Emily Pearson Ryan, Operations Manager
Emily Pearson Ryan (emily@tcdailyplanet.net) is the Operations Manager for the Twin Cities Media Alliance. She maintains financial records and budgets for the organization, and generally supports the work of her Daily Planet colleagues any way that she can. Emily keeps impeccable “to do” lists, which is the skill that most qualifies her for the job.
Emily grew up in St. Paul, completed thirteen years of Catholic schooling, and promptly threw it all out the window by attending Macalester College, where she studied political science and Spanish. She feels passionately drawn to youth work and has completed work towards a graduate degree in instruction from Saint Mary’s University in Minneapolis. She is a member of the collectively-run Jack Pine Community Center, where she learned the ins and outs of QuickBooks, earning her the title “Anarchist Bookkeeper.” Her parents are proud.
Emily spends most of her time in the shadow of her adorable infant offspring, Orren Grace. Orren, except when teething, is as easy a baby to have around as anyone could ask for. Emily lives with Orren, her partner Johnny, four other adults, one other child, and two cats in the Phillips neighborhood in South Minneapolis.
Book note: Moppets' monograph marks Minnesota milestones
Record high gas prices have many Minnesotans staying close to home this vacation season. Now, I’m not one for suggesting that a book (or any product, for that matter) can do much to ease that mid-summer wanderlust, but if you’re on the market for some reading material to offer your children a glimpse of the Minnesota you remember from your own gas-guzzling, road-tripping formative years, I Spy With My Little Eye: Minnesota might do the trick. Written by Kathy-jo and Ed Wargin and published by Sleeping Bear Press, this book paints a portrait of Minnesota that might be straight out of the gift shop at Lake Itasca State Park (you know, along with the rock candy and the birch bark piggy banks). MORE »
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