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<br /> Garrison Keillor, Thursday's f' u.,.
<br /> keynote speaker, is one of America's i r. Anton Treuer, Awards
<br /> most beloved radio hosts and acclaimed Banquet Speaker, is Executive Director
<br /> humorists. He was born in 1942 in t" ,
<br /> of the American Indian Resource Center
<br /> Anoka, Minnesota,and began his radio at Bemidji State University and author
<br /> career as a freshman at the University Marilyn Carlson Nelson, of thirteen books. He has a B.A.from
<br /> of Minnesota,from which he graduated Friday's keynote speaker, is former Princeton University and a M.A.and
<br /> in 1966. He went to work for Minnesota chairman and CEO of Carlson,which Ph.D.from the University of Minnesota.
<br /> Public Radio in 1969,and on July 6, includes such brands as Radisson Blu He is editor of the Oshkaabewis Native
<br /> 1974, he hosted the first broadcast and Radisson Hotels,Country Inns and Journal,the only academic journal of the
<br /> of A Prairie Home Companion in St. Suites,and Carlson Wagonlit Travel. Ojibwe language. Dr.Treuer sits on many
<br /> Paul.Today,some 4 million listeners Forbes named her one of"The World's organizational boards and has received
<br /> on more than 600 public radio stations 100 Most Powerful Women"and more than forty prestigious awards and
<br /> coast to coast and beyond tune in to U.S. News and World Report called fellowships, including ones from the
<br /> the show each week. Keillor has been her one of"America's Best Leaders." American Philosophical Society,the
<br /> honored with Grammy,ACE,and George Marilyn served as co-chair of the World National Endowment for the Humanities,
<br /> Foster Peabody awards,the National Economic Forum,chair of the National the National Science Foundation,
<br /> Humanities Medal,and election to the Women's Business Council,and chair the MacArthur Foundation,the Bush
<br /> American Academy of Arts and Letters. of the U.S.Travel and Tourism Advisory Foundation,and the John Simon
<br /> His many books include Lake Wobegon Board.She also serves on the boards of Guggenheim Foundation. His published
<br /> Days, The Book of Guys, Pilgrims:A the UN Global Compact,the Committee works include Everything You Wanted
<br /> Wobegon Romance,and Guy Noir and Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy,and to Know About Indians But Were Afraid
<br /> the Straight Skinny. In 2007, he opened The Kennedy Center for the Performing to Ask, Ojibwe in Minnesota,and The
<br /> an independent bookstore,Common Arts,and is past chair of the Mayo Clinic Assassination of Hole in the Day,which
<br /> Good Books, in St. Paul,where he lives Board of Trustees. Marilyn teaches won the AASLH Award of Merit in 2012.
<br /> with his wife and daughter. corporate responsibility to MBA students
<br /> at the University of Minnesota's Carlson
<br /> School of Management and is the
<br /> author of the bestselling book How We
<br /> Lead Matters: Reflections on a Life of
<br /> Leadership.
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