“Drug Addiction: Real People, Real Stories” seeks to share local stories of loved ones lost to substance-use disorder in an upcoming Brattleboro art show.
Ken Picard
Staff Writer
Ken Picard is a senior staff writer at Seven Days. A Long Island, N.Y., native who moved to Vermont from Missoula, Mont., he was hired in 2002 as Seven Days’ first staff writer, to help create a news department. Ken has since won numerous regional and national awards for his features, profiles and investigative stories and had his work picked up by international news outlets. He was the first journalist to shine a light on the thousands of undocumented workers in Vermont’s dairy industry, and he exposed systemic human trafficking in the state’s Asian massage parlors and Chinese restaurants. Now a features writer in Seven Days’ culture department, Ken covers business, cannabis, the outdoors and the many fascinating humans who make Vermont unique. Send him your story ideas: ken@sevendaysvt.com.
