Elyse Day
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While her interests span movie trivia to traveling (Namibia, South Africa, and even Scotland), her passion truly is history, having volunteered with Mill City Museum, the History Center, the MN Historical Society and the Jewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest.
In her studies, Elyse has seen that historians have excluded groups (women, African Americans, the poor, etc.) and that including these groups histories to the bigger picture helps us better see events and time periods. That is why Elyse is eager to help this project because she sees the importance of collecting the Bhutanese refugees’ stories. Though a small group in our state, they are still a part of Minnesota’s history. |