Local Women Impress

I feel like I've been interviewing and writing about a lot of women lately.

Last week I interviewed a young woman named Kat Cummin who is a senior at Notre Dame University.

She designed these funky, cube-shaped spice jars for college credit and ended up earning second place in a housewares design competition.

My article about her can be read here:

Providence Grad Spices Things Up

I also got to interview the newest director of the massive Hennepin County Library System, which is the county the city of Minneapolis and its heavily populated western suburbs are in.

Her name is Lois Thompson and despite the fact that she had just accepted a huge job promotion, she was funny and open and engaging to talk with.

My article about her can be read here:

Hennepin County Picks Homegrown Talent To Lead Libraries

A while back I visited the Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis. It's a huge space where small business owners, many of them immigrants, have leased booth space and are operating in a big, indoor, open-air sort of market.

I was there to interview women business owners. My story about them came out this month, too. It can be read here:

Mercado Mentality

Another local woman I recently met and wrote about was Nancy Donahue. She founded a nonprofit called Birthday Buddies.

It's like Toys for Tots, but for birthdays. She collects donated toys and gives them to needy kids to help them celebrate their birthdays.

A portion of that story can be seen here:

Birthday Bashes