gardener, forager, and grower of mushrooms. WESTMINSTER-Vermont has a new state symbol: Hericium americanum, also known as bear's head tooth, a white, long-toothed mushroom indigenous to Vermont. Students from kindergarten through eighth...
Michelle Bos-Lun is a second-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives, co-representing the Windham-3 district, which includes her hometown of Westminster as well as Rockingham and Brookline. On Dec. 29, I left my house at 4:45 a.m. and headed to Harlem with two legislative colleagues, Rep. Tristan Roberts...
Thank you for covering the priorities of Windham County legislators. Numerous issues were reported about my colleagues, but the only bill described for me was the Vermont State Mushroom bill. I am excited about that bill, which honors not only mushrooms as a symbol of Vermont but also promotes youth engagement in the democratic process. However, as I stated in a recent piece in The Commons: The mushroom bill is not the most important issue the Legislature will be facing...
Michelle Bos-Lun is a second-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives, co-representing the Windham-3 district, which includes her hometown of Westminster as well as Rockingham and Brookline. She is a secondary school teacher who also works with individuals experiencing homelessness. Last year, her photo in the "Happy Places" photography project that hung in the State House cafeteria showed her in the woods holding puffball mushrooms. I recently submitted a bill after consultation with some important stakeholders: the elementary students...
On May 12, I cast my final vote of the 2023 legislative session. I did so in the Vermont State House, in what is often called “the People's House.” It felt to this legislator like those who work in the “People's House” had not done enough to ensure that vulnerable people would have a house. The vote was for the state budget, which passed 90 yes to 53 no, sealing the fate of 1,800 households whose members will be forced...
In 2018, the president at the time was perpetuating stigma and causing fear, blaming mass shootings on people with mental health challenges. At the time, I was a teacher and mental health advocate, and I asked to speak at Putney's March for our Lives rally. I addressed the crowd of 400 Vermonters, speaking about an issue close to my heart. In my talk - “Guns and Mental Illness: It's Not What You Think” - I raised concerns about the extraordinarily...
Town Meetings are a New England tradition that enables all voting-eligible residents of a town to learn about and discuss proposals for the coming year. I ask residents of Vermont to take this opportunity to participate in shaping policy on the local level. Budgetary implications and the resulting policy on a wide range of issues are determined at Town Meeting. With decreasing attendance at our Town Meetings, decisions are being made by a smaller and smaller portion of each town.