2009 Dream Maker Award Winners
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Photographer Ann Marsden creates beautiful black and white portraits of our Dream Maker Award Winners.
Tracina Coward - Girl Achievement & Leadership
Growing up with family instability and uncertainty, Tracina Coward directed her energy and established herself as a leader, working with young people facing their own personal challenges. She is committed to helping them find their voices through spoken word, art, music and poetry, and developing them to become leaders through service and activism.
Elizabeth (Liz) Kuoppala - Woman Achievement & Leadership
Liz Kuoppala's childhood on the Iron Range in Northern Minnesota was a stifling struggle. She dealt with child abuse, depression and despair. But motivated and inspired by other people's challenges, she pushed herself to become a respected leader, advocate for those faced with the same barriers she endured.
MayKao Y. Hang - Individual Support & Leadership
MayKao Hang is a champion of equity who consistently and compassionately has the interests of poor, lonely and forgotten children and families. She strives to make cultural, systemic and individual change for Hmong women and girls so they can achieve their highest potential in all their roles.
MN Indian Women's Resource Center - Organization Support & Leadership
The Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center (MIWRC) has emerged as one of the main multi-service centers in the Twin Cities. It is committed to addressing the gender and culturally specific needs and development of American Indian women and their families.
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Ann Bancroft 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.
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