Changemakers

Me’Lea Connelly helped organize a North Minneapolis forum in 2016 with presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. “The forum became really popular,” she recalls. “Lots

The current administration continues to roll back legal protections for transgender folks, demonstrating the ongoing threat faced by those who don’t fit the either/ or

Leslie Redmond is a community leader, millennial, and President of Minneapolis NAACP. She is an advocate driven by her ancestors, and comes

Mayor-elect Maria Regan Gonzalez of Richfield grew up in two different worlds. One was her full-time home in Janesville, Wisconsin, where she and

For Der Yang, becoming a lawyer was a natural progression from what she’s done her entire life: helping people. Born in Laos, Yang

Small red prayer ties. The smell of sage.  Eileen Hudon and her friend Pam Gokey sit in Hudon’s apartment making hundreds of

In 2012, Representative Susan Allen was the first Native woman elected to the Minnesota Legislature.  In 2015, Allen was joined

Changemakers: Working with facts to make change for women and girls through the legislative Office on the Economic Status of Women

Nausheena Hussain has a quiet composure, sitting at the back of the Daybreak Bookshop on the University of Minnesota campus,