Reimagining Public Safety

SERIES: Creating Authentic Safety in Minnesota

Stories that reflect the challenges and solutions to creating a safer Minnesota that relies less on locks than on addressing behavioral concerns and needs.

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SERIES: Reducing Gender-Based Violence

A team of Changemakers Alliance partners helped plan discussion and story angles for this series focused on gender-based violence.

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Changemakers Alliance: Media That Makes a Difference

Changemakers Alliance (CALL) was launched by Minnesota Women’s Press in 2022 to move our statewide community of engaged readers off

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SERIES: Diversity in Politics

See Also: Values & Vision Electing Women

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Celebrating Badass Minnesota Women

In-Person Event April 16, 2022 A free in-person event that was supported by Changemakers Alliance members, Valvoline, Vote.Run.Lead., Seward, and

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Founding Changemakers Alliance Members Talk About Fear

A flavor of Changemakers Alliance conversations

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How Hennepin County Is Fine-Tuning Mental Health Response

Hennepin County is expanding its mental health response budget by $20 million through 2024.

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My Job as an Embedded Social Worker

With the upcoming local elections focused on where voters land on public safety needs — the $180-million, 600-plus-person Minneapolis police department being a central piece of the conversation — we are focused on providing information about what solutions are getting committed, long-term resources.

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Weeds, Words & Wisdom: An Intergenerational Conversation

We put three of our favorite environmental activists and policy advocates in the same virtual room together for a conversation. Here is what former Rep. Karen Clark, Women’s Environmental Institute co-founder Jacqueline Zita, and sustainable agriculture student and activist Priscilla Trinh talked about in June 2021.

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Statewide Conversation: Ecosystems, July 21

Some of the participants in our July 21 conversation circle about Healthy Ecosystems

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MWP Conversation: Community Vitality, June 17

In the first conversation of our summer series, Minnesota Women’s Press editor Mikki Morrissette talked to three women about their

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Conversation: MMIR Crisis

Talking with four women on background to action steps about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives crisis in Minnesota