Marcia Avner, Public Policy Director, Minnesota Council of Non-Profits
Harriet Barlow, Executive Director of the Blue Mountain Center (NY)
Jeff Blodgett, Executive Director of Wellstone Action and campaign manager for Paul Wellstone
Julia Classen, co-owner of Aurora Consulting (on non-profit management)
Prof. Barbara Crosby, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Erin Dady, Marketing Director, City of St. Paul
Rev. Rob Eller-Isaacs, Co-Minister, Unity Church-Unitarian in St. Paul
Katherine Fennelly, Professor, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota
Arvonne Fraser, former U.S. Ambassador to the UN Commission on the Status of Women
Don Fraser, former eight-term Congressman and three-term Minneapolis Mayor
Gregory N. Gray, former Board Vice Chair, is founder of the Minnesota Initiative to End Poverty
Joan Growe, former Minnesota Secretary of State, 1975 to 1999, and former state legislator
Keith Halleland, founder of Halleland Law, provide services pro bono to Heartland Democracy
Chris Hanson, CEO of thedatabank, inc., provider of online database services
Rachelle Horowitz, former long-time American Federation of Teachers political director
George Latimer, former long-time Mayor of St. Paul and head of the National League of Cities
Mary Pat Lee, Executive Director of the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery
Mary McKinley, consultant to public policy groups, donors, and foundations, based in New York
Patrick Marx, Partner, Walker & Associate in Grand Rapids, Minnesota and former journalist
Prof. Emeritus Frank Miller, anthropologist at the University of Minnesota
Ted Mondale, CEO of NAZCA Solutions, Inc. and former Chair of the MN Metropolitan Council
Charles Mundale, Professor Emeritus, Minnesota State University at Mankato
Donald Ostrom, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, St. Olaf College; former state legislator
Prof. Joel Rogers, former Board Member and Director, Center on Wisconsin Strategy (COWS)
and the Center for State Innovation at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
James Southwick, former Board Chair, is a businessman and an attorney
Kathy Tunheim, CEO of Tunheim Partners, a public affairs and public relations firm
Paul Williams, Senior Vice President at the Local Initiative Support Corporation (LISC)