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| Affiliation | Green |
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| Name | Jesse Mortenson |
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St. Paul, Minnesota , United States |
| Email | jessemortenson@mngreens.org |
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| Contributor | The Oncoming Storm |
| Last Modifed | The Oncoming Storm
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| Info | Jesse Mortenson served as the MN Green Party's Finance Chair. He was in charge of the following areas treasurer, budget, and fundraising.
Small business owner
* Co-founded web design and programming company IDC WebDev in 2001. IDC WebDev continues to be a successful provider of internet services to local businesses, non-profits, and governmental institutions.
* Involved in the Open Source community. IDC WebDev uses and provides testing and feedback for several free, open source software projects that serve grassroots advocacy groups (Civicspace and CiviCRM).
Community activist
* Coordinating volunteer, Midway Citizen Consumer Community Coalition (MC4). MC4 successfully gathered support from community groups and elected officials to demand higher labor, design, and manufacturing standards from the Wal-Mart store that was moving into the Midway neighborhood. Although Wal-Mart refused to meet with the group, we contributed early seeds to the growing St. Paul movement that is working for policies that support local business over national chains.
* Chair, Small is Beautiful (SIB) Committee of the Green Party of St. Paul. Meeting at Cahoots every Thursday at 5 p.m., our small group has incubated the Good Business Campaign, which is an effort to call attention to how local businesses, community-led development, and living wage jobs are critical for long term economic sustainability. Specifically, SIB has developed the proposal to establish a city-wide cap on the size of retail stores to keep out the "worst of the worst" big-box retail stores.
* Founding member, Metro Independent Business Alliance. Jesse canvassed businesses, contributed to bylaws, and donated web design and hosting in order to get MetroIBA off the ground. IDC WebDev continues to donate internet services to MetroIBA.
* Co-organizer, Sustainable St. Paul (SSP). SSP made sure that, after the 2005 primary election, both St. Paul mayoral candidates spoke on the record regarding issues about which progressives care.
* Member, State Board of Directors for the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), and co-author of the Fair and Clean Elections/Instant Runoff Voting proposal that was chosen by MPIRG activists to become the basis for the Taking Back Democracy campaign.
* Monthly volunteer, Hampden Park Co-op natural and organic foods store.
* Co-organizer of the Defend Need-Blind Admissions At Macalester campaign to maintain a higher standard of accessibility for students of working class and middle class backgrounds at Macalester College. One of the leading authors of the group's 46-page report (PDF file) to the community on the issue.
* Member, Campus Environmental Issues Committee, Macalester College. This committee researched and presented a proposal in order to establish a Director of Environmental Affairs position and re-established itself as a campus policy body during the time of Jesse's involvement.
* Elected representative, Macalester College Student Government. Successfully proposed and oversaw the passage of the Blue-Green Amendment, which codified social justice and environmental standards into the student constitution. Also successfully introduced Instant Runoff Voting into executive elections.
* Co-founder and frequent contributor, the Hegemon alternative student publication.
Committed to building the Green Party
* At-large member and Finances Chair of the Green Party of Minnesota Coordinating Committee.
Education and Writing
* Graduated in 2005, with recognition, in Sociology with a Media Studies minor at Macalester College.
* Published Identity Resistance and Market-based Political Culture at a Small Liberal Arts School in Human Architecture, Fall 2004/Spring 2005 issue.
* Published Crisis in the Campus Greens in Synthesis-Regeneration, Fall 2003 issue.
Minnesotan
* Born in St. Paul, grew up in Baytown Township (near Stillwater).
* Extended family on both sides grew up on St. Paul's East Side. His dad even grew up right next to Bruce Vento.
* Not that Mortenson (Mortenson construction).
* Local rock and hip-hop music fan (RIP Eclipse Records, Firefox Coffee Lounge, Coffee Shock...)
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