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Expand the ‘village’

11/01/2012/in Education, Equity, Identity/by admin

Jennifer Godinez (Courtesy Photo) How will Minnesota “close the achievement gap”? Reaching the goal of racial equity in education and eliminating race as a predictor of academic outcomes will not […]

Out in rural Minnesota: Jessi Tebben and Ashley Schuman build family-despite challenges

10/01/2012/in Family/Home, Greater MN, LGBTQ+, Trauma/Healing/by admin

Both Jessi Tebben and Ashley Schuman try to keep open hearts and minds as social and human services workers, and as moms. The Cambridge couple are out-of-the-closet lesbians, Caucasians in […]

High-profile engineer: Susan Rani is modest about her trailblazing, leadership

09/01/2012/in Money/Biz/by admin

Susan Rani is at the top of her game. Rani Engineering is the state’s largest female- and minority-owned professional engineering firm. She recently attended trade missions in China and Korea […]

Jessica Lopez Lyman: Identity Found

08/01/2012/in Identity, Spirituality/Nature/by admin

Once a summer Jessica Lopez Lyman returns home to St. Paul from California to use poetry and art to help young people find spirituality, peace and self. In her California […]

Cycling the world

08/01/2012/in Action, Adventure/Sports/by admin

I traveled in 28 countries, more than 40,000 kilometers, the equator’s distance, in 2 ½ years. On July 24, 2011, I returned home to St. Paul, after having cycled the […]

Women presidents in the making

08/01/2012/in Education/by admin

Women constitute nearly 60 percent of the undergraduates and over 60 percent of the graduate students in America. Women also constitute the majority of graduates at the undergraduate, master’s and […]

Truth-teller

06/01/2012/in Action, Books, Identity, LGBTQ+/by admin

It was the early ’90s, and I had a dilemma. I was beginning to realize that I was a fraud. I was earning my living writing novels for middle schoolers […]

Game ball

06/01/2012/in Action, Adventure/Sports/by admin

Basketball standout Linda Roberts wasn’t always one of the biggest stars of the game. Staff at the park where she picked up a ball for the first time as a […]

Global thinking, local results: Somali native, Fatuma Elmi, gives refugees a helping hand

04/01/2012/in Action, Identity/by admin

Timing-both good and bad-looms large in Fatuma Elmi’s life. She was born in an area of Somalia under Italian colonial trusteeship in 1953. This was good timing. Her childhood and […]

Problems to solve: Sandra Brick shows a woman’s place is in the patent office

04/01/2012/in Action, Arts, Money/Biz/by admin

Let’s admit it-when we hear “inventions,” we think of scientific gadgets and gizmos, complicated devices making whirring noises. Turns out it isn’t necessarily so. Consider Carol Wior, inventor of the […]

Mothers of invention: Women invent Kevlar, signal flares and more

04/01/2012/in Action, Money/Biz/by admin

The nuggets of truth became the gems. Catherine Thimmesh didn’t set out to write a book about women inventors. The author, who now has written six children’s books, was planning […]

Women are the solution : Q&A with Sheryl WuDunn

04/01/2012/in Badass Minnesotans, Books, Education, Gender-based Violence, Money/Biz, Policy/Politics, Trauma/Healing/by admin

Sheryl WuDunn (Courtesy Photo) Empowering women and girls is the most effective way to fight poverty and extremism, according to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Sheryl WuDunn and her husband, Nicholas Kristof. […]