visionaries

Mixed Blood curates on-stage conversations with iconoclastic thought leaders whose world view aligns with this theatre’s mission, vision, and values:

Mondays @ 6:30pm • Nov 8, 15, 22, 29 & Dec 6Alberta King, Louise Little, and Berdis Baldwin have shaped

There are 157,821 women-owned businesses in Minnesota, generating $24.6 billion of receipts. Of privately held businesses, 33.0% are women-owned. Source: National Women’s Business Council, 2012 data

The moment we say, ‘we don’t need this bug, we don’t need this plant,’ the system starts to weaken. If this happens again and again, the system collapses. Every time we have excluded a person or group of people, it has been at our own peril. We will have a viable future only when diverse knowledge, skills, attitudes, and cultural understanding are brought to the table.

My commitment with Revolution is to invest in entrepreneurs outside of traditional tech hubs.

When Dr. Helzi Noponen was a visiting professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs from 2005 to 2008, she

“Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good,” by adrienne maree brown How do we make social justice a pleasurable path

The Community as Our School As a former member of the Minneapolis School Board and former executive director of AchieveMpls,

commentary of everyday women about building the future

“My vision of any future that we might have is that it will be led by women.”—Alice Walker

In 2008, I was running the Headwaters Foundation for Justice when the stock market crashed. Our strategic plan, which was

Only 50 years after women were given the right to vote, and four years after the U.S. Civil Rights Movement,