1998 Dream Maker Award Winners
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Photographer Ann Marsden creates beautiful black and white portraits of our Dream Maker Award Winners.
Thien Luu - Girl Achievement & Leadership
Only five years ago, at the age of 12, Thien Luu arrived from her native Vietnam in the middle of a Minnesota winter. Her new challenges, seemingly insurmountable to others, included new surroundings, people, weather and a complicated language. But even at such a young age, Thien established high priorities and goals for herself, and set out to follow her dream to enter the field of medicine and become a family practitioner.
Salimah Majeed - Woman Achievement & Leadership
As an individual and as the director of a culturally specific human services non-profit agency, Salimah Majeed believes in what Shirley Chisholm once said: "Service to others is the rent we pay for our space on earth." Salimah Majeed exemplifies community service through her personal commitment and leadership.
Judith Niemi - Individual Support & Leadership
Judith Niemi is the director and founder of Women in the Wilderness, a 12-year-old organization devoted to strengthening the bond between women and the outdoors. She also founded Woodswomen, a predecessor organization which began in 1977 and continues today. Through her work as a wilderness guide and instructor, Niemi has directly impacted thousands of women of all ages; and the impact of these women on others creates a ripple effect. She has been instrumental in developing a nationwide community of women who love the wilderness and who help others to discover the same love.
Upper Midwest Women's History Center - Organization Support & Leadership
For 18 years, the Upper Midwest Women's History Center has provided research and curriculum in women's history to teachers and young people, particularly girls. The founders of the Women's History Center feel that without a sense of their past, women cannot take encouragement from those women leaders, scholars and activists who went before them. Consequently, each time they act to pursue their dreams, they act only as individuals with no collective force behind them.
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