The Future of Food with Dr. Robert Paarlberg

In a new series of video conversations, Global Minnesota President Mark Ritchie sits down with experts and leading thinkers working across a spectrum of global sectors to discuss timely and important international issues. In this second interview, Mark talks with...

The Future of Food with Dr. Robert Paarlberg

In a new series of video conversations, Global Minnesota President Mark Ritchie sits down with experts and leading thinkers working across a spectrum of global sectors to discuss timely and important international issues. In this second interview, Mark talks with...

World Health Day Symposium 2021

Global Minnesota hosts an important virtual symposium to mark World Health Day on April 7. The official theme for the day is Health Equity. This enormous topic extends all the way from local grassroots issues to global policy initiatives. With...

Emily Miller

Emily Miller is an experienced international development and humanitarian practitioner. Areas of practice and research include economic recovery, global famine and nutrition interventions, conflict and reconciliation, emergency response, monitoring, evaluation, and learning, and human rights with a focus on supply...

Global Conversations: Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis in Somalia

Ongoing drought conditions and a changing climate have culminated in agricultural disaster in the East African nation of Somalia. Millions are facing acute hunger insecurity and many are leaving Somalia for neighboring Kenya, seeking stability and improved conditions. Watch this conversation...

World Health Day Follow-Up Conversation

Continue the learning of the World Health Day Symposium. Global Minnesota and Marnita’s Table invite you to join online for Engage! Exploring Health Equity 2021 an intimate conversation across difference to discuss actionable solutions to address health inequities and learn...

Global Conversations MINNEAPOLIS: Trade and Politics

Online registration is now closed. Walk-ins welcome. The U.S. political mood toward trade has gone sour. One need look no further than the 2016 presidential contest for the popular narrative: trade means that China wins, at America’s expense. But do...

Global Conversations ST. PAUL: Trade and Politics

The U.S. political mood toward trade has gone sour. One need look no further than the 2016 presidential contest for the popular narrative: trade means that China wins, at America’s expense. But do the numbers support that conclusion? The metrics...

International Journalists Visit Minnesota Media Outlets

This month, journalists and broadcast professionals from the Edward R. Murrow program visited local Minnesota news agencies to understand U.S. press freedoms, illustrate how new technologies shape the news, examine how media influences and reflects American society, and demonstrate the...

Modernizing America’s Diplomacy with Ambassador Neumann

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! This free event is being held in-person and virtually and is open to everyone.  Diplomacy is vital to protecting Americans at home and abroad, advancing the nation’s security interests, and opening markets for American goods. However, this...

2023 High School Academic WorldQuest Competition

This event is being held in-person and virtually and is open to Minnesota high school students only. Test your students’ global IQ at our annual international knowledge competition for high school students – Academic WorldQuest. This FREE event challenges high school...

Free International Student Membership

Join our network. Thank you for your interest in Global Minnesota! We are delighted to offer complimentary memberships to international students. All international students are welcome to join. Please fill out the fields below to join the Global Minnesota network for free...

Michele Garnett McKenzie

Michele Garnett McKenzie serves on the senior leadership team at The Advocates for Human Rights. She also leads the organization's research, education, and advocacy team and is responsible for advocacy on The Advocates' domestic priority issues. Michele joined the staff...

Recent Exchanges

Check out highlights from professional exchange programs we have recently hosted. Africa A group of advocates, elected officials, and law enforcement professionals from Liberia visited Minnesota to discuss combating human trafficking. Law enforcement professionals from Rwanda met with members of law enforcement,...

Professional Exchanges

Passionate individuals from around the globe in a variety of fields are working to define new trajectories for their communities. Their important work offers them the chance to meet face-to-face with counterparts across the United States. Global Minnesota is proud...

SDG Roundtable: Tools to Envision a Restorative Future

This free event is being held in-person and virtually and is open to everyone. We all plan ahead. Companies and organizations set sustainability goals with a combination of short-term and long-term targets. But what about very long-term goals? The United...

2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony Party

This free event is being held in-person and is open to everyone.  Get ready for the 2024 Olympic games in Paris with Global Minnesota, Alliance Française, and the Minneapolis Cider Company! Gather your team and join any time between 1:00...

Expo 2020: A Youth Ambassador’s Perspective

Addison Cross Expo 2020 Youth Ambassador When I saw a Facebook post about the World Expo 2020 in Dubai, I thought the opportunity was too good to be true. Seventy-five Youth Ambassadors between the ages of 18 and 29 would...