Year 3, Issue 35 — August 13, 2024

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Hometown Values & Vision: Marshall

We met with 15 community members in Marshall to discuss challenges, needs, and solutions in this Southwestern Minnesota city.

Said one woman who works with at-risk youth, especially those impacted by sex trafficking, and people impacted by domestic violence: “I’m a lived-experience expert of being a child that was part of the criminal justice system and one who lived in poverty.

"I’m here because our communities are stronger when we all know we exist.”

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A Conversation With Roya Akhavan About Re-Defining Effective Leadership

“What is required is a paradigm shift that elevates the values and behaviors associated with the feminine aspects of humanity — namely, compassion, caring, cooperation, communal orientation, emotional intelligence, and moral courage — in leadership by both men and women to resolve global challenges; a paradigm shift that goes beyond expanding the number of women in leadership positions to effect a complete transformation in how leadership is defined and enacted.”

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August Magazine: Asian American Stories

My Multiple Identities: Embracing All of Me, by Xay Yang

"We have a tendency to box people into simple categories, but we should not be defined by limited labels. I am many things: nonprofit director, artist, organizer, therapist, auntie, sister, Hmong, queer, and survivor."

Hmong Culture

Girl Scouts Camp

"I learned about Hmong symbols and their meanings: the heart, the ram’s horn, the mountain, the snail, the elephant footprint, and the house. I used a few of the Hmong symbols and my own patterns on my Batik cloth."

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local economies and ecosystems

Announcements

A book about Toni Stone hit bookstores last week, using some of the information from our archives. We offer this look back in our Legacy series at a story from February 1988, “From St. Paul playgrounds to big leagues, Stone always loved baseball," written by Diane DuBay.

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Minnesota Women's Press will be recognized nationally in September for its coverage about gender-based violence. This will be our third award on the topic this year.

Minnesota Women's Press was recognized by the Minnesota Newspaper Association for six 2023 awards in photography (including first place for the River Stories cover below), social media campaign, Best Magazine article, and Community Service Leadership for our gender-based violence coverage.

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