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Growing Up Healthy Advisory Board

Sharif Abdullah, Executive Director of Somali Community Resettlement Services

Kanko Akakpovi, SNAP-Ed Educator, University of Minnesota Extension – Health and Nutrition Programs

Erin Bailey, Director of Community Services, Northfield Public Schools

Jim Blaha, Executive Director of Community Action Center (CAC) of Northfield

Elizabeth Child, Executive Director of Northfield Area United Way

Sara Coulter, Clinic and Community Supervisor at Rice County Public Health

Adrienne Falcon, Director of Academic Civic Engagement, Carleton College Center for Community and Civic Engagement

Teddy Gelderman, TORCH (Tackling Obstacles & Raising College Hopes) Program Co-Coordinator

Natalie Ginter, Director of Community Engagement and Development, South Region, Allina Health

Brianna Gustafson, Coordinator of Community Benefit and Engagement, South Region, Allina Health

Ellen Haefner, EFCE Teacher, Northfield Public Schools

Kim Horner, TORCH (Tackling Obstacles & Raising College Hopes) Program Co-Coordinator

Nate Jacobi, Associate Director for Service & Leadership, St. Olaf College Piper Center for Vocation and Career

Anne Marie Leland, Director of Community Education, Faribault Public Schools 

Yesica Louis, Coordinator for Adult Basic Education, Faribault Public Schools

Charlie Mandile, Executive Director of HealthFinders Collaborative

Nalani McCutcheon, Executive Director of Cannon River STEM School

Kathy Ness, Children’s Librarian, Northfield Public Library

Zach Pruitt, Director of Northfield Healthy Community Initiative

Deb Purfeerst, Director of Rice County Public Health

Josh Ramaker, Healthy Rice County SHIP Coordinator, Rice County Public Health

Kathy Sandberg, Coordinator for Rice County Family ServicesCollaborative

Mark Shaw, Director of Rice County Social Services

Erica Staab-Absher, Executive Director of the HOPE Center 

Mike Thorsteinson, Executive Director of Three Rivers Community Action 

Dawn Tommerdahl, Parent, Family, Community Engagement Coordinator, Three Rivers Community Action 

Carolyn Treadway, Director of SHAC (So How Are the Children)

Vicki Turner, Early Childhood Coordinator, Northfield Public Schools

Adam VonRuden, Executive Director of United Way of Faribault

Tammy Vraspir, Education Coordinator, Three Rivers Community Action

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