Go Run is a weekend-long training to inspire, equip, and inform women from all walks of life to lead more effectively in your work, community, and politics. The training will focus on communications, fundraising, organizing and other leadership skills.
Take advantage of this unique opportunity to build your skills and network with women leaders from across Northeastern Minnesota!
This is a national training program that engages local experts, public officials, current and former elected officials, and speakers to help train and share their experience and stories of success.
We make this training affordable for women from all income levels.
The cost is $150 and scholarships are available.
Featured Speakers and Trainers
Marie Wilson is President and Founder of The White House Project, former President of the Ms. Foundation for Women, co-creator of Take Our Daughters to Work, and author of Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World. She was also the first woman elected to the Des Moines City Council. “The White House Project is inspired when women from all walks of life realize that they are part of a larger network of women. When they join the public debate and enter the ranks of leadership in business, politics, and culture; and when they claim their citizenship, their voice, and their role in shaping the future of this country. Get to this training and get ready to be inspired and take your seat at the head of the table!”
Ann Bancroft, a native of Minnesota, is one of the world's preeminent polar explorers and an internationally recognized leader who is dedicated to inspiring women and girls around the world to unleash the power of their dreams. Through her various roles as an explorer, educator, sought-after speaker and philanthropist, Ann believes that by sharing stories related to her dreams of outdoor adventure, she can help inspire a global audience to pursue their individual dreams.
She has been named among Glamour magazine's "Women of the Year" (2001); featured in the book Remarkable Women of the Twentieth Century (1998); inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame (1995); named Ms. magazine's "Woman of the Year" (1987).
Peggy Flanagan is an experienced organizer and advocate currently serving as the Deputy Director of Training for Wellstone Action, National Field Director for Native Vote, and Member of the National Congress of American Indians. She was also elected to the Minneapolis School Board in 2004 and is the first Native American to serve on that body. Peggy’s expertise is bolstered by her first-hand experience running for office!
Winona LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservations, and is the mother of three children. As Program Director of the Honor the Earth Fund, she works on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for frontline native environmental groups. She also works as Founding Director for White Earth Land Recovery Project. In 1994, Winona was nominated by Time magazine as one of America's fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age. She has been awarded the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, the Ann Bancroft Award for Women's Leadership Fellowship, and the Reebok Human Rights Award, with which she began the White Earth Land Recovery Project
Kim Stokes is a former candidate for Lt. Governor in Minnesota and lives on the Iron Range. She got her political start running one of Congressman James Oberstar's district offices right out of college. After working in both the MN and DC offices, she took some time off from politics to work in banking. Kim was awarded the prestigious Bush Fellowship to pursue a Masters in Public Administration at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Kim now heads up the Compliance Department for northern Minnesota's largest community bank and is active in a number of community and school activities. Kim will share wealth of experience knowledge from both the public and private sector.
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