Continuing Leadership Series

Through a media partnership with the Bush Foundation, MinnPost is producing a yearlong series about leaders who pursued solutions to tough public problems by harnessing the energy of conflict.

• NEW! Pulling STEM out of compartments and into students' everyday lives (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN February 3, 2012)
• Ground-breaking support system creates a win-win for medically-trained immigrants, Minnesota (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN January 27, 2012)
• Mike Christenson: From Phillips to North Side, he knows how to engage a community (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN December 11, 2011)
• Nathan Johnson helped Pine City accept gays (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN November 27, 2011)
• Lyndel King's "amazing vision," passion , were keys to audacious Weisman's completion (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN November 14, 2011)
• Building coalitions, fixing systems: Janet Lewis Muth's fingerprints are all over Rice County initiatives (MinnPost, Northfield, MN October 11, 2011)
• Said Sheik-Abdi, with ARC, engages Minneapolis' Somalis in helping Somalia's internal refugees (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN September 5, 2011)
• From ethnic turmoil to vibrant diversity, trio helped Pelican Rapids transform its culture (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN, August 17, 2011)
• Admission Possible: Closing a disturbing divide in Minnesota's educational landscape (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN, July 17, 2011)
• Seeing its model was unsustainable, Beltrami County focused on results—and got them (MinnPost, Saint Paul, MN, June 28, 2011)

The Foundation supports this series through a grant to MinnPost.com.