Barb Tilsen


Singer, Songwriter, Poet, Mother, Grandmother, Organizer

Katrina Knutson


Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Marcie Rendon


Fought Criminal Injustice with American Indian Movement, became Indigenous Mystery Writer

Susana De Leon


From Torreón to Minneapolis: Immigration Attorney and Kalpulli Ketzal Coatlicue Dancer

Brenna Dep


Youth Worker Learns Liberating Power of a Poem

Ahmed Anzaldua


Choral Director of BorderCrossSINGS Revolutionizes Classical and Folk Music

Judy Cooper Lyle


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

Chris Juhn


Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Sherry Quan Lee


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

John Samuel Wright


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

Tammy Ortegon


Artist Exposes Minneapolis’ Economic Borders

Ricardo Levins Morales


Puerto Rican Social Justice Artist Organizes to Win

Roxxanne O’Brien


Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Kendrick Wronski


Woman Behind the Painted Signs that Teach Anti-Racism

Acoma Gaither


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

R. Vincent Moniz Jr.


Indigenous Poet on Growing Up "Urban Indian" in Phillips Neighborhood.

David Lawrence Grant


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

August Nimtz


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

Hye-Kyong Kim


Korean Adoptee's Asian Identity Journey, Leads to Career as Trauma Healer

Ruth Voights


Collaborating to Center Native American Women

Angela Hooks


Beauty Queen Advocates Black On Black Development & Solidarity with Incarcerated People

Artika Tyner


Law Professor, Community Justice Advocate, and Children's Author/Publisher with a Pan-African Lens

Patrick Scully


Patrick's Cabaret Founder Lives Authentic Artist Life While Elevating Minneapolis Art Scene

Elizabeth Faue


Feminist Labor Historian Returns to North Minneapolis Roots

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez


Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Roy Guzmán


Celebrated Queer Honduran Poet Puts Down Roots in Minneapolis

Roya Taylor


Indigenous Radio Host and Actor Begins Her Third Act

Gilberto Vázquez Valle (1958-2021)


Radio Host Built Solidarity Through Encuentro with Latin American Folk Music

Elizabeth Tannen


NYC Poet Finds Community in Minneapolis Police Abolition Movement.

Philli Irvin (Steven Johnson)


How He Got to Now: The Creative Influences of a North Minneapolis Community Artist

Louis Alemayehu


The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Teresa Ortiz


Mexico Ctiy Student Activist 1968, Becomes Latinx Advocate on Lake Street

Irna Landrum


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

Jerry Rau


Vietnam Veteran Against War becomes Sidewalk Troubadour

Tina Burnside


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

Lisa Albrecht


Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Anna K. Binkovitz


Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.
Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole


Formerly Incarcerated Professor Makes Sacred Trouble

Valérie Déus


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

April Knutson


Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

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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