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Dear KFAI Community,

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of Suzann Eisenberg Murray as KFAI’s new Interim Executive Director.

Suzann is a founding partner of the Dendros Group, a dynamic St. Paul-based consulting firm. She has extensive experience providing capacity building, executive transition management, strategic planning and leadership to nonprofit, government and public/private sector collaborations. Suzann has 20 years of experience serving a wide variety of nonprofit organizations as an executive director, senior program director, trainer and board member. Prior to entering the non-profit field, she spent 17 years in the private sector serving as a corporate trainer, executive level manager and business owner of a full service public relations and communications firm.

Acclaimed writer Nurrudin Farah is finishing a three year stint at the University of Minnesota with a staged reading of his play, “A Stone Thrown At The Guilty” at Rarig Center at 7:30 pm this coming Friday and Saturday night. In addition to winning many literary awards, Farah is a regular contributor to the New Yorker and the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. He was featured on KFAI’s Morning Blend and Minneculture in conversation with Zuhur Ahmed, the former host of the KFAI program “Somali Community Link”.

The National Domestic Workers Alliance issued a report this week called “Home Economics, The Invisible and Unregulated World of Domestic Work.”   One of the co-authors is Linda Burnham.  She’s the research director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and she talked with Paul Brohaugh on KFAI's Morning Blend.     Paul asked if there was anything in the report that its authors found surprising.  

Generation Next is a concerted effort to narrow the achievement gap between white students and children of color and lower income households in our schools.

The effort represents a partnership that brings together leaders from public, non-profit and private stakeholders like the Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, the University of Minnesota, Target, 3M, and the United Way.

Michael Goar is executive director of Generation Next.  He visited KFAI to talk with Dale Connelly and Paul Brohaugh on The Morning Blend.