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SERIES: How Ramsey County Addresses Public Safety

12/03/2023

Ramsey County has consistently been able to solve homicides — at a rate of above 90 percent — because there's trust with the system and in communities, which is a big part of criminal justice.

Changemaker: Outspoken PFAS critic Amara Strande, who died from cancer in 2023

11/30/2023

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2023 Changemaker: Mercedes Yarbrough: Re-Envisioning Education One Comic at a Time

11/29/2023

The goal, she says, is to “empower kids of color to see their history through a positive lens.”

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Memory maps: Mona Smith finds stories about the past in order to create a better future

02/01/2012

Mona Smith at Minnehaha Falls, a sacred Dakota site. (Photo…

2011 Changemaker: Northside Women’s Space

12/02/2011

"Why do you think a woman would want to sell her body? Would you want to do that? What if that was you?"

2011 Changemaker: Candy Hadsall

12/02/2011

"Is it acceptable to have 15,000 cases of chlamydia and no one speaks up about it?"

2011 Changemakers: MCAD students meet WILPF

12/02/2011

"Many of us see [this] as an opportunity to raise the next generation of women peacemakers."

2011 Changemaker: SlutWalk Minneapolis

12/02/2011

"[the SlutWalk] message isn't telling people 'don't get raped,' it's telling people 'don't rape.'"

2011 Changemakers: ‘Women Making Change’

12/02/2011

"If you don't like something, work to change it."

2011 Changemakers: Girls Getting Ahead in Leadership

12/02/2011

"At GGAL, we're all the same."

2011 Changemaker: Monica Nilsson

12/02/2011

"Most people think they have nothing in common with a homeless person, ... Any way that we can build a bridge, to see that we have more in common than we have difference."

2011 Changemaker: Global Women’s Leadership Convening

12/02/2011

"The bold question [for the café conversation] was 'how do we prepare and propel more women into leadership roles in public life and civil society?'"

2011 Changemaker: Safe Harbor legislation

12/02/2011

"While this is huge, we are by no means close to being done."

Marathon Mary

11/02/2011

"I'd rather run long and slow than short and fast. It's my therapy."

Feels like flying

10/02/2011

Ski jumper Karin Friberg soars into her comfort zone Karin…

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