Briana Thompson (Dawson Olson photo) It is snowing when I meet arts entrepreneur Briana Thompson at The Spot, a local Black owned business in Dubuque. She hustles through the door, long locs piled high on her head like a crown frosted with the falling snow. The photographer and graphic designer spent her... read full story
"Culturally, Dubuque was a little different to what I was used to … I didn't have mentors in my field who I could look up to. I had to go to the library to find people like me."