Leadership

Board of Directors
Alecia Engelmeyer
Alecia Engelmeyer is vice president of public affairs at Weber Shandwick, a global strategic communications and consulting firm. With more than 15 years MORE

Board of Directors
Keith Franke
Keith Franke is a small business owner, nonprofit leader, and the current Mayor of St. Paul Park.​ He is the owner of the Park Cafe and Franke's MORE

Board of Directors
Jim Hoolihan
Jim Hoolihan is the CEO of Can-Jer Industrial Lubricant Company. He also served until 2017 as the CEO of Industrial Lubricant Company MORE

Board of Directors
Mark Jenkins
Mark is a trailblazing technology advocate. He was actively promoting smartcards, smartphones, and cloud based contact centers when these MORE

Board of Directors - Secretary
Susan Kent
Susan Kent is an experienced leader, dedicated advocate, former small business owner and a concerned community member. She has MORE

Board of Directors
Mary Maus Kosir
Mary Maus Kosir is a driven and passionate professional with over 30 years of experience in non-profit and higher education administration. MORE

Board of Directors - Vice Chair
Sandy Layman
Sandy Layman has 35 years of experience advocating for communities from a Greater Minnesota perspective. As a member of the Minnesota MORE

Board of Directors - Chair
Aaron Pearson
Aaron Pearson is a marketing and communications consultant with Pearson Consulting LLC. Aaron specializes in helping B2B companies tell MORE

Board of Directors
Isaac Russell
Isaac Russell is a St. Paul resident who has spent over a decade in public policy. He spent nine years in the Minnesota State Senate as a legislative MORE

Board of Directors
Bradley Schaeppi
Bradley Schaeppi, a real estate attorney and self-described "moderate," has lived a full, civically involved life: a Minneapolis neighborhood MORE

Board of Directors
Jim Schimelpfenig
Jim Schimelpfenig is an experienced educator and has been teaching in Minnesota public schools for over 30 years. Jim started his career in MORE

Board of Directors
Steve Wise
Since 1979, Steve Wise worked in the “family” business, Cass Precision Machining. While there he drove truck and was a machinist while MORE

Board of Directors
Ed Zabinski
Ed helps organizations plan for growth, manage their people, and more effectively communicate
with their key stakeholders. He has done MORE

Board of Directors
Cami Zimmer
Cami Zimmer is the Chief Business Officer at Glympse, the pioneer of real-time location-sharing technology. For over 5 years, she has led the MORE

Founder & Executive Director
Shannon Watson
Shannon Watson is the Founder and Executive Director of Majority in the Middle.​ She has worked in policy and public affairs roles for the MORE