About the Speaker
Jennings Mergenthal is a recent graduate of Macalester College, a puppet enthusiast, and a former student organizer for Proud Indigenous Peoples for Education. During summer 2021, Jennings Mergenthal helped historically contextualize the Lake Street Truth and Repair conversations. They have done equity-centered history and science communication projects at the Metropolitan Council, the East Side Freedom Library, and currently at the Science Museum of Minnesota, and have also been known to occasionally do puppet shows.