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Profiles of People

Teaching Trauma Awareness

Heather Simonich (BF’12) is giving teachers tools to identify and respond to child traumatic stress

by Marisa Jackels

Lori Greene

Greene (BF’94, ’10) focused on creating public art for healing and storytelling

Lee Pao Xiong

Xiong (BF’99) pursued higher education to bring back the "public" in public service

Seitu Jones

Jones (BF’92, ’04) furthered his studies and developed interdisciplinary art and environmental works

Duchess Harris

Harris (BF’09), then a tenured associate professor at Macalester College, pursued legal studies and earned her law degree

Tawanna Black

Black (BF’14) paused to reflect and invest in radical self-care while taking part in a transformational leadership program

Who is Tony Heredia?

Get to know Bush Foundation board chair Tony Heredia

Board Member Q&A

Think Bigger. Think Differently.

Dr. Tami Jollie-Trottier (BF’16) has developed a multi-generational art space

by Maya Beck

What Would Love Do?

Amelia Franck Meyer (BF’15) is transforming the child welfare system by healing trauma and putting families first

by Mo Perry
Photography by David Ellis

Megan Laudenschlager

Through the Bush Fellowship, Megan Laudenschlager (BF‘14) was inspired to foster rural communities throughout the whole state of North Dakota

Carlos Mariani Rosa

When Mariani Rosa (BF'13) applied for a Bush Fellowship, he was in the middle of his career as a Minnesota state representative and as the executive director of a nonprofit

Mauricio Arango

To artist Arango (BF'08) the Bush Fellowship meant time to explore new techniques, to travel, to
research, to find new means of expression

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