No concurrent breakout sessions that do not repeat

Don’t serve meals so you can charge less

We need to expand participants, we need to include more businessmen, attorneys, legislators, and other policy makers (e.g. city councils, etc.)

Too much food at supper/breaks.  Lets save some money in this area

It would be nice not to have an evening meal and charge less for the conference

Microphones either separated poorly and or were not used properly.  Speakers did not project

How were student volunteers scheduled, didn’t see much of them attending sessions. Push for more students/youth involvement, would be great marketing

Should have a participant list to aid in networking

List of conference participant contact information to network more easily

Speakers that have overcome issues or getting ahead

More discussion of the conservative movement, that is why/who we are up against

What present administration (governor, etc.) is doing to promote human rights, and what they are doing to stifle human rights coalition goals

Present statistics (once you have a longer time in existence) about cases and resolutions and what agencies did better jobs of resolutions

Share cultural diversity events that have served to involve the larger community/schools, etc. and how well they succeeded in moving opinions

Social event on the first evening

Have each participant from this year have a “special invite” with scholarships to bring a special guest (legislators, attorneys, etc.) to next years conference.  Have participants give invites and personally check in with these people to make sure they attend.  People who bring a new person get registered for a prize.  Those who bring 2 new people are registered for a bigger prize

Develop special personalized invites to people outside the “choir” to attend

Have an action oriented session to brainstorm a topic and then form statewide task groups to work together on a project

Perhaps we can go to Grand Forks next in continuing to build statewide membership and awareness

Ask Elmer Four Dance to speak again at a future conference

My comments are forwarded on the basis that I optimistically believe that more HR commissions will be formed and they will need to share best practices

As a resident of MN, I wasn’t aware of all the things going on in ND, so things weren’t always clear.  Perhaps more explanation about current events would be helpful.

Get speaker and presenters that are not racist.  Some of the people at this meeting today are not open-minded (e.g. Tex Hall, some of the natives).  These people have issues.  These issues are 3-4-5 hundred years old.  My family has been in America less than 1 hundred years ago.  During one of the breaks, I was talking to Phillip Standing Crow.  What is that guys problem.  He just stood there and would not talk.  What is his disability?  D. Joyce, what are her problems.  D. Joyce went on and on and on, never making a point

The state, city, and county don’t communicate together in the disability field.  What is it going to take to get that through your heads.  You think the Indian are discriminated against, so are people with disabilities

Hear more from Chris Runge and Don Morrison on living wage and right to work

Bill Patrie gave an excellent speech, it really motivated me

Tex Hall was also an excellent speaker, it’s nice to have him on our side

I really enjoyed Bill Patrie, he was a dynamic speaker, very passionate about his goals.  Tex Hall was excellent.  It was interesting to hear even after the discouraging election results that many of the progressive thinkers are still keeping an optimistic outlook

My favorite talk was the one by Bill Patrie

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