Farhia Budul embraced her culture, community, and faith to achieve recovery. Her experience led her to develop culturally specific recovery support for her fellow East Africans in Minnesota.
St. Paul, MN — Noel Nix knows from experience that good intentions and ideas are not enough to create lasting change; meaningful action is also necessary. In his positions as a St.
Mobridge, SD — Tasha Peltier (Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Nation) is on a mission to help Indigenous communities reclaim their health and wellness. She wants to start with her homelands, the Standing Rock Nation.
Rapid City, SD — Marie Zephier (Oglala Lakota Nation) is passionate about helping people heal by reconnecting to Indigenous ways. She wants Native people to have access to the healing she has found through culture.
Cloquet, MN — Rebekah Dunlap (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior) is determined to reclaim and revitalize traditional Ojibwe practices related to parent and child health.
Saint Cloud, MN — Kahin Adam is on a mission to decrease barriers to culturally relevant health care and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.
Golden Valley, MN — Dr. Rachel Renee Hardeman comes from people who are deeply committed to Black liberation. She was raised to question everything, seek the truth and use it to create change.
Bemidji, MN — Natalie Nicholson (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation) understands the persistence required to achieve a dream. The former Olympian and world champion curler was also a first-generation college student.
