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Lindsay Mielke

Lindsay recently graduated from St. Cloud University in St. Cloud, Minn., with a bachelor’s degree in Creative Writing and a minor in Travel and Tourism. She grew up in a small town on Lake Superior in Minnesota — Grand Marais — the same town that is part of her KCI project. Her parents operate aContinue reading “Lindsay Mielke”

Connie Rutledge

As Associate Director of the Carlson Ventures Enterprise at the University of Minnesota, Connie Rutledge brings over 10 years of experience in entrepreneurship and business management. As an analyst with an early stage venture capital firm, she reviewed over 500 business plans and helped guide local entrepreneurs through due diligence to completed financing. As theContinue reading “Connie Rutledge”

Kevin Biehn

Kevin Biehn is the Marketing Director and a Partner with the Twin Cities–based environmental engineering firm Emmons & Olivier Resources (EOR). A registered landscape architect, with sustainability and water resource accreditations, Kevin has a unique blend of ecological, architectural and sustainable design expertise.