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Crystalized View: Worthington’s Need for a Unifying Space

10/09/2023

I was witness to stories of inequality, pain, trauma, and disconnection, while marveling at the collective power of what could be: why they stay, and the future they envision for their children and grandchildren.

My Second Life on the Water

08/30/2023

Guiding fundamentally changed how I view, interact with, and share our rivers and natural spaces with others.

VIEW: Tale of Two Cities — Selecting a Police Chief

11/01/2022

Particularly in policing, but in every facet of civic life, what we need is to recenter the forming of partnerships as the heart of the activity, as both the means and the end.

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VIEW: Sharing Personal Stories

06/08/2021

My suggestion is: Tell your story.

VIEW: Black Mental Health Awareness

05/21/2021

Alexis Yeboah has a Masters of Public Health from the University…

VIEW: Aunt Margaret

05/14/2021

“When I was in the orphanage, they put me in charge of the younger children because I could relate, because I cared. I guess that’s carried over.”

VIEW: Share This With Men for Mother’s Day

05/07/2021

Women have had to advocate mostly for themselves with less power in leadership, government, business, and politics to make desired changes in laws and policies.

VIEW: Prioritizing Black Mothers

04/24/2021

When we say we cannot afford quality child care for all, culturally supportive birth options, and fair housing, we are being disingenuous. What we are saying is that we prefer to spend the money in other ways.

VIEW: The Emotional Labor of Black Women

04/12/2021

In a better world, my professor would have course-corrected this student. I was left alone to do it in a way that was free to my peers but costly to me.

VIEW: Blind Spot

04/04/2021

On the flight back to Minneapolis I researched why “tribe” and “tribalism” are so problematic. I learned that the words originated with white Christian conquerors and their violence toward not only Native people, but Africans as well.

VIEW: An Advocate for Feminism

04/03/2021

Feminism grounded in solidarity as opposed to 'success'.”

VIEW: Asian Americans in Rural America

03/18/2021

you may know of your Asian neighbors, but how truly deep is your desire to know about our personal gifts, our cultures and histories, our immigration stories, and how hard our grandmothers worked to make a life for us?

VIEW: Vaccines and Small Towns Like Mine

03/15/2021

It is unbelievable that almost a year ago the community of Worthington, where I live, became a coronavirus hotspot. I remember counting down the days until it hit my family.

View: Accountability, Punishment & Cancel Culture

03/09/2021

Punishment culture encourages the view that an individual deserves harm — that the individual person is a “bad” person. Punishment marks someone as not worthy of belonging.

VIEW: Honoring Mrs. Becker

03/07/2021

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In honor of Women’s History Month, I write about a woman who shaped me— she is largely the reason I became a writer.

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