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Schedule and Guest Presenters

The content and schedule of meetings for the first cohort of Collegeville Institute Fellows (2013-2015) was as follows:

Fellows Meeting

Inaugural meeting

August 26 (noon) – 27 (noon), 2013
at the Collegeville Institute

Guest presenters:

  • Abbot John Klassen, St. John’s Abbey
  • Tim Marx, CEO, Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and former Minnesota housing commissioner, St. Paul city attorney, deputy mayor, and lawyer in private practice

The Changing Face of Minnesota and Its Implications for the Future

October 14 (8:30am) – 15 (4pm), 2013
at the Minnesota Humanities Center

Guest presenters:

  • Susan Brower, Minnesota State Demographer
  • Juan Linares, Senior Fellow, The Center for Policy Planning and Performance
  • Thomas Stinson, Minnesota State Economist (retired)

Business and the Future of Minnesota’s Economy

January 6 (8:30am) – 7 (4pm), 2014
at the Minnesota Humanities Center

Guest presenters:

  • Matt Kramer, President, St. Paul Chamber of Commerce
  • Toby Madden, Regional Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
  • Robert L. Ryan, CFO of Medtronic (retired), and director of Citibank, General Mills, and Stanley Black & Decker
  • Stephen H. Mahle, President of Medtronic’s Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management Business (retired) and Director of EBR Systems and Sphere Medical, Cambridge, UK
  • Susan Sands, President of S & B Properties and member of the Women Business Owners Hall of Fame

Education and the Achievement Gap in Minnesota

April 28 (8:30am) – 29 (4pm), 2014
at the Minnesota Humanities Center

Guest presenters:

  • Mary Cecconi, Executive Director of Parents United for Public Schools
  • Pam Costain, President and CEO of Achieve Mpls
  • Bernadeia Johnson, Superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools

Criminal Justice in Minnesota

July 28 (8:30 am) – 29 (4pm), 2014
at the Minnesota Humanities Center

Guest presenters:

  • Timothy J. Dolan, Minneapolis Chief of Police (retired)
  • Hillary Freeman, internationally-recognized expert on ex-offender re-entry programs by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and the U.S. Department of Justice
  • Denise Reilly, Judge on the Minnesota Court of Appeals and Member, Minnesota Supreme Court Judicial Education Committee

The Challenges of Health Care in Minnesota

October 6 (8:30am) – 7 (4pm), 2014
at the Minnesota Humanities Center

Guest presenters:

  • Mary Brainerd, President and CEO of Minnesota-based HealthPartners, the largest consumer-governed, nonprofit health care organization in the nation
  • Kathleen (Katia) M. McDonough, MS, RN, WHCNP, nurse practitioner with Hennepin County Red Door Clinic Services focusing on sexually transmitted diseases and HIV, and affiliate faculty for clinical education, University of Minnesota School of Nursing
  • Gregory Plotnikoff, MD, MTS, FACP, who is a board-certified internist and pediatrician who has received national and international honors for his work in cross-cultural and integrative medicine.

Poverty in Minnesota

February 23 (8:30am) – 24 (4pm), 2015
at the Minnesota Humanities Center

Guest presenters:

  • Sean Kershaw, Executive Director, Citizens League, and
  • Chanda Smith Baker, President, Pillsbury United Communities, on “Pathways to Prosperity”
  • Barbara Gray Koch, Philanthropist, on Philanthropy as Public Theology
  • Mike Manhard, Director Metro-wide Engagement on Shelter & Housing

Capstone Meeting

May 4 (lunch) – 6 (lunch), 2015
at the Collegeville Institute

Guest presenter:

  • Heidi Neumark, Pastor, Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan

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