Shawna Stoltenberg

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Shawna Stoltenberg
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born	Shawna Deeann Stoltenberg^[1] (1969-08-25) August 25, 1969^[1] Hennepin County, Minnesota
Other names	Shawna Meisner
Title(s)	Miss Minnesota 1993
Major competition(s)	Miss America 1994

Shawna Deeann Stoltenberg Meisner (born August 25, 1969) was Miss Minnesota 1993 and competed in the Miss America 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

Personal Life

Stoltenberg specializes in corporate talent development having most recently worked for Ameriprise, 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.^[3]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Minnesota Birth Index, 1935-2002". Ancestry.com. Retrieved November 27, 2010.
↑ Noran, Rebecca (Spring 2005). "Shawna Stoltenberg: Student commencement speaker and Miss America contestant (And, yes, it really is for the scholarships)". University of Minnesota. Retrieved 2006-12-11.
↑ "Minnesota Marriage Collection, 1958-2001". Ancestry.com. Retrieved November 31, 2010.

http://education.umn.edu/alumni/link/2005Spring/Alum-Stoltenberg.html Shawna Stoltenberg: Student commencement speaker and Miss America contestant

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Miss Minnesota Alumni

Preceded by Jo Bender	Miss Minnesota 1993	Succeeded by Eileen Van Driest

v t e Minnesota pageant winners

Miss Minnesota	BeBe Shopp (1948) Dorothy Benham (1976) Lauren Green (1984) Gretchen Carlson (1988) Jo Bender (1992) Shawna Stoltenberg (1993) Kathryn Knuttila (2010) Siri Freeh (2012)

Miss Minnesota USA	Barbara Peterson (1976) Janey Gohl (1978) Polly Peterson (1981) Sarah Cahill (2003) Jessica Dereschuk (2004) Carrie Lee (2005) Dottie Cannon (2006) Alla Ilushka (2007)

Miss Minnesota Teen USA	Sarah Cahill (1996) Alla Ilushka (2002)

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Persondata
Name	Stoltenberg, Shawna
Alternative names
Short description	American model
Date of birth	August 25, 1969
Place of birth	Hennepin County, Minnesota
Date of death
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