Robin Wonsley


Radical Transformation of an Organizer from Chicago's Southside
Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole


Formerly Incarcerated Professor Makes Sacred Trouble

Irna Landrum


Black Queer Lefty From New Orleans Reclaims Nature, God and Politics

Sherry Quan Lee


Black/ Asian Writer Grapples with Identity, Dares to Nurture Untold Stories

Alfreda Daniels


Liberian American Organizes Across Communities and Continents

David Lawrence Grant


Boyhood at Howard University, with Stars like Toni Morrison, Learned to Write Things That Matter

Rose Brewer


From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Roxxanne O’Brien


Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Angela Conley


Hennepin County Commissioner Learned to Solve "Unsolvable Problems" by Listening to Survivors

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)


Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power

Louis Alemayehu


The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Valérie Déus


Haitian American Poet Misses New York, Builds Artist's Life in South Minneapolis

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)


Born On the MN/Canadian Border. Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Cathy Jones


Postal Worker Fights Police Brutality, Discrimination in the Workplace

Drew Edwards


6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School. He Pushes and Turns the Stone in North Minneapolis

Effie Lee


Born in Mississippi in 1937, Recruited by Tuskegee to Work Minneapolis Food Service

Mustafa Diriye


Somali Immigrant Found What Makes Home: Colleges, Coffee Shops and a Mosque

Julius Lee (1931-2022)


Tuskegee Graduate Migrated from Alabama to Escape Jim Crow

Minneapolis Interview Project
Life Stories that reveal inequities and struggles for social justice in Minneapolis

Anne Winkler-Morey

Anne Winkler-Morey is a writer, historian, educator, activist and bicyclist based in Minneapolis. She is a scholar of social movements, nationalism and inequality in the US and Latin America. She began writing the Minneapolis Interview Project in May, 2016, completing it in November 2023. Her book, Allegiance to Winds and Waters: Bicycling the Political Divides of the United States , was published April, 2022. In November 2023 she began a two-year world tour. Read her blog at: annewinklermorey.com

Eric Mueller

Eric Mueller is a Minneapolis-based artist, photographer, and teacher. He began photographing portraits for the Minneapolis Interview Project in early 2019. His photo book, Family Resemblance, was published by Daylight Books in 2020. His year-long, photo-a-day project "Reset 2021" was exhibited at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona in 2022.

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