January 29, 2024 When Josefina Leit began her speech at Burlington’s city council meeting last week, the first-year student at the University of Vermont was hoping to sway the votes of council members. But by the end of the meeting, Leit found herself catapulted to viral fame, with a recording of her address amassing millions of views. The college freshman was pushing for a ballot measure that called for Burlington, a city of just over 44,000 residents, to be an “apartheid-free community,” criticizing the events unfolding in the Gaza Strip, to be struck down. Going off script at the end,...