I thought if anyone need a leg up, it was our foster children. So, I started getting involved in education reform, and that was back in 1998. And as a result of all the reform work that I had done, people urged me to run for the Minnesota state Senate. I did, I was there for six years.
| Buchi Emecheta, Novelist (1944) |
| John Gardner, Novelist (1933) |
| Josh Hartnett, Actor (1978) |
| Norman Jewison, Director (1926) |
| John B. Keane, Playwright (1928) |
| Ali Landry, Model (1973) |
| John Cotton Dana, Author (1929) |
| Ruth St. Denis, Dancer (1968) |
| Robert Green Ingersoll, Lawyer (1899) |

