Bridget Beck Gothberg

Master of Arts, 1982

Bridget Beck Gothberg, organization development coordinator for the city of St. Louis Park, has had a long and distinguished career in community education. While serving successive appointments as community education director in the Cloquet, Buffalo and St. Louis Park public school districts, she served in a variety of regional and national leadership roles in community education. She has led Twin Cities-area and Minnesota community education associations and was president of the National Community Education Association. A leader in applying community education's principles of collaboration and inter-organizational cooperation, Gothberg has been a chair of the TwinWest Chamber Business-Education Partnership, chair of St. Louis Park's innovative Children First initiative and served on the city's housing authority. Her awards include fellowships from the Bush and Mott foundations.