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![]() The Impact of COVID-19 on Local Businesses
Jun 09, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Shannon Full has over 20 years of experience and expertise in chamber leadership, economic development, talent solutions, and organizational management. Full joined the TwinWest Chamber of Commerce in St. Louis Park, MN as the President/CEO in February 2017. Prior to TwinWest, she was most recently the President/CEO of the Fox Cities Chamber of Commerce and Regional Partnership in Appleton, WI. She began her Chamber career at the Twin Cities North Chamber of Commerce in Mounds View and subsequently led Chambers in Melbourne, FL and Cedar Rapids, IA. Full has received numerous awards for her work including the Wisconsin Economic Development Association’s Governors Young Professional of the Year in 2016, and the Best in Show Winner for Talent Upload Program from the International Economic Development Council in 2015. |
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![]() How COVID-19 is Affecting the Court System
Jun 16, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Kathryn L. Quaintance is a judge on the Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota, serving Hennepin County. She was appointed to this position in 2000 and was elected to full terms in 2002, 2008, and 2014. She currently serves in the Criminal Court. Her current term expires in 2020. Quaintance received her B.A. degree from Smith College in 1977 and her J.D. degree from Rutgers Law School in 1986. In her earlier career, she was an attorney for Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. Before Quaintance became a district judge, she was Deputy Hennepin County attorney. Edward T. Wahl is a judge on the Fourth Judicial District of Minnesota, serving Hennepin County. He was appointed in 2012. He was re-elected in 2014 for a term that expires in 2020. Wahl earned his undergraduate degree, with honors, from Northwestern University in 1978. He went on to receive a master's degree from the University of Virginia in 1980 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1983. Before Wahl became a district judge, he spent time as a partner in both Faegre Baker Daniels and Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP. |
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![]() The Public Image of Rotary
Jun 23, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Krysta Peterson is the District 5950 Public Image Chair, a Past President of the South Minneapolis Metro Evening (SMME) Club, and Assistant Governor (AG) for District 5950 Area 3. Krysta works for 3M in supply chain management. She joined Rotary in 2011 when she lived in Wisconsin. After moving to Minnesota, she became a member of SMME. |
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![]() Annual Awards Ceremony
Jun 30, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Premiering on YouTube - Click Here to Watch The Golden Valley Rotary Club will "gather" with members of the community to celebrate all things Rotary during the 2019-2020 year. We will present the Citizen of the Year award and the Rotarian of the Year award. Our high school scholarship recipients will be honored. Paul Harris Fellows will be given for extraordinary service. And Bryan Palmer, Club President, will pass the presidential gavel to Michelle Ness, President-Elect. A great celebratory event in the forty-seven year history of the Golden Valley Rotary Club! |
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Jun 30, 2020 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM
Premiering on YouTube on June 30th! Annual Awards Ceremony VIRTUAL MEETING The Golden Valley Rotary Club will "gather" with members of the community to celebrate all things Rotary during the 2019-2020 year. We will present the Citizen of the Year award and the Rotarian of the Year award. Our high school scholarship recipients will be honored. Paul Harris Fellows will be given for extraordinary service. And Bryan Palmer, Club President, will pass the presidential gavel to Michelle Ness, President-Elect. A great celebratory event in the forty-seven year history of the Golden Valley Rotary Club! |
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![]() Minnesota Association for Children's Mental Health (MACMH)
Jul 07, 2020
Rachael Jacques serves as the Director of Development and Programming for the Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health. Rachael has worked many years in the area of health education, working to identify gaps in care and to provide supportive services. She is passionate about providing equal access to child and adolescent mental health services in Minnesota.
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![]() Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador
Jul 14, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Bridgette Springer is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer. She is also the granddaughter of Rotarian Paul Mork. She was deployed as a TEFL Teacher in Machala, Ecuador for 14 months, before COVID-19 forced her early return. Before joining the Peace Corps, Bridgette worked at Feed My Starving Children for three and half years. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English with minors in Hispanic Studies and Management from College of Saint Benedict. Join Zoom Meeting |
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![]() The 2020-2021 Rotary Year
Jul 21, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING We welcome the new District 5950 Governor, Tom Gump. Tom is a member of the Rotary Club of Edina Morningside. He is passionate about growing Rotary Membership through forming new and innovative, cause-based clubs. Gump, his wife Catherine, and son Andrew are very involved in Youth Exchange, hosting six exchange students. Tom serves on the North Star Rotary Youth Exchange Board of Directors. He has also served Rotary on the Zone Level as Promotion Chair for the Honolulu and Toronto Rotary International Conventions. Tom's leadership achievements during his year as president of the Rotary Club of Edina Morningside include 30+ new engaged and active members who are also members of The Rotary Foundation's Annual Fund giving at double the previous level. In his business life, Tom is a lawyer and real estate developer serving as "of counsel" with Stier Law Offices. Join Zoom Meeting |
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![]() Virtual Studio Tour
Jul 28, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Jodi Reeb is a mixed-media, fine artist in Minneapolis; abstract art, original fine art for sale such as modern Encaustic paintings, wall art installations, sculptural art, contemporary art, landscape art, and wall art sculpture. She also teaches Encaustic workshops using R&F Paints as a Core Artist and acrylic painting and printmaking classes in her North Loop Minneapolis studio and is a GOLDEN Artist Educator (GAEP). "I love collaborating to create custom abstract art, original wall sculpture, painted acrylic wall art, corporate art and commercial art installations for public healthcare hospital and clinics, hotels and hospitality, corporate offices and private spaces," says Reeb. Primarily working on commission, she enjoys collaborating with clients to create artwork that leads her to the next step in the progression of her process and development while complementing an existing space. The focus of Reeb's artwork has always been about the magnificence and beauty of nature and finding inspiration from nature’s extraordinary colors & light. As she explores this idea, she has been intrigued with nature’s ever-changing seasons. Jodi Reed will take us on a virtual studio tour and talk about her process of creating. Join Zoom Meeting |
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![]() TreeHouse
Aug 04, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Christa Troup has been the Grant Manager for TreeHouse for the past 5 years. She works to make community connections with organizations to help TreeHouse's mission of ending hopelessness among teens. Christa has a BA in Sociology from The College of Saint Benedict and a Nonprofit Management Certificate from The University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. Join Zoom Meeting |
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![]() Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge Know the Truth Program
Aug 11, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Darla Loss and Micah Meline will speak about the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge Know the Truth Program. Join Zoom Meeting Darla Loss is the Donor Relations Director at Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge. She is passionate about developing connections and sharing the mission of Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge. She has been with MnTC for 9 months and is excited to be a “lucky one” who loves her job! Darla was previously employed at KARE 11 for 17 years where she was the Local Sales Manager of Media, managing a team and creating innovative partnerships and marketing strategies while having some fun along the way! Darla is the mother of 2 children and enjoys outside activities like skiing, hiking, and gardening, as well as family time like coaching her daughter, boating, road trips, and watching her son play baseball. Her mission every day is to make a positive impact on the lives of everyone she meets including fellow employees, family, and friends. Micah Meline is the Youth Prevention Specialist for the Know The Truth Prevention Program at Minnesota Adult & Teen Challenge. He has overcome 20 years of substance use disorder and has developed a passion for helping youth see the importance of making healthy choices. He went through the 13 month long-term program that Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge offers and, after graduating, decided he would like to work for the organization that helped him change his life. In his spare time, Micah enjoys being with friends and family. He also likes going out and seeing the sights that Minnesota has to offer. Recently, he has taken up the hobby of fishing but claims he still is “just learning”. His goal is to one day become a known name in the recovery community. |
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![]() Hopkins High School Girls' Basketball
Aug 18, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Recently retired Hopkins Girls' Basketball Coach, Brian Cosgriff, will speak about the progression of their program and how it became the model for high school girls' basketball in the state of Minnesota. Join Zoom Meeting Brian Cosgriff is one of the most successful basketball coaches in Minnesota history. In his 21 years as head girls’ basketball coach at Hopkins High School, his teams won 569 games and seven state titles. A possible eighth title could have been won in March if not for the COVID-19 shutdown of the season, one game before the state championship. The Royals carry a 62-game winning streak into next season. But Cosgriff won’t be with them next season; he retired from coaching and teaching in July, 2020. He taught physical education at Alice Smith Elementary School (Hopkins) for the past 30 years. In 1991, legendary Hall of Fame coaches Ken Novak, Jr. and Ken Novak, Sr. had an opening on their Hopkins High School boys’ basketball coaching staff. Brian jumped at the opportunity to be an apprentice to two of Minnesota’s all-time best coaches. Coach Cosgriff assisted the Novaks for eight years, helping build Hopkins into one of the premiere boys’ programs in the state. In 1999, the head girls’ basketball coaching position opened at Hopkins. In his first season as head coach, Hopkins tied for their first ever Classic Lake Conference Championship. In his 21 years as head coach at Hopkins, the Royals won 19 Classic Lake/Lake Conference championships, 14 section championships, and 7 Class AAAA State Championships. While coaching Hopkins, the Royals have made 14 MSHSL state tournament appearances, finishing no lower than 3rd place. He retires with an astounding record of 569-67, yielding a winning percentage of 89%. Brian was the MaxPreps National Girls Basketball Coach of the Year for 2018-2019. He will be inducted into the Minnesota Basketball Hall of Fame this fall. Coach Cosgriff has placed over 30 former players at the D1 collegiate level and four of his assistant coaches have gone on to be head girls’ basketball coaches at other high schools. |
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![]() Lawn Bowling at Brookview
Aug 25, 2020
NO NOONTIME MEETING - CLUB SOCIAL The Golden Valley Rotary Club will gather for a socially distant, outdoor club social with lawn bowling at Brookview. We all need safe, fun times with good people! Tuesday, August 25, 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
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![]() Academic & College Prep for First Generation & Refugee Youth
Sep 01, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Katy Mason is CEO & Founder of Above & Beyond Academic Counseling (ABAC). She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Wheaton College (MA) and a M.A. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Katy is driven to bring opportunities from higher education to students of all backgrounds in her community and beyond. She began ABAC in 2015 after realizing the desire from families for financially and geographically accessible high quality education. ABAC began as and continues to be a community-driven movement to eliminate educational gaps and redefine success for every student involved. Katy is originally from Upstate New York and currently resides in Minneapolis, MN where she spends her days hiking, biking, and swimming in the lakes. Working with the families and students she serves is one of the highlights of her week. |
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![]() Does Derek Chauvin have a chance at a fair trial?
Sep 08, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting For over 35 years, Marshall H. Tanick has represented clients in a wide variety of legal matters, with emphasis on employment law; constitutional law, including defamation, privacy, and other communications; education law; animal law; pet law; land law; and business disputes. He was named to Minnesota Lawyer’s class of Attorneys of the Year for 2019. Marshall will present on the topic of "Does Derek Chauvin have a chance at a fair trial?" |
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![]() Engineers Without Borders
Sep 15, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Engineers Without Borders-MN (EWB-MN) is a Professional Chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), a 501c(3) Non-Profit Organization. EWB-MN is a group of professional engineers, architects, scientists, and others from Minnesota who aim to implement EWB-USA’s mission. The Minnesota Professional Chapter has project teams implementing solutions for communities in need across the globe while also providing professional mentors for the student chapters in the state at the U of MN and MNSU Mankato. From designing safe water solutions to building a health clinic to providing energy access, they are fulfilling the world's engineering needs. |
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![]() The Mapping Prejudice Project
Sep 22, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Kirsten Delegard is one of the co-founders of the Mapping Prejudice Project. She received her Ph.D. in history from Duke University, where she trained as a women's historian. In her early research, she explored the history of women and politics. More recently she has devoted her energy to public history and unearthing the complex past of her hometown, Minneapolis. This focus led to Mapping Prejudice and the Historyapolis Project, which Delegard also started. Mapping Prejudice is located in the John R. Borchert Map Library at the University of Minnesota. Delegard also holds faculty affiliations with the Department of Geography, Environment and Society and the Heritage Studies and Public History Program at the University of Minnesota. She was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Humanities and has been a Legacy Research fellow at the Gale Library at the Minnesota Historical Society. As part of her exploration of the past in Minneapolis, Delegard has written about Prince and the battles over pornography in the city. She also composed many short pieces for the Historyapolis website. In 2012, the University of Pennsylvania Press published her book, Battling Miss Bolsheviki: The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States. This book revisits the 1920s to chart the growth of a conservative women’s movement that would reshape the parameters of female political activism for the remainder of the twentieth century. Delegard was also the co-editor, with Nancy A. Hewitt, for the two volume textbook Women, Families and Communities: Readings in American History (Longman Publishing, 2008). She was also part of the team behind Mary Wingerd’s North Country: The Making of Minnesota (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Delegard was the image curator for that volume, writing a series of interpretive essays that explained the visuals. In her spare time, Delegard thinks about writing a new history of Minneapolis that she has tentatively titled City of Light and Darkness: The Making of a Progressive Metropolis in Minneapolis. |
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![]() Lawn Bowling at Brookview
Sep 29, 2020
NO NOONTIME MEETING - CLUB SOCIAL The Golden Valley Rotary Club will gather for a socially distant, outdoor club social with lawn bowling at Brookview. We all need safe, fun times with good people! Tuesday, September 29, 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. |
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![]() Postal Fraud
Oct 06, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Rachel Williams has been a U.S. Postal Inspector since 2003, conducting investigations involving identity theft, mortgage fraud, investment fraud/schemes, Ponzi schemes, lottery/advance fee scams, internet/eBay/Paypal fraud, child exploitation, mail theft, and other financial crimes. Inspector Williams is currently assigned to the Mail Fraud Team for the State of Minnesota and is also the Public Information Officer for Minnesota and North Dakota. Inspector Williams will present on how identity theft, mail theft, and mail fraud impacts individuals both personally and professionally. |
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![]() The Innocence Project of Minnesota
Oct 13, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Julie Jonas is the Legal Director for the Innocence Project of Minnesota (IPMN). She has worked for IPMN since 2003. In addition to her work for the Project, she teaches at Minnesota law schools where her focus is on the prevention of wrongful convictions and working with clinical students to screen and investigate cases of potential innocence. Jonas completed her undergraduate and law degrees at the University of Minnesota. After law school, she practiced with the Ramsey County Public Defender’s Office in St. Paul, Minnesota. In her current position, she has successfully worked to secure the release of seven innocent men from prison who were incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. She also works on policy issues. Her work was instrumental in Minnesota’s passage of its 2014 Imprisonment and Exoneration Remedies Act awarding compensation to Minnesota exonerees. Under that law, she secured compensation for her innocent clients. In 2020, she worked to secure passage of a law that requires law enforcement throughout Minnesota to use best practices in conducting eyewitness identifications in order to increase reliability of identifications of actual perpetrators and decrease wrongful convictions. |
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![]() Global Golden Valley
Oct 20, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Helene Johnson's career has focused on continuing and professional education in corporate, public, and nonprofit settings. She retired after 38 years as Executive Director of a small nonprofit which provided educational programs for local government decisionmakers, staff, and advisory commission members in Minnesota - as well as their collaborators. She has been a resident of Golden Valley since 1989, and began her volunteer involvement here in 2004 as co-facilitator for the Golden Valley visioning process supported by Rotary. She continued as a member of the Envision Connection Project Board, a Bridge Builder, and a founding board member of the Golden Valley Community Foundation, where she still serves. Helene started Global Golden Valley in 2012 as a way to highlight, celebrate, and connect those from different cultures in our city with other interested individuals. She has traveled extensively in various capacities (study abroad, sister city exchanges, and country to country partnerships, spouse of a group travel agent, lifelong learner) and believes strongly in the benefits of taking advantage of what the world has to offer, far away and in our own city! |
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![]() Business of the Year Presentation
Oct 27, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting October is Rotary International Economic and Community Development Month. The Golden Valley Rotary Club celebrates by naming a local Business of the Year to honor. The 2020 selection is Best Wishes Floral. They will receive their award at our October 27th meeting. PAST ANNUAL BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS OF THE YEAR |
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![]() Sojourner Project
Nov 03, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Becca Welna is a Community Educator with Sojourner Project. For the past 40 years, Sojourner has been providing free and confidential support to those victimized by domestic and sexual violence in Western Hennepin County. As part of the Outreach and Education department, Becca enjoys sharing stories of survivor's resilience and raising awareness of the need for Sojourner's essential services. She finds particular joy in teaching SafeU, Sojourner's youth violence prevention education in local middle and high schools. She recently went back to school for a graduate certificate in content strategy and storytelling and loves working creatively to share the “on the ground” impact stories with the larger community. Prior to her current work, Becca was a youth counselor at a teen crisis shelter in San Francisco, focused on family reunification and stabilization. When not at Sojourner, Becca enjoys practicing and teaching yoga, hanging out with her nephews, and serving on the board of MN Peacebuilding Leadership Institute. |
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![]() Radon and Mold in Homes
Nov 10, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Dan Tranter is the supervisor of the Indoor Air Unit at the Minnesota Department of Health. He has been with the Indoor Air Unit since 2001 and has a Master of Public Health Degree from the University of Minnesota. The Indoor Air Unit conducts research, education, and outreach concerning indoor air quality, especially radon, mold, and carbon monoxide. Unit staff also regulate smoking in public places, air quality in enclosed sports arenas, and radon professional licensure. |
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![]() Where Do We Stand on Tobacco Prevention?
Nov 17, 2020
Jeanne Weigum has served as the President of ANSR since 1980, though her path to leading the organization for nearly four decades has somewhat humble roots. The Association for Nonsmokers’ Rights, as it was called at the time, was in the midst of fighting for the nation’s first statewide clean indoor air law in 1975. Jeanne saw an ad in a local paper about the association’s work and decided to become a member, which only cost $1. After becoming a member, Jeanne soon joined the ANSR board and eventually moved her way up to the full-time President, a role for which she has never taken a salary. From ground-breaking smoke-free housing work to innovative approaches to preventing youth tobacco use, she has provided strategic direction for numerous public policy wins in Minnesota. She remains deeply committed to enhancing public health and her community. When not fighting the good fight at ANSR, you’ll find Jeanne baking in the winter, gardening in the spring and summer, and up to her ankles in rescue dogs year round. David J. Willoughby is the chief executive officer of ClearWay Minnesota, which works to enhance life for all Minnesotans by reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke through research, action, and collaboration. Willoughby also leads the Funder’s Alliance, a group of state foundation executive directors from across the country who work on tobacco control. In 1975, ANSR helped pass the nation’s first comprehensive state clean indoor air legislation. Since then, ANSR has continued to play a leading role in shaping tobacco policy and has been involved in every major state-wide policy, such as the Freedom to Breathe Act in 2007 and raising the tobacco tax in 2013. ANSR helped Minneapolis and Saint Paul restrict the sales of flavored tobacco, including menthol, and also helped Edina become the first Minneapolis city to raise the tobacco sales age to 21. The mission of ClearWay Minnesota is to enhance life in Minnesota by reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke through research, action, and collaboration. They were created in 1998 and entrusted with overseeing 3 percent of the state’s tobacco settlement funds. ClearWay operates under the ongoing jurisdiction of the Ramsey County District Court. They use their portion of the settlement to help Minnesotans quit smoking and tobacco use, and to fund tobacco-related research, programs, and initiatives around the state. ClearWay Minnesota works to raise people’s awareness of the dangers of tobacco and to make Minnesota a healthier place. |
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![]() Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 24, 2020
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![]() Educating During the Pandemic
Dec 01, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Join Zoom Meeting Dr. Rhoda Mhiripiri-Reed has served in public education for over 15 years. Improving the lives of others has been a driving force throughout her life. During her time as a student at Bloomington Kennedy High School, she became intrigued with community service while in the role of a candy striper for the Minnesota Masonic Home for the elderly. While attending Yale University, she became even more involved in the community through tutoring adolescents, volunteering weekly at the local Head Start, and serving meals at the homeless shelter. These experiences helped her realize the impact that quality education can have in young people’s lives, and she decided to make education her lifelong ambition. After graduating from Yale with her teaching license, she returned to Minnesota to begin her career as an educator. She taught social studies at Highland Park Junior High in Saint Paul, and later served as an assistant principal at her alma mater, Bloomington Kennedy High School, and then as a high school principal for five years at Champlin Park in the Anoka-Hennepin District. She was soon after admitted into Harvard University’s new doctoral program in Education Leadership, which resulted in a doctoral residency with District of Columbia Public Schools, building a principal training program. Finally, right before moving back to her home state, Rhoda served as Associate Superintendent in the Monterey Peninsula Unified District for three years. Rhoda is thrilled to lead Hopkins Public Schools from great to world class. She and her team are strengthening E-12 excellence by developing a strategic innovation vision for the future, emboldening an already strong district identity, and transforming learning experiences to cultivate students who will be leaders around the world. Rhoda lives with her husband, Frank, and their two children, Sterling and Sawyer. Although she loves to work, she spends weekend hours exercising, bargain shopping, watching reality TV, and playing with her kids. |
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![]() Constitutional Amendment on Education
Dec 08, 2020
VIRTUAL MEETING Meeting location: Rep. Rena Moran's sense of community came from her large family and a neighborhood where people truly looked out for each other. The home she grew up in was a welcoming place for all the neighborhood kids. A strong family and sense of community are at the very core of who Rena is today. Rena is the mother of seven children. The oldest, LaSheeka, is married with a son and daughter. The youngest, Silver, is a graduate of The University of Mankato in Mankato, MN. As the mother of seven, Rena knows what it is to sacrifice for the greater good of her children. "I moved to the Twin Cities in search of a better life for my kids. Homeless, my children and I stayed in a Minneapolis shelter for several months. It wasn't long before my family and I went from homelessness to homeowners. I found my first job in Minnesota earning minimum wage at Camp Snoopy, then at the YMCA on University Avenue, before moving on to work at a commodities trading firm in downtown Minneapolis for seven years. During this time, I began to get involved in social change work. A defining moment came when the city only paved half of my street, even though the entire street would be assessed for the cost. I started knocking on doors, organized my neighbors, and began meeting with elected and city officials. Soon after, the city paved the rest of my street. An activist was born. After seven years, I left the comforts of my corporate job to become a Wellstone Organizing Fellow and embark on a new vocation of community organizing. I was quickly hired on by Urban Embassy, where I would go on to lead efforts to engage the African-American community during the 2008 election. My political life began as a community organizer in my Saint Paul neighborhood and expanded as I geared up to run for office in 2010; as a person who overcame to become the first African-American to represent Saint Paul in the MN House of Representatives." At the Capitol, Rena represents the St. Paul communities of Rondo, Frogtown, Summit-University, Thomas-Dale, Midway, a portion of the North End, and Cathedral Hill. She currently chairs the House Health and Human Services Policy Committee, working to expand health care coverage, reduce prescription drug prices, eliminate health disparities, and remove barriers to critical safety net programs. She is a founding member and chair of the People of Color and Indigenous (POCI) Caucus and United Black Legislative Caucus. On a national level, Rena serves as Executive Secretary of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators (NBCSL), Midwest Region Coordinator for the National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women (NOBEL), and as the Minnesota State Director for both the Women Legislators’ Lobby (WILL) and the National Foundation for Women Legislators (NFWL). She is a proud mother of seven and grandmother of eight. |