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Could your past stand up to scrutiny?

Emily Baxter/We Are All Criminals

We've all been there. 

People of a certain age laughing with our friends about our wilder days and the things we got away with.

But those "wild oats" don't define us; don't move through our lives with us or in front of us, telling landlords or employers who we are, years - even decades - after the incident.

At least, they don't for most of us, as long as we're not homeless or mentally ill or living in poverty.  Or a person of color.

How would your life be different if it was defined by a single act - indefinitely?

You can find out more about the We Are All Criminals event and advocacy at Duluth's Conflict Resolution Center and the We Are All Criminals website.

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.