Minneapolis Interview Project

Life stories through a social justice lens

Healing & Spirituality

Healing and Spirituality includes posts concerned about organized religions and all other forms  of spirituality. It also focuses on healers, and the trauma, PTSD and mental illness they are concerned about. Here you will also find posts that consider historical trauma, social trauma.

Mustafa Diriye

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

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Anna K. Binkovitz

Poet and MeToo Advocate, on the Politics of Consent.

Effie Lee

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

April Knutson

Former Leader of MN CP Continues to Build United Fronts

Lisa Albrecht

Lesbian Feminist Educator Still Learning, To Repair the World

Brittany Lewis

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

Hye-Kyong Kim

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

Philli Irvin (Steven Johnson)

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

Roya Taylor

Indigenous Radio Host and Actor Begins Her Third Act

Ricardo Levins Morales

Puerto Rican Social Justice Artist Organizes to Win

Louis Alemayehu

The Making of A Multicultural Spiritual Elder.

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez

Chicano Reporter from LA, Centers Marginalized Workers

Susana De Leon

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

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Long-Time Organizer Against Police Brutality, Fights the Power

Irna Landrum

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

Kenneth Holt 

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

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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