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Leadership

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Brian Juntti

Executive Vice President, Mission Enablement

Brian Juntti is an effective administrator and a customer service oriented leader, who provides executive leadership to the areas that support the Minnesota Historical Society in carrying out its mission to create powerful engagement with history. Brian is dedicated to collaboratively carrying out MNHS’s strategic plan through the Shared Services division he leads: Integrated Marketing Communications, People and Culture, and Technology Services.

Brian has extensive experience in nonprofit management, technology, marketing communications, and fundraising. Prior to joining MNHS as the chief communications and marketing officer in 2021, Brian served as the senior director of marketing and communications at Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity, where he worked for more than 17 years. 

He is a past co-chair and long-standing volunteer member of the steering committee of Leadership Twin Cities, a program of the Minneapolis Regional Chamber of Commerce. Brian is a current and long-standing member of the American Marketing Association. He has previously served on the MN AMA sponsorship committee, as well as being an active member of the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association and the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Brian holds a B.A. in Theater Arts and Film & Media Studies from Hamline University and earned his MBA from the University of St. Thomas’s Opus College of Business.

Governing board

Officers

  • Peter M. Reyes, Jr., President
  • Thomas M. Forsythe, Vice President, Treasurer
  • David R. Hakensen, Immediate Past President
  • Kent Whitworth, Secretary

Executive council

  • Ford W. Bell
  • Jesse Bethke Gomez
  • Linda Brekke Mona
  • M. Mitchell Davis
  • Elizabeth Driscoll Hlavka
  • Joanell M. Dyrstad
  • Richard E. Engebretson
  • Carolyn M. Essig
  • Stephanie L. Fehr
  • Thomas M. Forsythe
  • David R. Hakensen
  • Dustin B. Heckman
  • Bridget A. Larson-Lindner
  • Jennifer J. Murray

  • Richard C. Nash
  • Krista E. O’Malley
  • John Pacheco Jr.
  • Peter M. Reyes Jr.
  • Sharon Sayles Belton
  • Daniel J. Schmechel
  • Diana L. Schutter
  • Daniel W. Shogren
  • Roger J. Sit
  • Anton S. Treuer
  • John R. Tunheim
  • Noelle P. Turner
  • Kyle R. Ward
  • Gwen N. Westerman
  • Kent Whitworth (Nonvoting, Director & CEO)

 

Ex Officio

  • Tim Walz, Governor
  • Julie Blaha, State Auditor
  • Keith Ellison, Attorney General

  • Steve Simon, Secretary of State
  • Peggy Flanagan, Lieutenant Governor

Emeritus council

  • Nina M. Archabal+
  • Charles W. Arnason+
  • Annette Atkins+
  • Sharon Avent+
  • Bruce W. Bean+
  • Gretchen U. Beito+
  • Diane Berthel
  • Kathleen Blatz
  • Suzanne Blue
  • Robert Bruininks
  • Barbara E. Burwell
  • Judith S. Corson
  • Grant W. Davis
  • Mark Davis+
  • Michael J. Davis
  • Charlton Dietz+
  • D. Stephen Elliott
  • Michael B. Farnell

  • Harold A. Frederick
  • Ram Gada+
  • Phyllis Rawls Goff+
  • William Green
  • James T. Hale
  • MayKao Y. Hang
  • Stanley S. Hubbard
  • Karen A. Humphrey+
  • Ruth S. Huss
  • Lucy R. Jones+
  • Sylvia Kaplan+ 
  • Dennis L. Lamkin
  • Jean M. Larson
  • Monica Little
  • Elizabeth S. MacMillan+
  • Charles Mahar
  • Susan B. McCarthy
  • William C. Melton+

  • Joseph S. Micallef+
  • Dean M. Nelson
  • Richard H. Nicholson
  • Elizabeth M. Nordlie
  • Peter R. Reis
  • Mark Ritchie
  • Kennon V. Rothchild+
  • Susan Kenny Stevens
  • William R. Stoeri+
  • Edward C. Stringer
  • Bo Thao-Urabe
  • Karen Wilson Thissen
  • Missy Staples Thompson
  • Kathy H. Tunheim
  • Benjamin Vander Kooi
  • Eleanor C. Winston
  • Warren J. Zaccaro

Honorary council

  • Lowell C. Anderson
  • Marvin R. Anderson
  • Nina M. Archabal+
  • Charles W. Arnason+
  • Annette Atkins+
  • Sharon Avent+
  • Bruce W. Bean+
  • Gretchen U. Beito+
  • Ford W. Bell
  • S. K. Dash
  • Mark Davis+
  • Charlton Dietz+
  • Elizabeth S. Driscoll
  • Dennis Dvorak
  • Richard L. Ferrell
  • Michael J. Fox

  • Ram Gada+
  • Phyllis Rawls Goff+
  • Karen A. Humphrey+
  • John Huss
  • Ruth Huss+
  • Lucy R. Jones+
  • Sylvia Kaplan+
  • Colles Larkin
  • Robert C. Mack
  • Elizabeth S. MacMillan+
  • Terry McGibbon
  • Peg Meier
  • William C. Melton+
  • Joseph S. Micallef+
  • Richard Moe
  • Stephen Nelson
  • Larry G. Osnes
  • Donald G. Patton
  • Fred Perez
  • Mark Peterson
  • Kennon V. Rothchild+
  • Ramedo J. Saucedo
  • Jeff Savage
  • Barbara W. Sommer
  • William R. Stoeri+
  • Gerald Vizenor
  • Vernell Wabasha
  • Jeanette E. Warner
  • Annette M. Whaley
  • Mary Lethert Wingerd

    + Emeritus and Honorary
    Council Member