• "I was the faculty fellow for the project....and recruited and selected students to participate."
  
• "Teamwork's mission is... to make a healthier community and poverty is their main focus right now."
  
  
• "What I want them to get out of this semester... is that small groups of people can make great things happen."
  
  
• "Its one thing to read about something in a book or to read about something in the newspaper and it's another thing to sit down and share a meal with someone who personally is experiencing those challenges."
  

Video Transcript
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She teaches courses in diversity, family relations, and creativity. Her current research focuses on the processes of personal multicultural development and how best to advance acceptance and appreciation of differences among people.

Career highlights:

• Past executive director of the Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children
• Author of manuscripts detailing the process of students' multicultural development
• Member of the Eliminating Poverty Impact Coalition in Delaware County

Ask Her Questions: Go to her Virtual Roundtable entry.