Rural Education Summit 2025 Community Keynote




We are delighted to welcome Rae Garringer (they/them) as our community keynote at this year’s Summit.

Rae is a writer, oral historian, and audio producer who grew up on a sheep farm in southeastern West Virginia, and now lives a few counties away on traditional S’atsoyaha (Yuchi) and Šaawanwaki (Shawnee) lands.

They are the author of the Country Queers: A Love Letter. Read more about their work here.  

Country Queers | HaymarketBooks.org“‘We are everywhere.’ You’ve heard it said, and with Country Queers Rae Garringer makes it plain. This book is such a gift to rural queer folks. It renders us visible. Renders our past and present experiences, questions, and struggles to navigate complicated feelings about people and place visible.www.haymarketbooks.org