Kristin Eggerling
Marketing and Promotions Specialist, Northwest Minnesota Arts Council (Hallock, Minnesota)
Session: Creative Marketing Strategies and Tools: A Smörgåsbord! (Saturday 9 – 10:15am)
Kristin Eggerling works as a marketing and promotions specialist at the Northwest Minnesota Arts Council, freelance writer, and Communications and Digital Media Coordinator for C&M Ford. She is a published author of Breath of Wilderness: The Life of Sigurd Olson, a children’s book about wilderness advocate and writer Sigurd Olson. Kristin serves on the Minnesota Citizens for the Arts, Northwest Minnesota Foundation, Conservation Minnesota, the North Dakota Museum of Art Boards of Directors, the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, and as the chair of her local library board. She is also involved in economic development activities in her small town with a focus on promoting arts and natural resources. Kristin holds a B.A. in sociology from Augsburg College and an M.A. in sociology from the University of Manitoba. Kristin is passionate about the arts, preserving wild places, sustainability, travel, and politics. She lives with her husband in Hallock.