Board Of Directors

Kathy Tunheim is President and CEO, Tunheim Partners, one of Minnesota’s largest public relations agencies. Prior to founding the Tunheim Santrizos Company (now Tunheim Partners) in 1990, Tunheim was Vice President of Corporate Communications and Internal Communications at Honeywell. She serves as a board trustee for the for the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota, for the Bush Foundation, for the Science Museum of Minnesota, , and for the Luther Institute in Washington, D.C. She also serves as director for The White House Project National Advisory Board. Tunheim is a member of the Itasca Project and co-chair of the Great North Alliance, both regional civic groups focused on economic vitality and competitiveness.

Mary Stucky is a co-founder of Round Earth Productions and president of the company. Mary covers social and cultural issues, foreign affairs, public policy, the environment and immigration with a focus on Latin America. Her reports reach a national audience on public and non-public radio, TV and the Web. Stucky has produced national radio reports on immigration and racial disparities as well as a documentary for Minnesota Public Radio, a profile of "Maria", a Mexican immigrant and her family. Her reporting awards include the New York Festival’s Gold WorldMedal. She was a contributing producer to the documentary series "Crossing East," which won a 2006 Peabody Award, broadcasting's highest honor. For 13 years, Stucky was a reporter/anchor for the NBC-TV affiliate in Minneapolis. She is a graduate of Carleton College.

Mary Losure, co-founder of Round Earth Productions, has reported extensively on the environment and sustainable agriculture as a former staff reporter for Minnesota Public Radio and contributor to National Public Radio. She has also written magazine articles, radio documentaries, and radio series on subjects as diverse as Tibetan, Somali, and Finnish immigrants; the spread of Pentecostal religion and speaking in tongues; and the history of the birth control movement. Among her current projects is a children’s non-fiction biography of Victor of Aveyron, a feral child. In 2003-2004, Losure was a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellow in International Reporting at the University of Michigan. She has won numerous awards, including a National Headliner Award for her reporting on industrialized agriculture.