Kristi Rendahl

Kristi Rendahl is associate professor and director of the nonprofit leadership program at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Prior to starting with MSU in 2017, she worked for over 20 years with nongovernmental organizations on several continents, including living in Armenia from 1997-2002. She speaks Armenian and Spanish.
Reflections

Using Armenian Professionally

Sometimes we’re asked a question and only later do we wish we had paused and been more thoughtful in our…

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Reflections

My Dad

Editor’s Note: The following is the eulogy offered by Kristi Rendahl at the April 9 funeral for her beloved father,…

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New Year’s Resolution: Humility

Special for the Armenian Weekly During a time when it seems no one can say the right thing because it…

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Rendahl: The Shame of Difference

Special for the Armenian Weekly Armenia has been in the social media spotlight recently. According to a New Zealand man…

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Rendahl: Pit Stops and Acts of Kindness

Special for the Armenian Weekly I left Tbilisi by car after work on a Friday last month. I’d been traveling…

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Rendahl: I’m Still Here

Special for the Armenian Weekly A lesser-known fact about me is that I’ve played piano in church off and on…

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Rendahl: What Time Is It?

“There’s an Armenian here,” my former professor’s wife texted me from a dinner party in Fargo, N.D., a couple of…

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Rendahl: Patterns

I was in Ecuador in March. My days were filled with meetings conducted in Spanish. The information was new, the…

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Rendahl: On the Road

There were two girls walking along the Interstate as I made my way back to Minneapolis from western North Dakota…

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Rendahl: ‘Why Should I Care about Being Armenian?’

Special for The Armenian Weekly “The people here today obviously care about Armenia,” an attendee said to us, speakers at…

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