Speaker Spotlight: Dr. Tyner

This is Dr. Artika Tyner. 

Dr. Tyner is one of three powerful community leaders you’ll have the opportunity to hear from, learn from and directly support at Power of 100 MSP's Pitchfest on Giving Tuesday.

Dr. Tyner is the Founder and Executive Director of Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute. She is an attorney, a law professor and the Founding Director of the Center on Race, Leadership and Social Justice at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Her list of published works includes law review articles, books, book chapters and children’s books. Dr. Tyner’s work is focused on training students to serve as social engineers who create new inroads to justice and freedom. 

Founded in 2014, Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute seeks to promote literacy and increase diversity in children’s books through K-12  leadership training, educational offerings and community outreach. Inspired by Dr. Tyner’s research, the theory of change used by Planting People Growing Justice is to ignite the leadership potential within each student K-12. Students who are not proficient in reading are 4X more likely to drop out of school and one in 10 male high school dropouts is in jail or juvenile detention. Dr. Tyner’s book, Justice Makes a Difference: The Story of Miss Freedom Fighter, Esquire won an award from the Minnesota Author Project and was among the top five most downloaded books in the U.S. this summer on BiblioBoard. 

Power of 100 is raising funds at Pitchfest 2020 on December to support the Planting People Growing Justice Leadership Institute. Pitchfest is a virtual get-together and activation on December 1 at 6:30 p.m. to raise $10,000 in one night for BIPOC-led organizations in the Twin Cities. Registration is free, but we ask all attendees to personally donate $100 online to Lower Phalen Creek Project or any of the three organizations featured at Pitchfest 2020. See you at Pitchfest!