David Tilsen


Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Barb Tilsen


Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer

April Knutson


Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

Lisa Albrecht


Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Elizabeth Tannen


NYC Poet Finds Community in Minneapolis Police Abolition Movement.

Bruce Nestor


From Immigrant Meat Packers to RNC and Standing Rock: The People's Lawyer

Judy Cooper Lyle


From North Dakota Farmer's Union to Urban Spectrum Theatre -- Committed to Community.

Michael McConnell


Married His Husband in 1971, Demands Equality for All.

Jess Sundin


Police Justice and Anti-War Activist: The People Are My Mountains

Tom O’Connell


Our Minneapolis Revolution: 1930s, 1970s, & Today.

Jane Burnett


St. Louis Park Girl Radicalized in 70s Chicago, Organizes at Ford Plant, St. Olaf Alumni

Elizabeth Faue


Feminist Labor Historian Returns to North Minneapolis Roots

Jerry Rau


Vietnam Veteran Against War becomes Sidewalk Troubadour

Bruce Drewlow


Northern Minnesota to North Minneapolis; the Education of an Educator.

Kendrick Wronski


Woman Behind the Painted Signs that Teach Anti-Racism

Anna K. Binkovitz


Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.

Raymond Dehn


Youthful Addiction & Incarceration Shape Perspective on Legislating

Wyn Massey


Minneapolis Labor Activist Recalls 40 Years of Resistance

Guy Terrill Gambill


Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Tammy Ortegon


Artist Exposes Minneapolis’ Economic Borders

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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