Former member of the Bemidji Parks and Recreation Commission, 2002 Green Party candidate for Beltrami County Board, 2004 candidate for Bemidji City Council, MN

Available to speak on the following subjects:
Civil Liberties
Criminal Justice
Peace / Non-Violence
Racial Justice
Political Organizing

Bio
Audrey Thayer has been a Green Party member since 1996. She was the 2002 Green Party candidate for the Beltrami County Board and 2004 candidate for Bemidji City Council, where she lost by only 25 votes. She has been appointed twice to the City of Bemidji Parks and Recreation Commission, recently stepping down to move back to her reservation. Thayer is Anishinabe from the White Earth Band of Ojibwe's in Northern Minnesota.

Thayer has worked as a community organizer in Bemidji in racial, social and peace issues in Northern Minnesota with the Red Lake, White Earth and Leech Lake reservations and is an enrolled member of the White Earth Reservation. She works with the ACLU in Minnesota as part of the Greater Minnesota Racial Justice Project. She teaches as an adjunct professor at Bemidji State University. Thayer is on the board of directors of the Green Institute. She has sat on the executive board for the last five years on the Northwood's Coalition of Battered Woman, and five years on the Anishinabe Region Two Arts Board, She is chairperson of the Bemidji Indian Center Planning Committee. Thayer is the mother of five living children and nine grandchildren.

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