Jeremy Geller has lived in Connecticut since 2007 and in Vernon since 2020. In retirement he is an Alternate Commissioner on the Vernon Conservation Commission, a
Board Member and volunteer of Friends of Valley Falls, and a participant in Vernon Greenways Volunteers.

As Mayor he’ll apply his experience and principles for the benefit of the people of Vernon-Rockville.

Jeremy earned a doctorate in anthropology and undertook archaeological fieldwork in Egypt, identifying the oldest known brewery in the world. For most of his career he managed university study abroad programs for U.S. students and facilitated incoming international students and scholars. He has also worked as a bicycle mechanic, a college professor, an editor, a history museum manager, a licensed home inspector, and a park ranger. He is completing training as a docent at the Wadsworth Atheneum. With
his wife of nearly forty years, he is a parent of two grown sons, and he cared for his own parents in their final years. His interests include conservation and historic preservation, learning about art, listening to music, travel, and DIY.
Through his career and life experience he has learned to listen, to collaborate and to build consensus, to manage budgets and staff, to exercise compassion and empathy toward seniors, to understand housing challenges, to marshal human and institutional assets in crises, and to make best use of precious fiscal, material, and natural resources. His ethos is to comprehend and uphold the dignity of all people, and to be guided by the Golden Rule that is basic to all traditions: to treat others as he would like to be treated.