Acknowledgements
We would like to express our sincere appreciation for the invaluable knowledge and extensive support provided to MN Transform by the Institute for Advanced Study over the past three years. The contributions and assistance from the IAS staff have been instrumental in making our endeavors possible. Thank you to the individuals whose steadfastness, creativity, and commitment have been crucial: Susannah Smith, Juliet Burba, Skyler Dorr, Abby Travis, Carolina Maranon-Cobos, Jennifer Gunn, and Bianet Castellanos.
This project took enormous commitment from many UMN staff, past and present. We particularly want to thank LuGail Hamel, Lori Young-Williams, and Wesley Ballinger.
Thank you to the Mellon Foundation for the vision of universities as sites of racial justice. Their support and flexibility have been crucial to our work over the past few years, and inspirational as we face the future.
All of our interns, graduate students, and community fellows.
And our remarkable community and University partners:
MNT staff and leaders:
- Sebastian Alfonzo
- Dr. Joseph Bauerkemper
- Jasmine Baxter
- Dr. Angela Carter
- Dr. David Chang
- Dr. Jigna Desai
- Dr. Tracey Deutsch
- Dr. Michelle Garvey
- Dr. Sophie Hunt
- Dr. Tadd Johnson
- Erica Lee
- Andrea Manolov
- Dr. Kevin Murphy
- Denise Pike
- Kristen Reynolds
- Dr. Kari Smalkoski
- Dr. Ricardo Velasco Trujillo
