Linda is proud to be hired by FILO Productions Inc. as the new Director of Festivals. She brings many years of large scale event planning to her position at FILO. Her primary duties will be Directing GermanFest, held at the historic Schmidt Brewery site in St. Paul and assisting in the management of a 1-day Jewish heritage festival, held in Boston, MA. Her goal is to make FILO a household name.
Her passion for events started early, as she was raised in a family that organized the Festival of Nations, a heritage festival celebrating thousands of Nations across the world in Minnesota. She was hired as the Festival of Nations Education Outreach Coordinator. This position had her working with over three hundred schools from the five state region and the over twenty thousand school teachers and children that attended the event for two days. She was hired as the Director of the Festival of Nations in 2013 and successfully produced the 2014 event.
She was approached by the Italian community and asked to create and Direct Minnesota’s first authentic Italian Festival. She worked for over a year with a core team of individuals to bring about the successful production of Festa Italiana MN held on Harriet Island in St. Paul. She successfully produced two Festas’ and now she is again working with the core team to manage the event through FILO. This event was Linda’s proudest moment in her Directing career.
Linda also produces an Oktoberfest for her church, St. James Lutheran Church, in West St. Paul.
Linda is married to David and they have two children: Emma Rose, who is a freshman at the University of North Dakota and a son Theodore, who is a Freshman at Minnetonka High School. Their third child is their dog GoGo. They live in Minnetonka.
To relax she plays cello in the Mississippi Valley Orchestra which she has played in for 30 years. She also loves to travel and has been to many countries including Germany, where she has family.
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