Activists & Advocates

“We have never been represented by somebody like me, with this voice, with the communities that I am bringing in.”

“We have been saying, ‘abortion is not an issue you should be running from, it is an issue you should be running on.'”

She witnessed the power of standing up, facing fear, and finding one’s agency — a power she has guided other women to unearth within themselves over the past 25 years.

Seraphia Gravelle (Aguallo) was 17 years old when she moved to Minnesota’s Iron Range from Texas to be close to

Child Labor in Minnesota The Washington Post reports that federal labor investigators indicate a company illegally employed dozens of children

For Ingram, providing a superb experience to restaurant guests starts with taking care of her employees.

The events of 2020, from the outbreak of the pandemic to the uprising after the murder of George Floyd, sparked

At the state capitol, there is a historic slate of LGBTQ+ candidates and Native candidates. Here are parts of our conversations with some of them.

The hardest part of the work Women’s Foundation is doing, Perez adds, is “changing the hearts and minds of people who do not see the barriers up close. Unless we change hearts and minds, actions won’t follow.”

“Women naturally function more as a collective. There is power in numbers. When it is transactional, people who want to succeed think that dividing and conquering is how you do it. That is actually a colonized way of leading.”

What did you buy? What did you invest in? Because for Black business, this is livelihood.

“That is the way we plan to lead, clear on our values.”