In Person:  Wayzata Community Room, 600 Rice St E,  Wayzata MN 55391

Lunch will be served

 

 

 

 

 

 

ManufacturingPower was founded after realizing that the manufacturing industry currently has no way of objectively comparing prices for industrial supplies. That means that manufacturers may be spending far more than they need to on tooling, fasteners, clean room supplies, packaging and much more.  It started as a software tool that allows manufacturers to anonymously share data and compare pricing.  Through a network of data, this proprietary method can save companies on their total industrial supply spend.  

 

In Person:  Wayzata Community Room, 600 Rice St E,  Wayzata MN 55391

Lunch will be served

 

Jason Tarasek founded Minnesota Cannabis Law in 2018 to serve the hemp, cannabinoid, medical-marijuana and adult-use marijuana markets in the Upper Midwest. He serves on the board of directors of the Minnesota Cannabis Association. During the Spring of 2022, Jason successfully lobbied in favor of Minnesota’s “THC-infused edible” law. Over the course of several months, Jason worked closely with Majority Leader Ryan Winkler, Rep. Heather Edelson, Republican senators and a team of other talented lobbyists to draft and negotiate the terms of the groundbreaking legislation.

Previously, Jason served as the Minnesota Political Director for the Marijuana Policy Project. In this role, he helped draft legislation to legalize recreational marijuana for adults in Minnesota. He helped guide the bill to a legislative hearing during the Spring of 2019, which marked the first time in Minnesota’s history that a legislative committee provided a hearing on a legalization bill.

 

Jason is a co-founder of Minnesotans for Responsible Marijuana Regulation (“MRMR”), a multi-partisan advocacy group that presses for marijuana legalization in Minnesota. He currently serves on MRMR’s Steering Committee with Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter and a diverse range of attorneys, politicians, activists and business leaders.

 

 

 

 

 

In Person:  Wayzata Community Room, 600 Rice St E,  Wayzata MN 55391

Lunch will be served

Shelley Carthen Watson has served as the president and CEO of YWCA Minneapolis since August 2021.

Shelley is a nationally-renowned labor and employment law expert and came to YWCA Minneapolis from the University of Minnesota, where she served as senior associate general counsel in the Office of the General Counsel, providing legal advice and counsel for a public research institution with over 30,000 employees.

Prior to her role at the University of Minnesota, Shelley was a partner with the law firm of Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi. She was the first African American woman to become a partner in a large law firm in the state of Minnesota. A former deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, Shelley also served as executive director of the Hennepin County Bar Association and Hennepin County Bar Foundation. An honors graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, Shelley received her law degree from Northwestern University School of Law in 1985.

 

 

 

In Person:  Wayzata Community Room, 600 Rice St E,  Wayzata MN 55391

Lunch will be served

 

COMING EARLY 2022

A Memoir with a Purpose--When her husband was told he had early-stage Alzheimer’s at age seventy, Myrna Marofsky made a commitment to disregard the “tragedy talk” that typically surrounds this diagnosis. Instead, for five years she found ways to keep bad news from becoming a bad life. Her book is a love story that ended in a last dance with her husband just days before he died—his gift of gratitude.

 

About the Author:  Myrna Marofsky is a business consultant, author, mother, and grandmother. Beginning as a teacher in the Robbinsdale school district, she was part of a team that designed and wrote innovative educational programs. Years later served on the Robbinsdale school board. Myrna is a serial entrepreneur who started a computer training company, owned a diversity consulting and training firm, created diversity related products and training tools, wrote two business books, and founded The Business Women’s Circle, an organization to support women as they grow their businesses. For fun she manufactured and sold a travel backpack for women. Currently, Myrna works as a Chapter Chair for the Women Presidents Organization where she facilitates peer groups of women business owners. She is the recipient of the Minnesota Power 50 award and the NAWBO  Women of Vision Award.

 

 

Time 11:45am - 1:00pm

 

Think of the OASIS like the Swiss Army knife of water-based needs. It attaches to existing wells and is fueled by a single solar pump, providing clean water for drinking and everyday needs.

 

The OASIS was built with the purpose to provide people with clean water. To do this, we constructed it with a water storage unit in the upper half, and bathroom and prep sink on the bottom. The units provide villages access to proper sanitation practices where they can wash clothing and vegetables grown with irrigation supplied by the OASIS.

 

Our OASIS units are almost completely made out of a single 40-foot shipping container, which is transformed and stood on end to create a mini water tower using gravity to supply basic human needs.

 

Learn more at https://www.justcauseyoucan.org/