is a writer, educator, and advocate for the healing power of the arts. Her memoir, Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify won the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Memoir & Creative Nonfiction. She is co-editor with David Mura of the anthology We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World. She teaches at Hamline University and The Loft Literary Center and is a mother of five, grandmother of eight, and great-grandmother of two.