Minneapolis Interview Project

Life stories through a social justice lens

Policing & Criminal Justice

This pages includes posts on policing, (Mel Reeves, Jess Sundin, Jason Sole)  prisons, (Jason Sole, Filiberto Nolasco Gomez, Nelsie Yang) police in schools, the prison industrial complex, MPD150, defunding the police, abolition, mass incarceration, the formerly incarcerated, re-entry programs, ( Marcie Rendon, David Lawrence Grant, Jason Sole) restorative justice, George Floyd, Philando Castile, Jamar Clark, the 4th Precinct occupation, the 3rd precinct burning, the Minneapolis Uprising, Minneapolis riots and alternatives to policing and prisons.

Marcie Rendon

Writes the Indigenous Mystery.

Bruce Nestor

People's Lawyer, Urban Gardener

Roxxanne O’Brien

Northside Environmental Justice Activist Speaks Truth to Power.

Katrina Knutson

Urban Queer Artist Fights Police Brutality & Advances Intersectional Liberation

Alice A. Anderson (1932-2017)

Beautiful Activist of South Minneapolis

Robin Wonsley

The Revolution is My Boyfriend

August Nimtz

History and Contingency in the Making of a Black Communist.

Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole

Makes Sacred Trouble

Cathy Jones

Postal Worker Fights Police Brutality, Discrimination in the Workplace

Tina Burnside

Harvesting the Stories Community Needs

Kenneth Holt 

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

Rose Brewer

From Tulsa to Minneapolis: Activist Scholar is Rooted in Community

Sandy Hernandez

Undocumented Immigrants Are My People.

Drew Edwards

6th Grade Teacher Struggled in School

Minneapolis Uprising

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

Roya Damsaz

From Iranian Revolution to Grassroots Movements in North Minneapolis

Bruce Drewlow

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

Before George Floyd’s Murder: A Testimonial History of Police Brutality and Resistance in Minneapolis (Work in Progress)

Adriana Cerrillo

Elevates Immigrant Voices to Change Racist Policies

Veronica Mendez Moore

CTUL Organizer Builds Labor Power with Marginalized Workers

Ronald Judy

Rich Complexity of the Historic, South Minneapolis Black Community

Elizabeth Tannen

Poet Finds Community in Justice Work.

Brittany Lewis

Action Researcher Leads with Love

Nelsie Yang

Heal Together in Public

Chris Juhn

Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

Jess Sundin

The People are my Mountains.

Guy Terrill Gambill

Veteran, Once Homeless, Fought for Housing Rights.

Filiberto Nolasco Gomez

The Personal is Political

John Samuel Wright

The Struggle for Freedom is Transgenerational

Susana De Leon

Attorney & Dancer without 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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