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​WOMEN OF INFLUENCE 2020

(Formerly called "Women in Politics")

"Waging Peace: One Soldier's Story of Putting Love First"

Thursday, February 13, 2020

6:00 - 7:30 pm


The George Morrison Room, at the Depot 
506 W. Michigan Street, Duluth, MN  55802


Light refreshments will be served.
If you are in need of transportation, call Sandy Grandmaison (218-348-7589) or Gwen Thorson (218-624-4756).


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​Featured Speaker: Diana Oestreich
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Diana Oestreich is no stranger to pain and the reality that our world desperately needs to be remade. As a former Iraq War Army Combat Medic and a sexual assault nurse examiner, Diana has committed her life to staring pain in the face and choosing to love anyway, to lean in, and to remake the world around her. Speaking across the country for Preemptive Love Coalition, a relief organization based in Iraq, she empowers us to identify our own rural, urban, political or religious divides to cross our own "enemy lines" in order to remake the world and heal all that is tearing us apart. As a soldier turned peacemaker, she has appeared on multiple podcasts and blogs, discussing justice, faith, peacemaking, refugees, activism with kids, and how her posture of love shapes how she parents and shows up for her neighbors. 

​Diana, her partner Jake, and their two sons, Bridger and Zelalem live along the shores of Lake Superior on Ojibwe land. They are an Ethiopian-American family woven together through adoption and a shared love for bad jokes and competitive card games.