This is Maggie.
Maggie Lorenz 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.
Maggie is the Executive Director of Lower Phalen Creek Project. She is an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe and also descends from Spirit Lake Dakota Nation. She is a self-described Eastsider who keeps her work hyper local for her community. Previously, Maggie worked for 10 years in education and student engagement at Metropolitan State and St. Paul Public Schools.
Lower Phalen Creek Project is a Native-led environmental conservation nonprofit that engages people to honor and care for green spaces and the sacred sites and cultural value within them on St. Paul’s East Side. Founded in 1997 by community activists, the Project stretches from Lake Phalen to the Mississippi River and throughout the East Side River District.
Power of 100 is raising funds at Pitchfest 2020 to invest in general operating support for Lower Phalen Creek Project including an effort for Wakan Tipi Cave, a site of great cultural and historical importance in the region that the Project is developing in partnership with the Dakota Community as a cultural and environmental interpretive center. Wakan Tipi means Dwelling Place of the Sacred in the Dakota language.
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!
