Tom Welna
Director

Tom Welna, Macalester class of 1986, directs The High Winds Fund. He is a former Deputy Mayor of Saint Paul and established Saint Paul's curbside recycling programs and community energy conservation programs as the founding Executive Director of the Neighborhood Energy Connection. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Saint Paul Smart Trips and the think-tank, Minnesota 2020. As Director of the High Winds Fund since 2002, he has focused his efforts on livability issues in the neighborhoods around campus.  Tom lives in the Merriam Park neighborhood with his wife and two daughters.

Gena Berglund
Associate Director

Gena Berglund is the Associate Director of the High Winds Fund. From 2005-2011 she represented her neighborhood on the board of the Macalester-Groveland Community Council. In 1984, she earned her B.A. from St. Olaf College. She added a law degree in 2005 from William Mitchell College of Law. She practiced law for six years and was an adjunct professor at St. Cloud State University. As a director and officer of the community council, Ms. Berglund worked closely with the High Winds staff to organize neighborhood support for the Snelling median pedestrian safety project. She has a particular interest in how we redevelop Saint Paul neighborhoods to reduce the need for cars and increase resources for walking, biking and transit.  Gena lives in downtown Saint Paul with her husband.

Stephen B. Wellington, Jr
Board Chair

Stephen chairs our board of directors.  He is founder and President of Wellington Management, Inc. (WMI). WMI is currently ranked as one of the top ten real estate developers in the Twin Cities area.  Between 1976 and 1984, Steve worked for the City of St. Paul. As a leading St. Paul development official, Steve was responsible for such major redevelopment projects as District Energy, Lowertown redevelopment and the establishment of the Family Housing Fund.  Steve has been an active community volunteer and civic leader. Steve served on the Metropolitan Council and was Chair of the Midway Chamber of Commerce in 2005. He has also served as a board member of YMCA Camp Widjiwagan, the St. Anthony Park Community Foundation, District Energy St. Paul and the St. Anthony Park Bank. He is currently co-chair of the Plymouth Church Neighborhood Foundation, a non-profit developer of affordable housing. He also currently serves as a board member of Drake Bank and as a board member of Regions Hospital. Steve is a Yale alumnus, but we don’t hold that against him.   He has three adult children and lives with his wife, Kathy, in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood of St. Paul.

Matt Entenza
Board Member

Macalester class of 1983, Matt served as an Assistant Attorney General.  While at the Attorney General's office Matt also was an Assistant Professor at St.  Mary's University teaching law. Matt later joined the Hennepin County Attorney's office, prosecuting white-collar crime. Matt represented Minnesota State House of Representatives District 64A from 1995-2007. As a State Representative, Matt continued his role as a public watchdog. Matt was elected House Democratic Leader by his colleagues, serving from 2002-2006. He did not seek re-election but ran for Attorney General. During his tenure, he served on the K-12 Finance, Education Policy and Commerce Committees and is widely recognized for his hard work and tireless focus on consumer and family
protections. Matt founded Minnesota 2020; a progressive, non-partisan think tank in June of 2007. He serves as the group's Board Chair and is also a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Law and Politics at the University of Minnesota Law School. Matt and his wife have 3 sons and live in Merriam Park.

Ellen Watters
Board Member

Ellen Watters, a 1983 Macalester Graduate is a partner in the consulting
firm, Civic Source, which produces community issues education programs and
other community engagement and community development projects. Prior to
launching Civic Source, Ellen served as Senior Vice President of Economic
Development for the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce. Prior to joining
the Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce in 2002, Ellen served as President
of the Midway Chamber of Commerce for nearly six years. Her earlier career
was primarily in communications and fundraising. Ellen also serves as Chair
of the Board of Trustees of Episcopal Homes of Minnesota. Ellen lives in St.
Anthony Park.

Steve Euller
Board Member

Steve Euller, class of 1971, is a member of the Macalester College Board of Trustees and chair of its Senior Leadership Review Committee. He retired in 2011 as General Counsel of Cargill, Incorporated, having spent his entire legal career working for Cargill in locations around the world and directing a global team of 200 lawyers. He is a 1979 graduate of Harvard Law School. He and his wife Nancy Roehr live in Minneapolis, and they have twin daughters who are recent college graduates.

Gerald A. Meigs
Board Member

Gerald A. Meigs, class of 1957 was Senior Vice President at St. Paul Book and Stationery, and a director for two national trade associations covering the office and school products industry. He later went on to work with former Minnesota Gov. Elmer L. Andersen at ECM Publishers. He was a director of the international board of Rotary International where he served as executive committee chair of and received several of its highest honors. He has been involved in service projects around the world, particularly Rotary’s PolioPlus program, through which he personally distributed immunizations in Ethiopia, India and Nigeria. He co-founded an independent living community for seniors, led the establishment of the foundation at Falcon Heights United Church of Christ, twice served as president of the James J. Hill Reference Library and is active in Sugarloaf, a northshore environmental stewardship organization near Tofte, Minn. Gerald has two sons and five grandsons and lives in Saint Paul.

Brian Rosenberg
Macalester College President, Ex Officio

Brian Rosenberg, the 16th president of Macalester College, began his tenure at the college in August 2003.  He has focused on strengthening the connections between Macalester and the local urban community.  Rosenberg is a member of Leadership Circle of the Presidents Climate Commitment and has led the college in a number of sustainability initiatives.  Rosenberg is chair of the Commission on International Initiatives of the American Council on Education and Chair of the Presidents’ Council of Project Pericles, an organization founded by Eugene Lang and devoted to education for democratic citizenship. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the St. Paul Academy and Summit School.  Rosenberg is the former chair of the board of the Minnesota Private College Council.  Prior to becoming president, Rosenberg was the dean of the faculty and an English professor at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., a position he held from 1998-2003.  Rosenberg began his academic career as an adjunct assistant professor of humanities at The Cooper Union in New York City in 1982. He worked at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa., from 1983 to 1998 as an English professor and as chair of the English Department and participated in the development of the college's strategic plan.   A Charles Dickens scholar, Rosenberg has written numerous articles on the Victorian author and other subjects as well as two books.  He was elected to the board of trustees of The Dickens Society in 2000.  He and his wife have two sons and live in Mac Groveland.