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Marcia Avner, Public Policy Director, Minnesota Council of Non-Profits

Harriet Barlow, Executive Director of the Blue Mountain Center (NY), Board member of Mother Jones and two national think tanks, and an advisor to foundations

Julia Classen, co-owner of Aurora Consulting (on nonprofit management), former chair of the Minnesota Charities Review Council, and board member of the New World Foundation Prof.

Prof. Barbara Crosby, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, an authority on public policy leadership, cross-sectorial collaboration, strategic planning, and the media

Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs, Co-Minister, Unity Church-Unitarian

Prof. Katherine Fennelly, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota; former dean of the University’s Extension Service; and an authority on immigration, public leadership, cross-cultural relations, and public health policy

Joan Growe, former Minnesota Secretary of State, 1975 to 1999, and former state legislator

Keith Hallenland, founder and shareholder at Halleland, Lewis, Nilan, and Johnson, whose firm provides legal services pro bono to the Center

Chris Hanson, CEO of thedatabank, inc., whose firm contributes tremendous services with an online database, list serve, online payment form, and related services to Heartland Democracy

Rachelle Horowitz, Vice Chair, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI); former DNC Executive Committee member; former longtime American Federation of Teachers Political Director; and former associate of the late civil rights leader Bayard Rustin

Mary Pat Lee, Executive Director of the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery, former major gifts director at the Center for Community Change, and longtime development director

Mary McKinley, consultant to public policy groups, based in New York, and formerly of the Aspen Institute and the Open Society Institute

Patrick Marx, Partner, Walker & Associate in Grand Rapids, Minnesota; former executive (marketing, media, and MIT); and former reporter (Star Tribune) and contributing writer (N.Y. Times)

Prof. Emeritus Frank Miller, Former Chair, Anthropology Department and American Indian Studies Department, University of Minnesota

Ted Mondale, Chairman and CEO of NAZCA Solutions, Inc.; former Chairman of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Council and former state senator

Prof. Emeritus Charles Mundale, Former Chair, Political Science Department, Minnesota State University at Mankato; and former editor of Corporate Report

Todd Otis, President of Ready 4 K and former state representative

Prof. Joel Rogers, a founding Board member of Heartland, Director of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS) and the Center for State Innovation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a leading progressive thinker and co-author, most recently, of What Workers Want

James Southwick, former Board Chair, is is Vice President for Global Regulatory Strategy at Medtronic.  An attorney, he was a Deputy Assistant Trade Representative in the Clinton administration

Kathy Tunheim, CEO of Tunheim Partners, a public affairs and public relations firm

Paul Williams, Senior Vice President for National Field Strategies and Development at the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC), a national affordable housing group