Featured speakers
GUEST MODERATOR
Angela Davis, MPR News
Angela Davis is the host of MPR News with Angela Davis, a weekday talk show that airs at 9 a.m. She has more than 30 years of television reporting and anchoring in the Twin Cities and other cities throughout the country.
Davis will lead a conversation with students as well as school and community leaders driving education change.
SPECIAL READING FROM
Jessie Taken Alive-Rencountre, author
Jessie Taken Alive-Rencountre is a Hunkpapa Lakota from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She has worked as a school counselor serving hundreds of students for 15 years. She was named the Great Plains Emerging Tribal Writer’s Award winner for her first children’s book Pet’a Shows Misun the Light.
Utilizing Lakota culture teachings and a school counselor lens, she has published five children’s books. Her passion is to help people remember their importance in life and to utilize their unique talents, to create better communities for future generations to come.
MUSICAL PERFORMANCES BY
Somali Museum Dance Troupe & Known MPLS
Both of these talented groups are all-youth and led by current educators.
STUDENTS HOSTS
Scholars from Patrick Henry High School
A group of wonderful Minneapolis high school students is helping craft this event experience. They will emcee the event on the day.