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Answering the Call

At age 39, Sue (Peterson) Koesterman ’03 (philosophy) cashed in her 401K, quit her job, changed her family lifestyle, and began on her journey to answer her calling.

Extraordinary Service

MSUM alumni serve where they’re called—across the globe and in their own backyards.

Unseen

Unseen is dedicated to thwarting human trafficking and impacts lives around the world by partnering with organizations that directly rescue victims from the clutches of forced services and despair.

Transforming Students

MSUM professors Dr. Mary Dosch and Dr. David Paul guided 12 MSUM students, all women, on a service learning trip to the Dominican Republic to work with young girls at the Mariposa Foundation.

Heart of Dragons

Grit. Humility. Heart. These are the defining characteristics of the students who pass through our front gates and triumph in their entrepreneurial endeavors.

The Lighthouse

Dale Wolf ’85 (history) and Beth (Grabinger) Wolf ’84 (speech language hearing sciences) and ’85 (speech language pathology & audiology) are partners in life and in work.

Humble Servant

Beth (Grabinger) Wolf ’84 and ’85 is not only an entrepreneur with her husband, Pastor Dale Wolf ’85, co-founders of Lighthouse Church, she is also an entrepreneur in her own right—as a self-employed speech therapist for the past 16 years.

World Class Entrepreneurs

MSUM Business Professors Ben Clapp and James Swenson theorize that while starting a business practice at a young age is a key indicator to future success, the trigger lies within one’s genetics.

Creating Entrepreneurs

MSUM’s vigorous academic focus on entrepreneurship intends to subtly inform and shift how students think about work, social innovation, marketing, finance, life.

Phantom Storyteller

For Danielle Nadler ’05 (mass communications), recounting the life of one man became more than a new project; it became a calling.

What is Your Story?

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." – Maya Angelou

We Can Do Better

It started when Katherine Young ’09 (BFA graphic design) saw a Facebook post comparing the covers of the September 2016 Girls’ Life and Boys’ Life magazines, demonstrating the differences of what is communicated to young tween boys and girls via the media.