August 16, 2006 - Voices of Minnesota visits two activists: Dr. Steve Miles and Laura Waterman Wittstock. Miles is author of a new book about the role American physicians played in torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wittstock is the first American Indian to win the coveted Louis W. Hill Jr. fellowship in philanthropy at the University of Minnesota.
June 15, 1992 - MPR’s Stephen Smith reports on a mediation program focused specifically for Native Americans in Minnesota. The mediation panel consists of twelve 11 Elders trained to assist with courtroom alternative. Several local Indian organizations banded together to create the council.
May 19, 1992 - A panel forum discussion, titled "Are Middle-Class Values Cultural Impositions or the Only Real Way Out of Poverty?", sponsored by the Center of the American Experiment. Panelists Imam Matthew Ramadan, the executive director of the Northside Residents Redevelopment Council; Steven Belton, a lawyer with Leonard, Street and Dienard; Luanne Nyberg, the director of the Children's Defense Fund in Minnesota; Laura Waterman Wittstock, president of MIGIZI Communications; and Mitchell Pearlstein of the Center of the American Experiment, provide commentary on poverty and social economic issues. Forum was moderated by John Brandl, a professor at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey Institute.