founded by Minnesota Women's Press, a media pioneer since 1985
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Changemakers Alliance:
Stories, Solutions & Solidarity
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Bringing people into conversation to make stories come alive |
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We are excited to have launched the Changemakers Alliance this week with two get-acquainted sessions. We hope you can join us in the coming months.
What Is Next?
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February: There will be two more get-acquainted sessions.
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March: We create branches of our tree based on shared passions and concerns. What do we want to learn? Who do we want to talk with in group discussions? What solutions can we share on womenspress.com? What action steps can we build for CALL members to participate in?
First Branch: Trauma
March 9 and 12: Story Sessions
What should we know about
stigma and addiction?
March 23: Featured Guests
Building Awareness About Sex
Trafficking: Readings & Panel, with Chris Stark, Babette Sandman, Quintina Sonnie, 7pm
Find updated details at
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Changemakers Alliance Team (So Far)
Where Are We?
Apple Valley, Aurora, Babbitt, Blaine, Burnsville, Centerville, Crookston, Eagle Bend, East Bethel, Edina, Faribault, Hinckley, Lake Vermilion, Little Falls, Mankato, Maplewood, Minneapolis, Ortonville, Richfield, Roseville, Saint Charles, Saint Paul, Savage, Shakopee, Staples, Wayzata
What We Care About
• Creating Equitable
Systems, 35
• Healing Trauma, 29
• Restoring Ecosystems, 27
• Statewide
Bridge-Building, 24
• Transforming Justice, 10
Also: mental health, resilience to climate change, gun violence,
food sovereignty, Fair Trade sales, voting rights, power of art to make change, gender-based violence,
and political leadership.
Next in Recruitment
We will ask more of our BIPOC network to join the team, especially those interested in Transforming Justice. We will connect with our influencers in Greater Minnesota to increase our numbers outside the Twin Cities.
Thanks to Community Donors we have several free memberships to offer to under-represented communities. Let us know who would like to be added by replying to this email.
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You do not need to be a trained reporter, writer, advocate, or policy-maker. All are welcome to talk, listen, and solve together.
Try one session, come every month, or join when the topic is of interest
to you. All you need to do is be a member.
There are four levels of participation, each with additional benefits:
Basic Membership, Free
Attend public conversations on second Saturday or second Wednesday
Receive newsletter with solutions stories, conversation clips, action steps
Invitations to special group conversations with advocates and solution-makers
Unlock supporting membership for up to 25 people — your choice, or we can invite underrepresented people around the state.
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Thanks to 39 members and donors, we have a starting fund to hire a Collaboration Editor to connect and recruit members statewide, including coordination support with future CALL project teams.
We are looking for someone ideally living in Greater Minnesota to help us with recruitment outside the Twin Cities. Someone organized, reliable, able to communicate well with many different people, ideally with authentic connections to BIPOC communities.
This will start as an hourly position of about 20 hours/month in February, and expand as funds and teams grow.
Please ask anyone who is interested to contact me at mikki@womenspress.com.
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Our first underwriter Tanya Korpi — the only woman Valvoline franchise owner, with hubs in northern Minnesota — gave us funding to begin the process for this work.
She will be supporting our "Women in Politics" initiative to come, particularly focused on Greater Minnesota engagement.
If you have other suggestions for deep investment, contact mikki@womenspress.com
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Stories & Action: Housing |
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Action Step suggested by CALL cohort Lindalee Soderstrom:
To join in advocacy efforts, attend the
Homes for All Coalition legislative launch online
February 2, 2022
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Together we put the power of our unique
stories into action
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Minnesota Women's Press has connected me
with dynamic, inspiring women whom I would not have otherwise met. How can we come to understand one
another and cooperate if we don't get a chance to meet?
The challenges we face in this state are big — but so are the ingenuity, heart, and open arms that the MWP reveals in us.
— Ranae Hanson, author, “Watershed”
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