
Healthy Horses
When Mary Hartman sat down at her kitchen table in Rochester in 2017, she did not know she was about to start a six-figure business.

Coding a Better World
Cassi Johnson & Sharon Kennedy Vickers

From Cold Call to Warmth
Benya Kraus Beacom & Tina May

2023: A Good Year for Action
“We have never been represented by somebody like me, with this voice, with the communities that I am bringing in."

2022 Changemaker Kimberly Pilgrim: Champion for Resilience
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.

2022 Changemaker Sarah Ingram: Changing Restaurant Culture
For Ingram, providing a superb experience to restaurant guests starts with taking care of her employees.

Gloria Perez: Investing in Women and Girls
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.”

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

Twin Cities Early Child Care Centers to Participate in Trauma-Informed Training
“[We are working] towards creating an entire region of adults who understand what children need and how to provide it for them."

Honoring Carla Kjellberg
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"I wished I could give a fundraising pitch as persuasively as she did; I wished I could name hypocrisy as clearly as she did; I wished I could wear colors as boldly as she did."

A Home Filled With Love and Structure
I wish more people would be involved with this work and understand that people who commit crimes need help. We are not monsters.

Why Nature Needs Legal Rights: The Manoomin Case
"There is no accounting for the dead beaver, the dead muskrat, the poison in the water."


For 2025 coverage, Minnesota Women’s Press earned a community leadership award, three photography awards, and four editorial awards, including for coverage of social issues and for our Spring 2025 “Know Your Rights” special section supported by Unidos MN. Our publisher was named Journalist of the Year by Violence Free Minnesota for gender-based violence coverage.