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Marcella Prokop: Creating Rural Fellowship in Storytelling
As both a writer and an educator, Prokop encourages her students and communities to think about their unique interactions with place.

ART: Pulling on the Connective Threads of Intergenerational Memory
I encourage people to connect the threads that have gotten us to where we are now, partly so that we can cut the ones that constrain and hurt us. We continue weaving the threads that help us thrive.

Bell’s Palsy in Brown Face
I imagined that, like my ancestors, my face should be bindingly symmetrical

Irene Ochoa: Emotional Lifeline
I can understand the challenges that make it hard to escape the abuse. Part of my support is reaffirming that I believe what they say.

Minnesota Focuses on Seeing Trauma
“It is a way of being. It is not really a program. We are integrating skill sets on how to interact with each other.”

Circle of Grandmothers
An image is never just an image, it means so many things all at the same time.

Ileana Mejia: Community Care
Reflections on How We Measure Our Value

Anika Fajardo: Family Ties
Minnesota author shares from her book "Magical Realism for Non-Believers"

Putting the Healthy Into Sexuality
Montoya-Barthelemy is passionate about helping communities find a holistic approach to sexual and reproductive health. As she puts it, “Sexual health is life force.”

2018 Changemaker: Maria Regan Gonzalez
Maria Regan Gonzalez (Photo by Sarah Whiting)
Mayor-elect…

Diversified workforce
We talk about Latinos as the workforce of tomorrow ... but in policy-making there is limited intentional direction about how to engage those groups.

Sen. Melisa Franzen: Tackling the status quo
Young Puerto Rican mother steps out of boxes in Minnesota Senate


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