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About me

I love everything Minnesota, enjoy eating great food, writing, thinking about life, and being active. Social justice and nonprofits, especially surrounding education and food justice consume most of my life.

 

Favorite Places: 
Saint Paul, Lake of the Isles, most Vietnamese and Thai food places, The YMCA, New Ulm, Caribou Coffee shops with great friends, on my yoga mat, near my computer, watching Mad Men
Activities: 
Volunteering, Photography, Swimming, Biking, Running, Yelping, Wordpressing, Commuting
Interests: 
Social Justice, Food Justice, Sociology, Writing, Yoga, Reading, Conversations
Personal Web site: 
Knowledge Is Liberation
Facebook profile
Twitter: 
@ValerieSteffl
Column: 
1 Malaysian. 1 Minnesotan. 1 Minneapolis.

Bike and Bite Celebrates the International Year of the Cooperative in Minneapolis

By Valerie Steffl, TC Daily Planet

Photos by Valerie Steffl

Minnesota is topping charts of places to eat and bike, but many may not know that we also live in the land of 1,000 co-ops.

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Human rights prosecutions change world politics, says Kathryn Sikkink, 2012 Robert Kennedy Book Award winner

By Valerie Steffl, TC Daily Planet

Kathryn Sikkink wins the national Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for her work The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Changed World Politics.

(Photo courtesy of Kathryn Sikkink.)

Kathryn Sikkink, University of Minnesota Regents Professor and Human Rights Program Advisory Board Chair was awarded the 2012 Robert Kennedy Book Award by Ethel Kennedy on May 24 at the United Stat

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MN VOICES | Tenzin Pelkyi: From refugee family to U of M law student

By Valerie Steffl, TC Daily Planet

(Photo courtesy of Tenzin Pelkyi)

In a coffee shop full of University of Minnesota students behind glowing screens in the peak of finals weekend study hours, there is nothing outwardly remarkable about Tenzin Pelkyi.

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Central Corridor Walkability Surveys launch on May 6

By Valerie Steffl, TC Daily Planet

Marry Morris (front) looks over the Walkability survey draft before venturing into the streets to complete it. Photos by Valerie Steffl.

Walk. Observe. Connect.

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Gardening growing in Twin Cities: Four hundred show up for resource fair in St. Paul

By Valerie Steffl, TC Daily Planet

Liz Foster of the Community Design Center of Minnesota explains the program's youth internship opportunities to an interested Resource Fair goer. (Photo by Valerie Steffl) 

UPDATED 4/5/2012 (see note at end of article) - Urban farming and community gardening, once thought of as passing fads, have now become a large national movement addressing the health and vitality

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Phillips Food Justice Table builds on South Minneapolis resources

By Valerie Steffl, TC Daily Planet

Waite House mural (Photo by Megan Kocher, Creative Commons license)

Minneapolis’ Phillips neighborhood activists, urban farmers and organization representatives packed the Waite House meeting room February 2 for the second Phillips Food Justice Table.

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FREE SPEECH ZONE | Hmong Farmers Stepping Up to Help Build a Local Food System

By Theresa Heiland and Valerie Steffl, Free Speech Zone

Pang Kou, Robert and Nancy Lee at the University of St. Thomas

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