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Cheryl Reitan
Cheryl Reitan is a community relations, public relations, and marketing expert the current Associate Director for External Affairs at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is the co-author of Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi.

Biography
Cheryl has been creating persuasive public relations and marketing campaigns for academic institutions since the mid-1980s. She has done work for multi-million dollar companies, the President of Finland, former Vice President Walter Mondale, and celebrity Garrison Keillor.

In 1991, Cheryl launched a publicity campaign for 150 orphans in Ukraine who were left without food or heat when the Soviet Union collapsed. She joined the world relief team as the public relations expert and secured a spot on the front page of U.S.A. Today, and stories in the Milwaukee Journal and the Chicago Tribune. The publicity ensured the children received the care they needed.

In 2008, Cheryl worked with a 1960s' era Mississippi civil rights worker, Sue Sojourner, to write her memoir, Thunder of Freedom. It was published in January 2013 by the University Press of Kentucky.