{"id":11538,"date":"2024-08-22T20:56:22","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T20:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11538"},"modified":"2024-08-23T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T15:52:41","slug":"president-pribbenow-provost-oloughlin-interviewed-by-cnn-about-gwen-walz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2024\/08\/22\/president-pribbenow-provost-oloughlin-interviewed-by-cnn-about-gwen-walz\/","title":{"rendered":"President Pribbenow, Provost O\u2019Loughlin Interviewed by CNN About Gwen Walz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CNN<\/a>Â̲èÖ±²¥ President Paul Pribbenow and Provost Paula O\u2019Loughlin spoke to national media this week about Minnesota First Lady Gwen Walz\u2019s work at Augsburg. Both were interviewed for a CNN feature about Minnesota\u2019s First Lady in the lead-up to the 2024 Democratic National Convention, where Governor Tim Walz accepted the Democratic nomination for vice president Wednesday night.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Read: <\/span>Gwen Walz and Tim Walz are known as a team. But Minnesota\u2019s first lady has been a powerful force in her own right<\/span><\/a> (CNN)<\/span><\/p>\n

Gwen Walz has <\/span>held appointments<\/span><\/a> at Augsburg as an instructor of education and a special assistant for strategic partnerships in the Office of the President since 2019. \u201c[W]hat she will say all the time, is, \u2018I\u2019ll make it happen,\u2019\u201d said O\u2019Loughlin. \u201cShe\u2019s very cognizant of how things affect other people all the time.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, Pribbenow appeared on CNN live to discuss Walz\u2019s background, commitments, and connections to Augsburg.<\/span><\/p>\n