Our Team
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Susan is a creative and innovative change agent who works with leaders to crystallize, scope, and execute emerging business strategies. She specializes in bringing disparate groups and individuals together to deliver outstanding results.
Anahita is an award winning Event Correspondent & On-Air Host who shines through the camera and on stage with her wit and charm.
Courtney is the Director of Development at Voyageur Outward Bound School (VOBS). She has over 10 years of experience in fundraising, marketing, design and creative problem solving.
Danami is a Brand Strategist that helps businesses break through the noise and engage their audience. He is also a Soul/Hip-Hop artist that educate & encourage men to live their best lives for Jesus and their families.
Narate Keys is a Cambodian American poet and spoken word artist living in Saint Paul. She has self-published The Changes . . . Immigration Footprints of Our Journey and The Good Life and co-authored Planting SEADs: Southeast Asian Diaspora Stories. Keys’ family lived through the Khmer Rouge genocide; she was born in a Thailand refugee camp. Through poetry Keys has found love, appreciation, and encouragement. Keys performs her poems at various Minnesota venues, including the Loft Literary Center, Springboard for the Arts, Dragon Festival, and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet Theatre’s MayDay Festival. Learn more at NarateKeys.com
Randi is a connection maker, friend helper, dog lover, public transportation taker, food eater, travel dreamer, show streamer, book learner, perfect ballet flat searcher. She's also a Recruiter at GoKart Labs- you looking for a job?
Ruth has extensive experience in supply chain management. Her career has focused on product line development, operational efficiencies, and sustainability implementations. Her work applies a deep understanding of imports, exports, negotiation strategies, and relationship management in global business environments.
Tio Aiken has been a proud contributing member of the Giant Steps team since 2011.
She is currently the Vice President of Communications for Artspace Projects Inc., a national nonprofit real-estate company whose mission is to create, foster and preserve affordable space for artists and arts organizations. Recruited to Artspace in 2016 as the Communications Manager, Aiken has slowly shifted the Artspace brand to focus on multi-format storytelling with a deep desire to highlight the intersectionality of Artspace's diverse residential communities and partnerships nationwide. Aiken is also the Program Director for the Rafala Green Fellowship program, a two-year fellowship that promotes equity and inclusion in non-profit real-estate by training the next generation of POCI emerging leaders working at the intersection of arts, real estate, and community development, funded by the Ford Foundation.
She is a practicing poet, a writer, a room "diviner", and a champion of anyone using their creative expression to make space in the world for positive change. She also sits on the Board of Directors for the Twin Cities Jazzfest.