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Photos of Geri Joseph from various points in her public life. The Humphrey School of Public Affairs is mourning the loss of Geri Joseph, former ambassador, political activist, and community leader, who died this week at the age of 100. Among her many accomplishments, Joseph was a senior fellow at the Humphrey School for 10 years, and co-founded the School’s highly regarded Policy Fellows program. Described as a trailblazer, Joseph was one of the first women editors of the University of Minnesota’s newspaper, the Minnesota Daily, in the 1940s. She was an award-winning reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune for seven years before becoming active in Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party politics. Joseph worked on one of Hubert Humphrey’s early campaigns, and served as vice chair of the Minnesota DFL and vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee in the 1960s and ‘70s.. In 1978, President Carter appointed Joseph ambassador to the Netherlands, where she served until 1981. Hum ....

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