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Sage Carter

May 30, 2026

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Hudson, NY

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Vanessa Williams

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Summary:

This interview was conducted with Sage Carter in her office at Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY on Saturday, May 30th, 2026. Carter was born in New York state and was raised in the Hudson Valley region for most of her childhood, but moved to a suburb of DC–Arlington, VA–in her later teens years, and spent a number of years there before moving back to Hudson 17 years ago.Carter discusses her career in theater from its beginning, tracing her interests back to her high school years, through her current role at Hudson Hall. She shares about the way Hudson Hall operates as a community center, and provides an overview about how the space evolved from being in danger of being demolished, and how community members banded together to fundraise and purchase it, and the staff that supported its evolution to the space it is now.

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Interviewer Bio:
Vanessa Williams

Vanessa Williams is a public historian who interprets DC history with the K-12 audience. She was a secondary social studies teacher for years, and has been working with education justice focused nonprofits for more than 5 years. Williams studied anthropology and education as an undergraduate, and has maintained her interests in hyper local history being a vehicle for equity and justice beginning in the classroom, and extending far beyond it.

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