2011 Changemakers: ‘Women Making Change’
"If you don't like something, work to change it."
Sermons on the tractor
"Sometimes when I am weeding or driving the tractor, I am rolling a sermon around in my head."
Sailing up stream
"Life on land can be very stressful in very minute ways, whereas life on a boat is simple. It's relaxed. Stress is reserved for actual stressful events like when you're running aground or a storm is coming."
Voice leader
What did I want to do as an Anishinaabe female musician?"
Crop tenders
"They [immigrants] are key to our workforce. ...They work hard. They are well-liked workers and often they have family generations on the same farm."
Dairy diva
"I just wasn't cut out to work with plants. Living, breathing animals are just more my thing."
‘Our hip, cool nun’
It would be 57 years before Sister Justina found out her birth name and learned why her mother abandoned her in a basket outside an orphanage.
2007 Changemaker: Nancy Scheibe
Gathering women's wisdom while paddling the Mississippi
2007 Changemaker: TADA!
Teens Against Dating Abuse spread the message about dating abuse to ‘tween girls
Hip on hemp: Kristin Davis
Kristin Davis is the "hemp queen" using hemp and recycled fabric in her clothing business
Small towns, BIG opportunities
Women-owned businesses are flourishing in Ely and Owatonna
The constant gardener
Mimi Hottinger has come to terms with the abuse that shattered her childhood