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