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Description:: Kelly V. Robinson is a Nurse Care Coordinator with Westat Research and founder of the Minnesota chapter of Black Nurses Rock, Inc. In this oral history interview, she discusses the pandemic's occurrence in the first months of founding Minnesota's Black Nurses Rock chapter, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19, the work of Black nurses in Minnesota during the p...
Creator:: Robinson, Kelly V (interviewee)
Contributor:: Negri, Adam (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer)
Created:: 2021-09-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2022-03-01

Description:: Interview with Ken Cook on 12/16/16 discussing contributions and involvement with the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition and its predecessor organizations.
Creator:: Cook, Ken
Contributor:: Kroese, Ron (Interviewer)
Created:: 2016-12-16
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA).
Last Updated:: 2017-11-27

Description:: In this interview, Ken Tilsen gives a brief account of his life as a Jewish Minnesotan and lawyer, touching also on Minnesota politics. He was born in Leipzig, North Dakota, to parents of eastern European heritage. An account is given as to why Jews immigrated to rural North Dakota. He gives family history and early memories of growing up in the...
Creator:: Tilsen, Ken
Contributor:: Rubenstein, Helen (Interviewer)
Created:: 2009-06-22
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-02-06

Description:: At the time of this interview, Kevin Winge was the former executive director of Open Arms Minnesota, an organization that provides free meals to people living with chronic illnesses, including HIV/AIDS, in the Twin Cities. He also participated in international efforts to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Prior to his work with Open ...
Creator:: Winge, Kevin
Contributor:: Angelica, Emil (interviewer); Carr, Peter (interviewer); Bergman, Andrea Klein (interviewer); Sommer, Barbara W. (interviewer); Billund-Phibbs, Myra (archival processing)
Created:: 2015-08-26
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-07

Description:: Interview conducted as part of the Nahum Kipnis Project.
Creator:: Bast, Khaya
Created:: 1999-04-18
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Description:: Kimberly Anderson shares her experiences of work and life during the COVID-19 pandemic in Duluth, Minnesota. She describes the very early weeks of hearing about the pandemic and reveals that she and her friends joked about it, thinking it may just be a hyped up story by the government. She says they realized it was serious soon after, when they ...
Creator:: Anderson, Kimberly
Contributor:: Moxley, Brandi
Created:: 2020-09-11
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2020-10-30

Description:: Interview conducted as part of the UJFC Jewish Settlers in Minnesota Project.
Creator:: Marsh, Kim
Contributor:: Proshan, Chester
Created:: 1985-01-09
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Last Updated:: 2020-05-11

Description:: This interview was recorded for Elizabeth Bartlett's 2016 book “Making Waves: Grassroots Feminism in Duluth and Superior.” It is part of a group of interviews with people who played key roles within organizations that are included in the book. This interview is with Kim Storm, who discusses her work with two organizations: the Center Against Sex...
Creator:: Storm, Kim
Contributor:: Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann
Created:: 2015-01-09
Contributed By:: Archives and Special Collections, Kathryn A. Martin Library, University of Minnesota Duluth
Last Updated:: 2025-03-19

Description:: Topics include: Flowering of Ukrainian culture in Kyiv in the 1920s; founders of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church; surviving the Holodomor; Torgsin; NKVD and being labelled an “enemy of the people”; life in an Ost Arbeiter camp; the post-war Ukrainian community in Asuncion, Paraguay; the Ukrainian-American community in the Twin Cities...
Creator:: Tsarehradsky, Kira Stetsenko
Contributor:: Gutmanis, Zina Poletz; Kurschner, Tracy; Poletz, Alexander; Shevchenko, Yulia; Ukrainian-American Community Center
Created:: 2019-08-08
Contributed By:: University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Last Updated:: 2019-12-06