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"We need people at the table living the life impacted by these promises"

©Lisa Johnson

The Local Solutions to Poverty Candidate forums last fall gave folks running for mayor and the city council a chance to address issues surrounding homelessness, poverty and equity in Duluth.

Last week, they followed up those candidate forums with an Accountability Session: Local Solutions to Poverty Forum, a chance to check in with the newly-elected officials and see what progress they're making on the action steps they agreed to last year.

Forum sponsors include: NAACP, CHUM, Loaves & Fishes Community, Community Action Duluth, All Nations Indigenous Center, Citizen's Federation, Cross Cultural Alliance of Duluth, Together for Health at Myers Wilkens, Life House, Vision Duluth, PAVSA, Students for Education Reform, Voices for Racial Justice, Clatyon Jackson McGhie Memorial, Affordable Housing Coalition, Minnesota Coalition for the Homeless, SOAR Career Solutions, MPIRG UMD, Vision Duluth.

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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