Environmental biologist and biodiversity specialist focusing on sustainability issues, Jenna is a lecturer at the Columbia University Climate School, and on the faculty of the Department of Environmental Science at Barnard College, and at the American Museum of Natural History.

A founder of Global Volunteers (for which he served as treasurer and representative at the United Nations), Todd is a journalist, educator and entrepreneur with deep connections in Russia. He has also been a member of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Council, the Regional Transit Board and the Minnesota Experimental City Authority. 

Somali-born playwright/musician and high school charter school educator.  Author of books including “Somalis In Minnesota,” and articles on mental health.  Holds a Master of Public Affairs degree from Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.

Folk instrumentalist (specializing in string instruments including fiddle/violin and mandolin), singer and music producer.  A founding member of the Daisy Dillman Band

Global sales trainer and strategist for several years with 3M and currently at Andersen Corporation. Originally from Ankara Turkey.

Lecturer on Theater Management at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University.  She was, until recently, the director of learning and community organizing at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, and, for years, the community engagement manager at the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.

Based in Ft. Lauderdale, Jim is a banking and international investment executive with a passion for sustainable, grass-roots development.  He started the privately held Ghana Home Loans Ltd (with Ghanaian partners) to finance middle-class home development, and was for years a director of the GSE-listed CAL Bank in Ghana. Ecohomes Liberia, which he founded, is a one-of-a-kind green-rated cooperative home development outside the Liberian capital of Monrovia.

Michael Katz is a founding board member and former president of Full Circle Theater Company.  He is a construction attorney in private practice in Minneapolis specializing in representing architects, engineers, contractors and owners.

A veteran marketer and content creator for arts organizations in New York, Europe and West Africa, Beck arrived in the Twin Cities in 2018.  He currently handles media relations and tour promotion for the Indigenous-feminist theater company Spiderwoman (based in New York), and marketing for the NY Irish Center. From 2018 to 2022 Beck was the marketing director of the Twin Cities music venue, Crooners Supper Club.  In addition to the Cultural Fluency Initiative, which he founded in November 2022, he serves the Celtic Junction Arts Center in St. Paul as a marketing and programming advisor.