Staff: Dhaivyd Hilgendorf

Librarian-Media Specialist, Special Events Coordinator, and Volunteer Manager

Dhaivyd grew up as an active member of the Twin Cities Friends Meeting, and attended Scattergood Friends School for his high school years. He spent five years studying education and the rhythm instruments of India and Egypt in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he taught Spanish and Social Studies. He also played percussion in the Straw Coyotes, a Bay Area folk music group. He then taught English as a Foreign Language in Ansan City, South Korea, and travelled throughout much of South East Asia and the Indian Subcontinent before returning to Minnesota to settle. He has three young children and lives seven blocks from Friends School. He is pursuing a Masters degree in Library and Information Science at the College of Saint Catherine, and was recently awarded the 2005 Peggy Johnson [Library] Collection Development Scholarship."

BA in International Relations, University of Minnesota, Magna Cum Laude

BA in Secondary Education, Social Studies, San Francisco State University

Dhaivyd has worked at FSM since 1997.

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