2018 – The Year in Review

In 2018…

• We had three stories appear in the Star Tribune.
• Marnita appeared on WCCO Radio and gave her first Ted Talk at TedX Mahtomedi.
• We launched our playful new podcast series From A to 10.
• We can no longer count the number of people who have have hosted IZIs on their own, and we’ve now trained more than 2,700 people in the IZI model.
• We trained the United Way of Steele County to be IZI master trainers, joining Suburban Ramsey as a center for IZI in our state.
• We delivered 3 Tea at the Table sessions to introduce new community members to IZI.
• We welcomed over 8,000 people throughout the country to IZIs.
• We wrapped up work with the United Way of Steele County and the Live, Learn, Earn Initiative of Scott County.
• We began a series of IZIs with Carver County Public Health and the Best Buy Diversity and Inclusion Team.
• We continued our relationship with the Catalyst Initiative as their ongoing convener-of-choice.
• We began a partnership with Mitchell Hamline College of Law.
• Event Co-Chairs Sam Goldstein and Perran Wentzel successfully led a team to deliver the most financially successful Start the Conversation fundraiser in our history!
• We also began to build the resources and connections necessary to deliver Rapid Response pop-up IZIs from coast to coast.

Marnita's Table is a 501(c)3. Our 18-year old organization seeks to close gaps across difference through making Intentional Social Interaction (“IZI") / Digital Intentional Social Interaction (“dIZI”) the new pattern for society where Indigenous; Black and brown people; the disenfranchised; the poor; the LGBTQ+; those from historically and currently pushed to the margins communities; the traditionally unheard and excluded are actively and intentionally included and valued at the policy-making and resource-sharing table.