Speakers

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.

VIRTUAL 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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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-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.

VIRTUAL 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.