Minneapolis Interview Project

Life stories through a social justice lens

George Floyd

Tina Burnside

Civil Civil Rights Attorney & Museum Curator Harvests the Stories Community Needs

John Samuel Wright

4th Generation Minnesotan Recalls 150 years of Resistance to Jim Crow North

Acoma Gaither

Public Historian Archives George Floyd Memorial, and History of Minneapolis Mutual Aid

Phillipe Cunningham

Minneapolis City Council Member Draws on Experiences of Marginalization as a Black Trans Man to Reimagine Public Safety

Katrina Knutson

Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Chris Juhn

Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Brittany Lewis

Action Researcher Harvests Community Wisdom to Affect Public Policy and Heal Herself

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

Barb Tilsen

Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer

Kenneth Holt 

For This Educator Black Lives Matter Is Not a Movement; It’s His Life

Minneapolis Uprising

Testimony and Timeline, May 25th -July 9, 2020

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

April Knutson

Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

August Nimtz

From Jim Crow New Orleans to Professor in Mpls: The Making of a Black Communist

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power

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.

©2016-2023 Anne Winkler-Morey. All Rights Reserved.

Privacy Preference Center

Privacy Preferences