Image Faculty Title Interim Director of MA Creative Leadership Education MA, University of Wisconsin–Superior BA, University of Minnesota–Duluth Kami has held a lifelong fascination with the intersection of art, science, and leadership. A trailblazing advocate for creative leadership and mental well-being, Kami began her career as an outpatient psychotherapist specializing in art therapy, the healing power of creativity, and mind-body medicine. She holds a master’s degree in art therapy, is a registered art therapist, and has earned a mind-body medicine certification from Harvard Medical School. She later moved on to federal healthcare administration, where she spent twelve years traveling across the United States conducting community-based research, facilitating strategic planning sessions with medical institutions, government agencies, and marginalized communities, and developing multiple local, state, and national well-being initiatives and policies. As CEO of Integrative Re-Sources, LLC, co-founder of the Global Elevate Compassion Coalition, and co-founder of Journey Guide Project, LLC, Kami’s leadership on transformational change initiatives resonates globally. She has an expansive history of developing and leading transformational initiatives that strengthen well-being individually, in workplaces, and across communities nationally and internationally. Kami has keynoted or spoken on many professional stages in Colombia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, Ghana, Nigeria, Morocco, and throughout the United States. Kami has sat on the boards of Duluth Art Institute, Duluth Art Works, College of St. Scholastica’s Physician Assistant, U of MN-Duluth Medical School Rural Mental Health, U of MN Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and MN Department of Health Resiliency Learning Collaborative. She has served on the governor-appointed health advisory council of Minnesota for eight years developing the “Health in All Policies” initiative that gained national recognition. In addition, she became a trusted advisor for a Minnesota senator on rural and community-based health. Kami has lectured and facilitated with several academic institutions, including U of MN Carlson School of Business, U of MN Doctorate of Nurse Practitioner program, U of MN Duluth Medical School, College of Saint Scholastica, Mankato State University, Glenn Taylor Institute, University of Ibn-Zohr (Agadir, Morocco), ENCG Dakhla (Western Sahara), Praxis Center, multiple government agencies, networks, and more. Recently, Kami began teaching in the Creative Entrepreneurship program at MCAD, teaching Innovation and Progress, Biosystems, and Valued Workplaces. Kami coordinated her Biosystems class students to develop a “Facilitator’s Guide for Leading Immersive Arts Experiences around Northern Indigenous Food Sovereignty & Security” in Canada. This Facilitator’s Guide received funding from the Canadian government to implement across five Chambers of Commerce, and was selected to be presented at the Arctic Congress 2024 in Bodo, Norway co-presented by MCAD undergraduate students.