Native Business Magazine • 2nd June 2021 Sioux Chef story When you think of Native American cuisine, what comes to mind? Indian tacos? Buffalo burgers? Frybread? While beloved by many Natives and certainly tasty, these dishes are not the traditional foods of Indian country.
Wisconsin School News • 1st June 2021 We are listening! A few years back, Jack Jorgensen and his colleagues were driving back to Madison from the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance (WiRSA) Conference in Stevens Point when they had an epiphany.
Madison Magazine • 16th February 2018 The Newcomer's Guide to Madison When you move someplace new, you're lucky if there is a moment of reassurance that yes, you're in the right place. For newcomers to Madison, that moment is likely to happen when ...
Spectrum Magazine • 18th February 2018 Living Biracial Every kid, every day, whatever it takes. That's Rainey Briggs' motto. Thirty-seven-year-old Briggs ... is the only African American male elementary school principal in the Madison area.
Wisconsin Center for Education Research • 8th June 2021 MSAN Gives Voice to Minority Students Guery Ulunque has come a long way since he first landed in the United States from Bolivia with his father and sister in 2008. The now-18-year-old senior at Yorktown High School in Arlington, Va., recalls his struggles.
St. Mary's College • 18th February 2018 'House of Cards' Star Opens Up You could say that the 38-year-old Mahershala Ali owes his acting career to his grandfather. A gifted athlete from Hayward, Calif., Ali attended Saint Mary’s College on a basketball scholarship.
3rd May 2020 Grandma's Teapot A very old silver teapot sits like a trinket on a table in my hallway, surrounded by pictures and other tchotchkes. Like many things that are old, it goes unnoticed. Not one person who has ever walked by that table has ever commented on the tarnished antique. Nor, shame on me, have I ever made them aware of it.
Wisconsin Center for Education Research • 8th June 2021 Re-Making the World of Education Pancake-making robots. A mechanical horse. A life-sized mousetrap. No, these aren’t highlights from the latest episode of “Shark Tank.” But they are real-life inventions of a burgeoning community of artists, do-it-yourselfers and entrepreneurs known as “makers”...
Wisconsin Center for Education Research • 8th June 2021 Speaking Up for Special Students Cha Kai Yang and Miguel Hernandez Bolanos are thrilled to be working at the University of Wisconsin‒Madison. It is a dream job for 22-year-old Bolanos, a lifelong Badger fan. For Yang, 19, the best part is earning a paycheck.
Native Business Magazine • 11th December 2018 Native Stylist Brings Metropolitan Vibe to Salon in Rapid City, South Dakota Marissa Frazier is a hair artist. For 17 years, she rented chair space from various salon owners to cut, weave, color, layer and style the hair of a steady flow of clients. But she always dreamed of running her own business someday, envisioning a modern, sleek salon like those in New York or Los Angeles, staffed by an “A” team of hair stylists.
Indian Country Today • 7th June 2021 A Home Run Liz Somers will never forget the first Major League Baseball game she attended.
OC Family Magazine • 23rd February 2018 AWARD WINNER! The 'Other' Woman Houston, we have a problem. Her name is Carolyn. Carolyn is my ex-husband’s girlfriend. They live together with her two pre-teens and most likely, they’ll marry. I’m OK with that part. You know what they say: “One woman’s junk is another woman’s treasure.”
3rd May 2020 Ho-Chunk Nation Envisions a Sports Complex Next time you're driving westbound on Interstate 90/39, near Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison, picture this: a sprawling, state-of-the-art sports and entertainment complex that rivals the best of them ... Can you see it?
23rd February 2018 AWARD WINNER! Sorry Situation Last week, my oldest daughter dropped a bombshell. She did not want to spend the night at her dad’s anymore because she doesn’t sleep well there. “It’s dark and cold” and her sister snores. To my great surprise, I was overcome with compassion for my ex.
Indian Country Today • 28th February 2018 Indian Trail Trees: Hang a Left at Your Ancestral Roots In 2002, a group of retired men began hiking together once a week in the Appalachian Mountains and started finding old, scenic trails they claimed nobody knew about.
On Wisconsin Magazine • 7th June 2021 A Capitol Idea History can be challenging, trying to remember so many names, dates and places. But the video game "Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case" makes Wisconsin history so cool.
Native Business Magazine • 12th July 2018 Utah, Airbnb Partnership Could Equate to Big Bucks for Natives If someone told you that you could make up to $200,000 a year simply by sharing your passion for hiking, telling stories by the campfire or preparing an authentic Native meal, would you do it? It’s a tempting proposition, isn’t it? That’s exactly the concept behind Airbnb’s newest sharing platform called “Experiences.”
Wisconsin Center for Education Research • 20th February 2018 Motion Meets Emotion: Dance Program for Underserved Girls On a Saturday afternoon in early May, 75 excited schoolgirls took to the stage at historic Lathrop Hall on the University of Wisconsin‒Madison campus to dance their hearts out. “I’m famous!” shouted a 10-year-old after her performance.
Field Day Lab • 12th October 2018 Video: Jo Wilder and the Capitol Case I produced and edited this video that is downloadable from the PBS Wisconsin website.
Native Business Magazine • 4th September 2019 A Mashantucket Pequot Revives a Maple Syrup Enterprise When Jeremy Whipple was 10 years old, his uncles, Robert and Richard Hayward, took him and his cousins down to the sugar shack on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation to show them how to make maple syrup. Uncle Richard “Skip” Hayward, the Tribal chairman at the time, launched and ran the operation for nearly a decade.
