Shawna Stoltenberg

Shawna Stoltenberg

Shawna Stoltenberg was Miss Minnesota 1993 and competed in the Miss America pageant broadcast live from Atlantic City, New Jersey in September that year. She won an award for talent in the nationally-televised event and earned enough scholarship money to graduate from college debt free. She was also the first contestant in the history of the pageant to address the issue of missing children and to share Jacob’s story of HOPE. [cite web
last = Noran
first = Rebecca
title =Shawna Stoltenberg: Student commencement speaker and Miss America contestant (And, yes, it really is for the scholarships)
publisher = University of Minnesota
date =Spring 2005
url =http://education.umn.edu/alumni/link/2005Spring/Alum-Stoltenberg.html | accessdate = 2006-12-11
] Stoltenberg specializes in corporate talent development having most recently worked for Ameriprise, Allianz Life of North America, Target Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She has more than 10 years of experience as a strategic change consultant, corporate trainer, facilitator, performance coach and former television news anchor.

Stoltenberg is also a speaker, trainer and former board member for the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, a missing children's organization in Minnesota that works nationally to end the sexual exploitation and abduction of children. She has delivered presentations to more than 10,000 students, parents and community organizations on how to keep children safe.

Stoltenberg has studied piano for more than 20 years. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison with Bachelor degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Piano Performance. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities in Human Resource and Organizational Development. In 2000, she married husband & photographer, Bjorn Meisner, from Oldenburg, Germany.

References

http://education.umn.edu/alumni/link/2005Spring/Alum-Stoltenberg.html Shawna Stoltenberg: Student commencement speaker and Miss America contestant

External links

* [http://missminnesotaalumni.com/MissMNatMissA.html Miss Minnesota Alumni]


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