Board of Directors

Andrea M. Satter, Board President 

Chair of HR Committee
Director of Development
Big Brothers Big Sisters Twin Cities

 

Anh-Thu Pham, Board Treasurer

Chair of Finance Committee 

Managing Director
Theater Mu

 

Michelle Filkins, Board Secretary 

Collections Advisory
Professor and Reference and Instruction Librarian, Metro State University

 

Becca Seidel, Member of the Board

Finance Committee
Loan and Grant Portfolio Director
Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota

 

Isuru Herath, Member of the Board

Development Committee

 

Jennings Mergenthal, Member of the Board

Chair of Recruitment and Governance Committee
Community Engagement Specialist, Science Museum of Minnesota
Research and Puppeteer

Jesse Phenow, Member of the Board

Co-Chair of Program Committee
Passionate Peacemaker
Co Director of The Urban Village

 

Kate Driscoll Derickson, Member of the Board

Strategic Planning
Associate Professor of Geography
University of Minnesota

 

Lisa Janette, Member of the Board

Collections 

Head of Archival Processing, Archives and Special Collections, University of Minnesota 

 

Meixi Ng, Member of the Board

HR Committee

Assistant Professor, Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota

 

Dr. Najaha A. Musse, DO, Member of the Board

Development Committee
Resident Physician in Family Medicine & Community Health

 

Sangay Taythi, Member of the Board

Finance Committee
President, Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) of Minnesota
Organizer, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa
Board Member, AFL-CIO Minnesota
Co-establisher, Tibetans for Black Lives

 

Sarah Degner Riveros, Member of the Board 

Development Committee
Lecturer, Languages & Cross-Cultural Studies
Augsburg University

 

Selena Moon, Member of the Board
Co-Chair of Program Committee

Independent scholar in Japanese American Mixed Race and Disability History
Masters of Arts in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bachelors of Arts in History, Smith College

 

Wilt Hodges, Member of the Board

Recruitment and Governance Committee
Author/Advocate
State of Minnesota Public Servant/Columbia University Alum

 

ESFL Co-Founder and Board Member Emeritus

Peter Rachleff
Historian/Teacher; Emeritus Professor of History, Macalester College
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Beth Cleary
Writer; Professor Emerita, Macalester College Theatre
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley