Vermont Community Foundation has awarded HB Lozito, executive director of the Brattleboro, Vermont–based nonprofit Out in the Open, its Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial Community Leadership. Lozito was honored for their work with the nonprofit, which connects rural LGBTQ people throughout the state.
Reports the Brattleboro Reformer:
The annual award, established by a group of Con’s colleagues in 2015, celebrates his life’s work by recognizing a community leader who shares his vision of a better Vermont and seizes the responsibility for making that vision real. The awardee shows deep community involvement, generosity, enthusiasm, a collaborative approach, and a focus on data and measurable outcomes in their work.
Through Lozito’s leadership, Out in the Open has expanded its efforts to build a multi-issue, multiracial social justice movement of rural LGBTQ+ people. For over a decade, Lozito has been instrumental not only in creating safe and thriving places for rural LGBTQ+ people but also in building long-term visibility, knowledge, and power in the community, searching out previously uncollected data to support this work. They have helped redefine what it means to be queer and live rurally. …
Lozito will receive the $15,000 Con Hogan Award, to be used however they choose, at a ceremony at Vermont College of Fine Arts at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 11.
Visit vermontcf.org/ConHogan for more information about the award and to register for the event, which is free and open to the public.
Read the complete Brattleboro Reformer story here.
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