Grace Brandt

A home-grown Mankato musician, Kaleb Braun-Schulz has already recorded one album and has a new single, releasing on May 15

Davori Production's Mankato Playhouse is providing dinner theater to the Greater Mankato Area

Laura Doyen started Design and Wine in North Mankato to encourage creativity as well as to help groups and organizations with a great team-building activity.

MSU, Mankato grad student Jonathan Trzepkowski pioneered MSU's Explore Adventure STEM summer camp to inspire elementary students.

Dan Lee loves adventure but he also loves helping others find their adventures too. After recently climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, he's moving on to the Cotopaxi Volcano in Ecuador but it's always for a cause!

MSU Mankato Exchange Student, Poona Malavath had a mantra, "I will not give up untill I succeed." Succeed she has! The native of India has climed six of the Seven Summits and plans to tackle the seventh in 2020!

The Mankato Poetry Walk and Ride contributes to the growing arts culture scene of the Greater Mankato Area by offering exposure to the work of many Minnesota poets at strategic locations.

Ciana Ni Churraoin, a native of Ireland and a graduate student at MSU Mankato plays on the MSU handball team and also happens to be ranked at the No. 2 female handball player in the world!

Although not yet old enough to drive, Sydney Johnson of Mankato has started Le Luxe De Sydney, a business that produces the bath bombs that she and her family innovated!

S.S. Boutique is both a not-for-profit business and a thrift store with the mission of getting clothing in the hands of the people who most need it.