About Us APA Minnesota Chapter

The Minnesota Chapter of the American Planning Association is a non-profit statewide organization of over 900 planning professionals, educators, local officials and planning commissioners who are involved in planning-related activities on behalf of state and regional agencies, counties, cities, towns, educational institutions and the private sector. APA Minnesota is a chapter of the American Planning Association (APA), a non-profit public interest and research organization whose origins date back to 1917.

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Mark Your Calendars! APA MN 2024 Planning Conference

The 2024 Planning Conference will be held in September Bloomington, MN

Thursday, September 19- Friday, September 20

The conference will be all day on Thursday and a half day (AM) on Friday

Conference Location: Hyatt Regency Bloomington | 3200 E 81st St, Bloomington, MN 55425

Interested in Sponsoring? Please contact info@planningmn.org

Stay tuned for more info coming soon!

DEI Committee Webinar CM Opportunity

Join our DEI Committee and Terresa Moses for “The Many Ways of Knowing: Planning and Implementing Equitable Community Engagement.” This session explores community engagement that begins on a foundation of equity and social justice principles and provides different opportunities for all participants to share their stories and express their needs and aspirations for their communities. Many Ways of Knowing values all stories that communities share regardless of the medium and actively seeks stories through a variety of mediums, like art, graffiti, oral history, and play. The session will also share how to analyze and report what engagement participants' share and how to use this information to be responsive to the communities we serve.

Details

Thursday, May 9, 2024

12:00 pm- 1:00 pm Central Time

Free to attend via Zoom-- Zoom links will be sent out prior to event after registering

Learning Objectives:

• Planning with equity values and building community engagement decisions on the foundation
• Planning community engagement activities that are sensitive to participants' background
• Identifying accessible and interesting activities for engagement
• Evaluating, drafting, and publishing results

Speakers:

Terresa Moses is a proud Black queer woman dedicated to the liberation of Black and brown people through art and design. She uses creativity as tools of community activism like her solo exhibition, Umbra, and her community distro project, Stop Killing Black People. She created Project Naptural and co-created Racism Untaught. She has published two books, Racism Untaught and An Anthology of Blackness.

Moses is the Creative Director at Blackbird Revolt and an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design and the Director of Design Justice at the University of Minnesota. She is currently a PhD candidate in Social Justice Education at the University of Toronto. She serves on the advisory board of the Black Liberation Lab.

Michelle Lincoln, AICP, prioritizes opportunities and practices that embrace anti-racism and use urban planning and environmental justice to better social, political, and built environments and improve the quality of life for people and communities. Urban planning has affected the lives of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) like herself in detrimental ways; urban renewal alone decimated BIPOC communities across the nation and land dispossession severed access to self-determination, wealth, and health. She currently works at the City of Bloomington in Minnesota, sits on the board of the APA Minnesota Chapter as the DEI Committee Co-Chair, and serves as a mentor for students and new professionals from her alma mater, University of Michigan.

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