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I feel the patriarchy society has socialized us to constantly compete with each other, and we have to shut that down. We have to break that and disrupt that by doing things together.

Allison Austin grew up in a rural environment near Dayton, Minnesota. As a 7-year-old, she spent hours crushing herbs and

I grew up in a small northern Minnesota town that was rough around the edges. Even in the 1960s, in

Minnesotans find themselves living in this state for a variety of reasons. For example, Khou Lor moved in 2012 from

Twenty years ago my goal was to be a top executive at an advertising agency, raising a family in a

At a recent Minnesota Farmers Union Women’s Conference, guest speaker Karen Clark asked each woman to name how she leads.

Everyday women respond: “How Do You Engage In Our State?” Andrea Duarte, WorthingtonIn May, I graduated from St. Catherine University

There are more than 90 pregnancy crisis centers in Minnesota. This essay was submitted by Vendela Cavanaugh, who decided to

For more than a year, communities have met as part of the Thriving by Design Network, organized by Growth &

The question was asked: If you could distribute that money to preventative community services — to get ahead of many of the issues that lead to criminal activity, instead of simply to react to it afterward — how would you spend it?

The new ground-breaking exhibit, “Hearts of Our People,” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), offers a look at how