Jeannine EricksonJeannine Erickson is Washington born and Minnesota raised writer, forever educator and the Program Manager at Green Card Voices. She graduated from the St. Catherine University with a Double Major in Critical Studies of Race and Ethnicity and French.She identifies as a Biracial Black Woman and a Transracial Adoptee with extensive experience in public speaking, facilitation, intentional community building, and quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis. She is a Black-American/Decendant of Enslaved Africans individual with over three plus years of nonprofit, organizing, and programming experience.

During her time with her former nonprofit 826 MSP, Jeannine worked on two publishing projects: Words Unburden Me and Rehumanize Me. For Words Unburden Me, she and other 826 staff and volunteers partnered with three classes of ninth-grade English Language Learners at South High during the 2019-20 school year. Together they worked with students to think and write about themes of identity, family, heritage, and language. Students explored pressing issues such as gun violence, racism, immigration, historical trauma, and much more. In Rehumanize Me- an anthology of poems, essays, and other creative works by 14 young Black authors from Minneapolis - Jeannine worked closely with our young authors, some who she had known since first starting in the role, to publish this piece de resistance and 826 MSP's first racially/ethnically specific youth anthology.

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