About Dan

Hi Neighbors!- I am an experienced and successful organizer on environmental issues, political campaigns, union organizing, negotiating and representation. I have been deeply involved in our neighborhood and community for many years.I have experience at every level of government and understand how to accomplish big goals.

I love Minneapolis and our amazing Park System, this is home. Our water and overall park system needs all of us to push for ideals to be fully realized such as the Above the Falls/River First Plan, The Employer of Choice for all workers, Core Union Values being kept to including quality work for all public servants.

We are the land of 10,000 lakes with many of them right here in our city. Our Lakes, River and streams are under threat from point and non point source pollution, a rapidly changing climate, development and more.

Our city has major issues with racial disparities far greater than the number of lakes in this land full of them. Many of our neighbors don’t have the same agency, access or opportunity to power and resources- the difference in access and opportunity to all of our parks is vast.

My job as a Senior Business Agent with the Minnesota Association of Professional Employees provides me with a skillset and connections that will serve our Park Board well.

I respectfully acknowledge the sacred land upon which the Minneapolis Parks System is on. This is the traditional homeland of the Dakhóta Oyáte (Dakota People), unfairly ceded in the Treaties of 1837 & 1851, who stewarded it for millennia. The Ojibwe and other Indigenous nations have cared for this land as well. Minnesota comes from the Dakota name for the area, Mni Sota Makoce — "the land where the waters reflect the skies."

Learn more about the true legacy of this land, and to search out the wisdom and stories of the Dakota, Ojibwe, and other Native people still here.

We need to move from words to action- Land Back is an ideal to actualize.

We must live in deep community and connection to the Dakota people that were here before settlers came here and began to claim ownership over land. Public land is critical to our survival and our parks need to be the healthy third space for us as Human Beings and the rest of the flora and fauna that call our parks home.