Vanessa Burnett
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Vanessa Burnett
@vanessaburnett.bsky.social
Catalyst, coalition-builder, systems thinker, problem-solver, & visionary. Background in homeland security, big disasters, wildfire, & resilience. Promoting creative community engagement through a nonprofit called Shift the Country.
🗯️ "If we’re going to talk big about #civicengagement there are few bigger things to civically engage in than #voting." 🗳️

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November 4, 2025 at 12:57 PM
💭 "We get to the big imagining when we get people together in different ways and figure out things we can do. It can be two or three people that you know well... or it can be big national groups... or it can be anything in between."

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October 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
🎙️"People who lean into all this are going to be better suited to make big change from in the middle of the overall changes. We need that. Society changes big time in the midst of big disruption.❓ Are we going to steer it from inside... or are we going to watch?" 🔭

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October 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
🚀 The risk landscape is amplifying, escalating, & intensifying. We need to not lose our ever-loving minds. 🧠

Join a small, informal online session tonight to talk about this stuff.

Tonight's zoom... us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The post... fiercecommunity.substack.com/p/the-risk-l...
September 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
🎥📞🖥️ It's 9/11. If you'd like to join some fierce community today, we're doing a zoom tonight...

us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

✏️ And here's a post with more...

fiercecommunity.substack.com/p/911-can-he...
September 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM