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.

Susana De Leon

Attorney & Dancer without Borders.

Kendrick Wronski

Woman Behind the Painted Signs

David Lawrence Grant

Writing Things That Matter

Phillipe Cunningham

Reimagining Public Safety in Minneapolis

Mel Reeves (1957-2022)

Fights the Power

Jason Sole at Hamline University, January 23, 2020

Jason Sole

Makes Sacred Trouble

Robin Wonsley

The Revolution is My Boyfriend

John Samuel Wright

The Struggle for Freedom is Transgenerational

Cathy Jones

Postal Worker Fights Police Brutality, Discrimination in the Workplace

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

Jane Burnett

St. Louis Park Girl Radicalized in 1970s Chicago

Chris Juhn

Social Movement Photographer and ABLE Press Founder

David Tilsen

Minneapolis Activist Continues Generations of Progressive Leadership

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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