Laura Waterman Wittstock

Laura Waterman Wittstock is president and CEO of Wittstock & Associates, a media and education consulting firm. A former journalist, Waterman Wittstock is the author of several publications, including Diverse Populations/Diverse Needs: Community Foundations and Diversity and Changing Communities and Ininatig's Gift of Sugar: Traditional Native Sugar Making. She was an elected member and president of the Minneapolis Library Board, where she worked on the development and realization of the new Central Library. She served as the fourth Louis W. Hill, Jr. Fellow in Philanthropy at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Wittstock is the recipient of several leadership and professional awards, including the 2006 Distinguished IEL Service Award, the Institute for Educational Leadership national award for improvement of American education, the American Indian Honored Educator of 2005, the Human Rights Award from the Minnesota Lawyers International Human Rights Committee, and the National Headliner Award for outstanding documentary by a network, for Coming from America, for which she served as executive producer.