Rachel is a Principal Architectural Historian with Hess, Roise and Company in Minneapolis. A fan of quirky buildings, Rachel has worked with a wide variety of properties including historic prisons, former convents, and lumberyards. She frequently works on historic tax-credit rehabilitation projects to reinvigorate historic buildings for new uses.

Rachel attended the College of Saint Benedict and graduated with a degree in History and Gender Studies. After graduation, Rachel moved to Vermont to pursue a Masters Degree in Historic Preservation from the University of Vermont. As part of that program, she also interned with the South Dakota State Historic Preservation Office.

Outside of historic preservation, Rachel enjoys hiking in state parks, reading mystery novels, and exploring new places.

Paige Mitchell was born and raised in Burlington, Iowa, a small town on the bank of the Mississippi River. In 2018, she received a Bachelor’s degree in History and Art History and a certificate in Museum Studies, from the University of Iowa. In the Spring of 2020, she graduated with her Master’s degree in Heritage Studies and Public History from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

During her time at the University of Minnesota, Mitchell was involved in numerous projects that emphasized social justice, community engagement, and public memory. She also further developed her interest in historic preservation and the built environment. Mitchell partnered with Dr. Brenda Child to write a critical history of the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation in St. Paul, led a project surrounding Indigenous food sovereignty for the Humanities Action Lab, and developed an exhibit for the Minnesota Historical Society, titled “#metoo in Minnesota History,” which won the National Council for Public History’s 2020 Student Project Award. She also partnered with Laura Leppink (Northern Bedrock Vice Chair) on a capstone project, and participated in one of Leppink’s famous window restoration classes. You can read more about her various projects here: https://sites.google.com/view/paigemitchellprofile/home.

Mitchell recently moved to the Kansas City metro area, and works as the Office and Events Coordinator for the Western History Association. In her free time, she enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, playing video games, drawing, and playing with her pet gerbil!

Mitchell hopes to get her PhD in the future, but is VERY happy to take a break for a few years and work with all of the wonderful people at Northern Bedrock!

Dylan grew up on a farm in the Southeast corner of Minnesota and has a degree in History from Viterbo University.  Following undergrad he pursued an interest in Environmental Conservation as an AmeriCorps member with Minnesota Conservation Corps in Bemidji, MN.  After completing his service term with CCMI he sought a similar experience in historic preservation and joined NBHPC as a Crew Leader in 2016. Dylan has always wanted to visit Redwood, Sequoia, Kings Canyon, and Yosemite National Parks in California. His favorite historical figure is Aldo Leopold, whose “Land Ethic” changed the role of humans from conqueror to citizen of the land-community. Dylan is now working towards his Masters in Education from the College of St. Scholastica with the intention of becoming a high school Social Studies teacher.  He currently lives in Duluth and works for the Educated Choices Program, a nonprofit organization that teaches students about healthy, sustainable, and ethical food choices.

In addition, Mr. Thompson teaches Federal Indian Law at the Leech Lake Tribal College and owns a legal practice that focuses on conservation transactions in the United States and Canada. Prior to his work with the Forest Service, Doug spent over 20 years representing clients and helping conservation interests finance projects and resolve complex natural resource matters throughout North America.

Doug received a bachelor’s degree in wildlife conservation from Louisiana Tech University, and a master’s degree in natural resource economics and rural sociology from Auburn University. He also holds a Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Syracuse University College of Law, and a Master of Laws in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers College of Law.  

Bio to come!

Ted Grevstad-Nordbrock is an associate professor in the Community & Regional Planning department, College of Design, Iowa State University, where he helped establish Preservation and Cultural Heritage degree programs. His teaching and research focus on historic preservation planning, policy, and administration, but he is also interested in the ethnic architecture traditions of the Upper Midwest. Prior to academia, he worked for over two decades in preservation and cultural resource management, including twelve years with the Michigan State Historic Preservation Office. He has degrees in architectural history (Wisconsin), historic preservation planning (Cornell), and urban/economic geography (Michigan State). In 2022, he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research with Oslo’s Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) in Oslo. Ted is originally from Chicagoland, but he spent ten years overseas with his Department of Defense family and nearly two decades in Wisconsin and Michigan. He and his family now live in Ames.

Bob Grytdahl is a life long Duluth resident, educated in the Duluth Public Schools and UMD. He and Dawn, his spouse, have three children. Bob was previously the Human Rights Officer for the City of Duluth and has since retired. The Mission of the Human Rights Office is to work with others to create a collectively defined vision of a community free of discrimination. Bob supports the Commissions on Human Rights and Disabilities. He was one of the community members that established the Human Rights Commission, one of the founders of the Clayton, Jackson, McGhie Memorial Inc, Member Arrowhead Regional Corrections Advisory Board, Voyagers Area Boy Scout Council, and the Southern St. Louis County Family Services Collaborative. Bob is a past board chair of the First Witness Child Abuse Resource Center, was president of the Duluth Police Union and served as Deputy Chief of the Duluth Police Department.