Erica Heilman
Reporter/ProducerErica Heilman produces a podcast called Rumble Strip. Her shows have aired on NPR’s Day to Day, Hearing Voices, SOUNDPRINT, KCRW’s UnFictional, BBC Podcast Radio Hour, CBC Podcast Playlist and on public radio affiliates across the country. Rumble Strip airs monthly on Vermont Public. She lives in East Calais, Vermont.
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The Calais town clerk's office asked for volunteers to write a report on the summer floods that hit Vermont in July of 2023. Reporter and Calais resident Erica Heilman, and her friend and neighbor Tobin Anderson, answered the call.
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Ashley Messier on the cycle of poverty and abuse, and the challenge of getting out without resourcesIn this installment of "What class are you," Ashley Messier talks about growing up in Essex with an abusive father and with little money, and how she found herself repeating the cycle in early adulthood.
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Private investigator Susan Randall talks with reporter Erica Heilman about the privileges of growing up upper middle class in this episode of "What class are you?"
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Vermont Edition shares the last installment of Vermont Public's occasional series called ‘What Class Are You?’, where reporter Erica Heilman drives around Vermont and talks with people from all sorts of backgrounds about money and privilege.
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In this installment of "What class are you?" writer Garret Keizer discusses what happens when we address issues of race and gender equity, but we ignore income inequality.
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In this installment of "What class are you?" St. Albans resident Stephanie Robtoy talks about the stigma of poverty, and the possibility offered by recovery.
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Irfan Sehic arrived to Vermont from Bosnia at age 17. In this installment of "What class are you?" he riffs on, and rips into, the American class system.
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On the latest installment of Rumble Strip, Erica Heilman compares notes on how to manage pain with Forrest Foster, an independent dairyman in Hardwick.
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John Rodgers and his family turned their dairy farm into a full-fledged cannabis growing operation.
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Fox Market and Bar is a community hub in central Vermont for queer and queer friendly people. All are welcome for a beer, a coffee, a board game and, now and then, speed dating.