Jamal Adam has a unique understanding of the vital role community colleges can play in helping refugees, immigrants and first-generation students achieve success. Jamal grew up in Somalia and fled at age 13 to a refugee camp in Kenya to escape war
When she isn't developing, improving and disseminating world-class neurosurgical techniques for Medtronic's Deep Brain Stimulation Therapy, Sylvia Bartley is thinking of ways to address the disparities in educational success between African-American
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - Marc is the director for the Office of Planning and Economic Development for the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Over his career, he has been involved in the areas of employment, training, contracting and
Since 2000, Jacquie Berglund has had one thing on her mind: Turning beer into food. That's the mission of FINNEGANS, the social enterprise she founded nearly 15 years ago and the first beer in the world to donate 100 percent of its profits back to
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - CeCe has worked in the research field since 1997, most of those years with the University of Colorado Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health. She has co-authored the ordinance establishing
When Tawanna Black thinks about the future of North Minneapolis, where she is director of the Northside Funder Groups, she sees possibility in the collective impact that African American leaders in the 1930s and ‘40s used to create stable communities
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - Christina works as a family support specialist for the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe’s Indian Child Welfare Department. Prior to that, she worked in the Band’s planning department, focusing on a variety of
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - Melissa grew up on the Mille Lacs Reservation in central Minnesota. In college, she developed a passion for learning and teaching the Ojibwe language. She participated in an Ojibwe language master
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - Raised in Bemidji, Minnesota, Nicole belongs to the Leech Lake Pillager Band of Ojibwe. She is a community organizer but, most important to her, a wife and a mother. A great deal of Nicole’s work is on
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - Originally from California, Lisa moved to Mandaree, North Dakota, on the Fort Berthold Reservation where she was heavily influenced by Hidatsa cultural studies. Lisa is in her final year at the
Native Nations Rebuilders Program (cohort 6) - With more than 20 years in American Indian education as a teacher and administrator, Robert Cook is senior managing director of Teach For America’s Native Alliance Initiative, which builds partnerships
Imagine a candidate forum at the peak of a tough mayoral campaign in a major metro area where not two, not three, but as many as six candidates thought they had a chance at victory. Do you imagine the forum concluding with the candidates' ideas being
