Shawna Stoltenberg
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Shawna Deeann Stoltenberg Meisner (born August 25, 1969) was Miss Minnesota
Miss Minnesota
The Miss Minnesota competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Minnesota in the Miss America pageant. Minnesota has won the Miss America crown on three occasions. The last, was Gretchen Carlson, in 1989.- Winners :...

 1993 and competed in the Miss America
Miss America
The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands...

 pageant broadcast live from Atlantic City, New Jersey in September that year. She was born to Ardeen & Joanne Schlimgan Stoltenberg. She has one brother named Brett.

Miss America

Stoltenberg won an award for talent in the nationally-televised event and earned enough scholarship money to graduate from college debt free. She was also the first contestant in the history of the pageant to address the issue of missing children and to share Jacob’s story of HOPE.

Personal Life

Stoltenberg specializes in corporate talent development having most recently worked for Ameriprise
Ameriprise Financial
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. is one of the leading diversified financial services companies in the U.S. Ameriprise Financial engages in business through its...

, Allianz Life of North America, Target Corporation, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She has more than 10 years of experience as a strategic change consultant, corporate trainer, facilitator, performance coach and former television news anchor.

Stoltenberg is also a speaker, trainer and former board member for the Jacob Wetterling Foundation, a missing children's organization in Minnesota that works nationally to end the sexual exploitation and abduction of children. She has delivered presentations to more than 10,000 students, parents and community organizations on how to keep children safe.

Stoltenberg has studied piano for more than 20 years. She is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison with Bachelor degrees in Broadcast Journalism and Piano Performance. She earned her Master’s degree from the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities in Human Resource and Organizational Development. On January 9, 2000, she married husband & photographer, Bjorn Meisner.

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