Sharon Day, Ojibwe, is executive director of the Indigenous People’s Task Force. Sharon is 2nd degree Midewin and follows the spiritual path of the Anishinaabe people;part of her spiritual practice is to care for water. In 2003 Sharon Day, Josephine Madamin and other Anishinaabe women began Mother Earth Water Walks to bring awareness about wat...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Day, Sharon
Created:
2015-07-08
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Shawny Anderson is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at St. Mary’s College of California. Since January 2002 (with a few breaks in between) Shawny has taken Jan Term trips that are now loosely connected under the title "DIRT." DIRT stands for Dismantle, Immerse, Reflect, Transform. The DIRT trips have sent students into situations of extreme pove...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Anderson, Shawny
Created:
2015-07-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Steve LeBeau is Editor in Chief of Minnesota Business Magazine. He has more than 30 years of experience as a producer, writer and editor in radio, television, print and Internet, spanning the fields of journalism, public relations and entertainment. He served in the Communications Office of Governor Jesse Ventura for four years as a speechwriter...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
LeBeau, Steve
Created:
2015-11-02
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Thomas Fisher is a Professor in the School of Architecture and Dean of the College of Design at the University of Minnesota. He has written extensively about architectural design, practice, and ethics. In this interview, he talks about his work on 21st-century cities and the "on-demand" economy.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Fisher, Thomas
Created:
2015-12-09
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Barbara Draper’s poems have been or are pending publication in The Talking Stick, The Aurorean, and Passagers where her poem received an honorable mention. She’s a long time Michigander, now living in Minneapolis. For fun she enjoys downhill skiing and playing with her granddaughters.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Draper, Barbara
Created:
2016-02-05
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Brenda Kayzar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. Her areas of expertise include downtown revitalization, housing provision, and environmental justice.
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Kayzar, Brenda
Created:
2016-01-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Bruce Glymour is Professor and department head of Philosophy at Kansas State University. In his career, he has been a co-instructor with the Seminar in Scientific Ethics for the Research Experiences for Undergraduates program and a past board member for Kansas Citizens for Science and the Center for Origins at K-State. He is also a past Fellow o...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Glymour, Bruce
Created:
2016-03-25
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Cristina Pippa completed her B.A. at Columbia University and her M.F.A. at the University of Iowa Playwrights Workshop, where she received the Iowa Fellowship for the Arts and the Norman Felton Fellowship to participate in Sundance Theatre Lab. Cristina is one of the first Artists in Residence at the Women & Children’s Hospital of Buffalo, NY,...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Pippa, Cristina
Created:
2016-04-15
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Elaine Howard Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of The Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy. Over the next several years, Elaine’s research will explore how scientists in several national and r...
Creator:
Shea, Peter
Contributor:
Ecklund, Elaine
Created:
2016-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
From Feminism to Structural Racism and Resistance: What is the Connection? Beryl Satter is Faculty in the Dept. of History and the Graduate Program in American Studies at Rutgers University—Newark. Her first book, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity and the New Thought Movement, 1875-1920 (University of California Press, 1999) e...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Satter, Beryl
Created:
2016-10-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
