Reblog: 'I’ve found my place'

Above: Ruthann Rudel works remotely on her research at her home in Westminster, Vermont, while helping out at a local sheep farm. Photo by Kristopher Radder for the Brattleboro Reformer. 

Ruthann Rudel is one of many here in southeastern Vermont to have recently moved here. While she continues to maintain her job and a home in Cambridge, Massachusetts (where she and her daughter and son live), in 2024 she bought a house off a dirt road in Westminster. It's largely her computer and Zoom that enables her to continue her work in Cambridge yet live in a home with a view of woods and farmland a 2-hour drive away. For the last 30 years, she has worked with a non-profit environmental and health research organization called Silent Spring Institute, centered in the Boston area. When she started working there in the 1990s, the medical world saw breast cancer rates rising and many affected saw it as an epidemic. The National Cancer Institute was funding research on treatment and screening but very little research to identify preventable causes of breast cancer. Silent Spring was founded to address that very problem.

Read full article about how Ruthann chose southeastern Vermont at the Brattleboro Reformer.

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