leadership in Bemidji

opportunities for MN girls K-12th grade for funding and mentorship

update on the news around the Line 3 replacement project from Enbridge Energy

understanding the fall nature process

passion for birds

The study of critical race theory is to expand upon how race and identity interact with our systems and institutions…anything that is critical is an opportunity to pull things apart just a little bit further. And when we start to pull the threads of whiteness or race at large, there is a lot at stake…it's an evolution of history… we're looking at history and contemporary cultural context and then we're looking for more narratives in order to go further…further expanding upon what is being told

Today we welcomed back to Tamara Lowney - Executive Director of IEDC - Itasca Economic Development Corporation. She told us about the big news of new industry in Itasca County.

So the story moves around between the different perspectives of these women, and it doesn't follow a straight chronological timeline. It's more arranged thematically. So but to go furthest back in time would be Marie Blackbird, who who was 14 years old at eighteen sixty two. And she and her mother are the ones who actually sow the seeds into the hands of their skirts. So they bring that story alive. So they represent that traditional relationship with seeds and the land and gardening. - Diane Wilson

Today we talked with Lisa Joy Hesse. As the COVID-19 pandemic began and wore on there was a lot of uncertainty, and a lot of emotional toll. Now, with 55% of Minnesotans getting vaccinated, numbers are down and mask mandates have gone away and life is getting back to normal. But it might not feel normal. Lisa Joy Hesse is a mixed media and fiber artist, a dynamic presenter and certified infection preventionist. She lives in the woods of northern Minnesota and she has come out with a workbook called “Getting Past the Pandemic – Exercises for healing the emotional trauma of COVID-19."

Annette Gordon-Reed is an American law professor and Pulitzer Prize winning historian. She is currently the Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History at Harvard University, where she is also the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a professor of history in the university’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences.