| 2006 HILL FELLOW, LAURA WATERMAN WITTSTOCK
 Laura Waterman Wittstock is president and CEO of Wittstock & Associates, a media and education consulting firm, and founder and longtime leader of MIGIZI Communications. She served as president of the Minneapolis Library Board, where she worked with others on the development and realization of the new Minneapolis Central Library. Waterman Wittstock has served on the boards of numerous nonprofit organizations and currently sits on the boards of the Greater Metropolitan Housing Corporation (GMHC), Southeast Asian Refugee Community Home (SEARCH), the Minnesota Planetarium Society, Baby's Space, and Change, Inc.
A former journalist, Waterman Wittstock is the author of several publications, including Diverse Populations/Diverse Needs: Community Foundations and Diversity and Changing Communities, Changing Foundations: The Story of the Diversity Efforts for 20 Community Foundations.
She is the recipient of several leadership and professional awards, including the Distinguished IEL Service Award from the Institute for Educational Leadership, the Finnegan Freedom of Information Award for Minnesota, a Human Rights Award from the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee, and a Twin Citian Volunteer Hall of Fame citation from Mpls/St. Paul magazine.
Upon the announcement, Humphrey Institute Dean J. Brian Atwood said, "Laura Waterman Wittstock is a strong leader in our community. She has played a key role in helping to educate and sensitize community foundations-here and across the country- about diversity issues, strengthening the impact philanthropic organizations can make. Her interest in focusing attention on Native American philanthropy and giving patterns in communities that are different from American and European models will provide an interesting and distinctive perspective on philanthropy."
To download a copy of the paper written by the 2006 Hill Fellow, click on the paper: "AMERICAN INDIAN GIVING AND PHILANTHROPY: The Overlaid Relationship".
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