A generation of young people are moving back to the small towns where they grew up, hoping to cultivate roots and restore neglected communities on.wsj.com/3rIcwpG

“Uprooted should be a provocation … for readers to reconsider their own relationship to their place: What is the history of your place? … How has your life either enriched or impoverished the places from which it has drawn sustenance?” frontporchrepublic.com/2021/03/tendin…

Grateful to be featured alongside my favorite homecomers Sarah Smarsh, Dr. Veronica Womack, and our amazing Lead For America Hometown Fellows!

An invitation to be more childlike in the way we care for our neighbors. womenspress.com/view-asian-ame…

.Benya Kraus urges readers to turn “rural proximity into transformative relationships: the kind that sees and values difference, with an affection so profound that we cannot realize our own humanity without fighting for yours as well.” womenspress.com/view-asian-ame…

We have 9 amazing young leaders "sharing the mics" of 9 committed and passionate leaders from a cross-sector of industries in our state TODAY! Please join and follow the #wfmnxsharethemicmn conversations across all social channels. Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Two-thirds of college educated millennials live and work in just 52 U.S. metro areas. Lead For America is a program designed to bring young talent back home after college, to help build up their under-resourced communities. Adriana Diaz has more.

Kudos to #WFMNxSHARETHEMICMN Alumna, Benya Kraus for the leadership she provides to Lead For America and @LeadforMN! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Women's Foundation of Minnesota @BethFordLOL

Inspired, as always, by the love for and commitment to their hometowns that these Fellows bring.

We are so proud to host a Lead For America Fellow in southern Minnesota. What a great program.

Happy birthday to the queen 👑 Dolly Parton! In honor, we pulled up some Dolly content from our archive: a conversation with Sarah Smarsh , author of "She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs." bit.ly/3rvV74w

A joyous reflection on Dolly Parton’s birthday! We could all use more soul talk and red lip in the world. Thanks for inspiring always, Sarah Smarsh.

US Supreme Court rules in favor of marriage equality in all 50 states! #SCOTUSMarriage owl.li/OQ8Oc

"What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things." —President Obama #LoveWins

Here's audio footage of the whole unAmerican encounter.

Hillary has to debate Trump while fact-checking him. Can you imagine it? A woman having to work twice as hard as a man for the same position