Board of Directors

The Board of Directors members, as of October 2010, include:

FAYISE ABRAHIM
Former Youth Co-Chair
Promise Fellow Alumnus
Amherst College
Worthington

MARY ACKERMAN, CO-CHAIR
Search Institute
Minneapolis

JOANNE BENSON
Alliance Founder and Former Lt. Governor
St. Cloud

SARAH DIXON, CEO
Minnesota Alliance With Youth
St. Paul/Duluth

MARGARET ANN HENNEN
Hennen Communications, LLC
St. Paul

MARK HIEMENZ, VICE CHAIR
Minnesota Community Foundation and The Saint Paul Foundation
St. Paul

RACHELLE JENSON
Former Youth Co-Chair
College of Saint Scholastica
Duluth

ANN JOHNSON
Delta Dental of Minnesota
Eagan

ESTHER LEE, CO-CHAIR
Chaska High School
Chaska

CAMMY LEHR, Ph.D
Minnesota Department of Education
Roseville

CAROL MOLNAU
Former Lt. Governor
St. Paul

JULIE PLAUT, Ph.D
Minnesota Campus Compact
St. Paul

LT. GOVERNOR YVONNE PRETTNER SOLON, HONORARY CO-CHAIR
Office of the Governor
St. Paul

ZACH PRUITT
Northfield Healthy Community Initiative
Northfield