Diane Houle poses for a portrait in a rendition of her daughter Jennifer's bedroom while holding her senior portrait at her home in Woodbury on Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. Houle's daughter, a student at the University of Minnesota died of suicide in 2015. Diane said that we can all make an impact by the way we think, address, and talk about mental health, and by the way we help others.
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Me'Lea Connelly poses for a portrait in her office in North Minneapolis on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Connelly is director of development at Village, a proposed community development financial cooperative. Her organization currently helps people who are in trouble with payday loans and predatory lending. Her product, the New Day Loan helps people who need loans pay off payday loans with lower interest rates. Tony Saunders | MPR News 2018
Sara Nelson-Pallmeyer, executive director at Exodus Lending poses for a portrait in front of ACE Cash Express, a payday lender in Minneapolis on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018. Nelson-Pallmeyer works with people stuck in debt from predatory lending refinance their payday loans with no interest or fees. Nelson-Pallmeyer said that her organization started at Holy Trinity Church, which is just behind her office on Lake Street, when people started to talk about their debts from predatory lending. Since then, Nelson-Pallmeyer said Exodus Lending has helped 211 people. Tony Saunders | MPR News 2018
Attorney General-elect Keith Ellison poses for a portrait in Saint Paul on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018. Tony Saunders | MPR News 2018
Apple Valley wrestler, Sebas Swiggum poses for a portrait at Apple Valley High School on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019
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Swiggum maintains a 4.0 G.P.A. and plans to attend the University of Minnesota after high school.
Anna Peterson, director of Step Up, a youth employment program poses for a portrait in Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 5, 2019
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From March 18-21, Step Up will give mock interviews for 1,600 kids ages 18-21.
Mason Persons poses for a portrait in his apartment in the Powderhorn neighborhood in Minneapolis on Monday, April 8, 2019. Persons was formerly homeless and after living with a host family for a year through a program that helps youths get support services and look for stable housing, he has gotten his first apartment. Persons strives to become a costume designer, and his apartment is full of his creations.
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Keith Yorek, a bovine blood lab technician and graduate student in the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine program poses for a portrait at the Dairy Cattle Teaching Research Center on the Saint Paul campus on Thursday, April 4.
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Incoming freshmen Crew Bold, left and Donte McKinney pose for a portrait after practice at Cooke Hall on Tuesday, July 16. Both have qualified for the junior U.S. Championships in August.
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Madeline Maxwell poses for a portrait
Local artist Patricio Delara poses for a portrait.
Taken for the Growler Magazine’s 75th issue.
University president Eric Kaler answers questions from the Minnesota Daily in his Morrill Hall office on Thursday, Feb. 14.
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