lmmcdonnell@stthomas.edu
(651) 962-5282
Lynda McDonnell has been a journalist in Minnesota for more than 30 years, covering everything from politics to poverty, labor unions to honey queens. She spent 20 years as a reporter and editor for the St. Paul Pioneer Press, most recently as the political editor. Before that, she was a reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune.
She has been a Nieman fellow at Harvard and a Bush leadership fellow at the University of Minnesota, where she earned an undergraduate degree in journalism and a master’s degree in English, with an emphasis in creative writing.
McDonnell has been the executive director of ThreeSixty at the University of St. Thomas since 2002. McDonnell and her journalist husband live in Minneapolis and have two wonderful adult sons, two terrific daughters-in-law and a beautiful grandson. She is an essayist and short story writer who loves hiking the Ice Age Trail in western Wisconsin. She claims her messy desk is a sign of rampant creativity.
