Elizabeth Burrows

ELIZABETH LEPRESTRE CORNELL BURROWS lives in West Windsor. She represents Windsor-1, which in addition to West Windsor, also includes Hartland and Windsor. She shares this responsibility with John Bartholomew of Hartland. Family history in the area dates back to Vermont’s earliest days. She, herself, traveled through most of this country and many others, with Windsor and West Windsor as lifelong grounding points, before settling in Vermont. As Elizabeth Cornell, she attended Beloit College in Beloit, Wisconsin; as a part of her course of studies, Elizabeth wrote an ethnography of the homeless population in Seattle, Washington. Later, Elizabeth pursued graduate studies at the University of Chicago. Elizabeth lived in Prague for several years, where she worked for a human rights organization focused on the Romani population, and founded Pozor magazine, which covered five countries and was circulated throughout central Europe and in the United States. Her political icons are Vaclav Havel, Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, and Nelson Mandela. Between 1998 and 2008, Elizabeth lived in New York City and Austin, TX, held jobs in a variety of editorial capacities, and served as a hospice…