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Dakota Creative Connections Suspends Grantmaking

February 25, 2010—

Over the course of two years, artists from North Dakota and South Dakota collaborated with the Bush Foundation to explore new ways of supporting the professional development of artists in the region through the Dakota Creative Connections grant program

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Fellow Bios

Miriam Duchess Harris

2009 Leadership Fellow
Minnesota

Career Field: Education
Secondary Field: Higher Education
Fellowship Plan: To complete a J.D. at William Mitchell College of Law.
Long-Term Goal: To be a law school dean; to lead in higher education by diversifying the curriculum, faculty and students; and to be a change agent.

Harris strives to be a change agent in higher education by diversifying curriculum, faculty and students. She will complete a law degree at William Mitchell College of Law and plans to open a center at a law school to serve women leaving prison that focuses on the many challenges they will face. Harris is associate professor of American studies at Macalester College.