Doug Mann has been involved in struggles for social justice for over 40 years: A partisan of the Civil Rights movement at an early age, then the anti-Vietnam War movement, then as an activist in the labor and socialist movements.
Mann served as a union steward, griever, and union bargaining committee delegate while a member of the UFCW nursing home division in the 1970s, converted an informal gathering of nursing home workers in Huntsville, Alabama into a union organizing meeting in 1984, participated in a clandestine union organizing committee at Walker Methodist Health Center in 1992, and published a memoir, Diary of a nursing home agitator, in 1997.
Doug Mann began to focus on the struggle against systemic racial discrimination in the Minneapolis Public Schools in 1997, when he joined the NAACP. Mann was a plaintiff in the NAACP's educational adequacy lawsuit against the state of MN in 1998-1999, and served on education advocacy committees of the Minneapolis Branch and Minnesota State conference of the NAACP, and the Minneapolis NAACP branch executive committee.
Mann co-founded the Minneapolis Parents Union, an education advocacy group in 1998, along with Evelyn Eubanks, Barbara Koch-Smith, and others, and served on its board of directors until the group dissolved in 2001. Parents Union members stood for election to the Minneapolis School Board in 2001. Evelyn Eubanks won a spot on the general election ballot in 2001. Doug Mann advanced to the general election ballot in citywide contests for school board in 2002, 2006, 2008, and 2012.
Doug Mann is employed as a Licensed Practical Nurse, working at a group home for disabled clients, mostly Vent-dependent, for the past 2 years. Mann, a licensed nurse since 1991 has more than 12 years experience as a charge nurse and team leader in nursing homes, board and care facilities, and Transitional Care Units.
Education:
Associate in Arts degree
Practical Nursing Diploma
Legal Nurse Consultant certification
All of the above from Minneapolis Community and Technical College.
Languages: French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
First year courses in German and Spanish at the U of MN
Completed intermediate level, second year college French courses at MCTC
Two years of Swedish courses through the American Swedish Institute
Greek and Italian through home study courses
Volunteer English as a Second Language tutor and classroom assistant,
Adult Basic Education, Minneapolis Public Schools, for 12 months / 4 quarters, Dec. 2009-Dec. 2010
Occasional freelance news writer 1998 to 2003, primarily with Pulse of the Twin Cities and Minnesota Spokesman Recorder. A participant in the Minneapolis Issues Forum for the past 12 years.
Paralegal experience: Legal and medical research, case analysis, writing, testifying as an expert witness, etc., working with his wife, Linda Mann, when she had a private law practice during the 1990s.
Writings by Doug Mann include:
Flight from Equality: School Reform in the US since 1983 (1999)
The Fight Against Urban Cleansing & Gentrification in Minneapolis (1999)
Diary of a nursing home agitator (1997)
Web sites:
Mann for School Board (last updated 2005)
Doug Mann LNC (not updated in several years)
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