Board of Directors

Five New Leaders Elected to MHC Board

The Minnesota Humanities Center is governed by a 28-member board of directors. Members serve four-year terms, volunteer their time, and come from all areas of the state, reflecting the state's cultural and geographic diversity.  We are happy to present the newest elected Board Members:  Andrew Currie, Cynthia Gehrig, Dr. William Green, Jean A. King and Robyne Robinson.

Andrew Currie is a fund-raising consultant and a founder and Managing Partner of Currie, Ferner, Scarpetta & DeVries, LLP. Since 1967, he has fulfilled senior management and consulting responsibilities for institutions and organizations throughout the country, including pre-campaign studies, strategic planning and financial analysis, fund-raising counsel, campaign supervision, governing board and volunteer leadership development, and staff training. He has served as a consultant to campaigns that have achieved over a billion dollars in gifts and grants. Currie has been a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences on capital campaigns and long-range financial planning, and has taught masters degree courses in fund-raising/capital campaigns at St. Mary's University in Minnesota.  

Cynthia (Cindy) Gehrig is President of the Jerome Foundation, a private foundation that makes grants in the arts in Minnesota and New York City. She joined the Foundation 33 years ago as a Program Associate, and has served as its Executive since 1978. Gehrig has served on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Council on Foundations, completing terms as both Vice-Chair and Chair, and as Chair of Grantmakers in the Arts. She facilitated the first Arts Funding Benchmark publication for The Foundation Center and Grantmakers in the Arts. She is the former Managing Trustee and Chair of the Camargo Foundation, an operating Foundation that supports scholarly and artistic work through subsidized fellowship residencies at a work-study center in Cassis, France. She served as Vice Chair on the Board of ITVS, the Independent Television Service, and is currently serving as Board Chair of Habitat for Humanity of Minnesota.

As superintendent of Minneapolis Public Schools, Dr. William Green was directly responsible for overseeing the district’s business functions and academic achievement for all students. He served on the Minneapolis Board of Education from 1993-2001 and was board chair from 1996-1998.  In addition to his history professorship at Augsburg, he also serves as an adjunct professor at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. Dr. Green holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Gustavus Adolphus College, a master’s degree in educational psychology, a doctorate in education, and a juris doctorate from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.  Dr. Green has contributed more than 30 articles to scholarly and popular press publications.

Jean A. King is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development at the University of Minnesota. She received her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Cornell University and taught middle school English in upstate New York before moving to New Orleans, LA to become a professor at Tulane University. In 1989 she moved upriver to the University of Minnesota as the founding director of the Center for Applied Research and Educational Improvement in the College of Education and Human Development, a position she held for four years before working collaboratively to revitalize program evaluation instruction in the College. King founded the Minnesota Evaluation Studies Institute (MESI) in 1996 and currently serves as its director. With over thirty years of experience conducting evaluations, she has taught evaluation courses and mentored graduate students for 15 years. A sought-after presenter and long-time writer on evaluation, she is the author of numerous articles, chapters, and reviews and retains an abiding interest in participatory evaluation and evaluation capacity building.

Robyne L. Robinson began her professional career tracking news for WNDU-TV in South Bend, Indiana. Later, she served as Military Affairs reporter for WVEC-TV in the Hampton-Norfolk area of Virginia. The Texas Association of Broadcasters honored her while working at WFAA-TV in Dallas. At WFAA-TV she covered local politics, education and public affairs. While serving as the weekend anchor at WMAR-TV in Baltimore, she was awarded the Gannett-Paul Miller Fellowship for reporting Washington politics.  For 20 years she was a reporter and then news anchor/co-anchor for Fox affiliate KMSP in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. She was the first African-American anchor in the state of Minnesota and has worked with KMSP-TV since 1995, when KMSP was independent Minnesota 9.

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