Lindsey Siegfried de Sánchez has served as President of the Minn-Kota Regional Alumni Association since 2021 and is also the Minn-Kota representative on the Phi Theta Kappa Alumni Advisory Board. She joined PTK at Normandale Community College in 2018, where she served as a regional vice president for 2018-2019, and then as VP of Scholarship for her chapter in 2019. She is currently working on finishing her bachelor’s degree at Harvard Extension School as an admitted ALB degree candidate. After going through a long, difficult process to change her husband’s immigration status, he encouraged her to fulfill her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer, so she is working towards being able to practice immigration law. Outside of school, Lindsey volunteers at Immigrant Hope, is captain of her block for neighborhood crime prevention, serves with her husband on the Equipo de Conexiónes (Connections Team) at their bilingual church, and is a fifth degree black belt at National Karate, where she trains in both karate and Krav Maga. She has taught karate in both English and Spanish for over ten years. Before Normandale, she graduated from the Art Institutes International in 2005 with a Certificate in Baking & Pastry, which she uses at home all the time to make tasty desserts that are allowed on her weird diet. Lindsey lives in her little pink house in Minneapolis, MN with her husband and their two calico kitties.

Petra joined Phi Theta Kappa at Normandale Community College as a PSEO student in 2017, serving as Minn-Kota Regional Vice President of South District from 2017-2018. She worked as Regional Honors in Action Chair that year, leading her team in developing a nutritional awareness toolkit, as well as being a board member in creating the B.U.D.S. peer mentorship program at Normandale. She received her AA in Liberal Education with a Certificate in Spanish at Normandale and continued to pursue her education at the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire, earning her BBA in Information Systems, with a Management Minor and Certificates in Global Economics and English Rhetorics. She is currently pursuing a JD at the University of Minnesota Law School with aspirations to practice municipal and insurance law. In her free time (of which there isn’t much now with law school!), Petra works as a part-time office manager for Immigrant Hope, volunteers as a trained National Weather Service storm spotter, and is very involved in her faith community. She also enjoys playing instruments, spending time with her cats Floofle and Lincoln, crafting and hand lettering, and playing boardgames.

Christy Ohlrogge began in Phi Theta Kappa as VP of Fellowship in the Alpha Omicron Beta Chapter for a short time in 2013. This role inevitably enabled her to fall in love with PTK and she took on leadership as Chapter Co-President and subsequently South District Regional VP for Minn-Kota. In this year of 2014-2015 she served on the same Regional Officer Team as Deanna - and the team was awarded Distinguished Regional Officer Team. The connections she built across the country by participating in Honors Institute and what is now known as Catalyst have both supported and driven her to complete her A.A. in Political Science and B.A. in Communications Studies from the University of Minnesota - where she continues to build relationships and advocate for the transfer community in her role as Fund Utilization Analyst at the U of M Foundation. “Connecting with others is challenging because everyone comes to the table with different experiences and mindsets that create lenses of viewing the world in new and unique ways. I’ve found through my time with PTK that this challenge is ultimately rewarding when you can break down that lens and meet others where they are at.” Christy is currently enjoying her free time in the form of cuddles with her cat Mikko, playing Fortnite with her fiance, and watching anime.

Deanna joined Phi Theta Kappa at Lake Superior College as a Chapter President from 2012-2015. She served as a Minn-Kota Region Officer from 2014-2015. She is one of few with the distinction of a 2015 PTK Guistwhite scholar, 2015 Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholar, and 2018 Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholar. She has been the PTK advisor for Lake Superior College since 2015 and Minn-Kota Associate Regional Coordinator since 2016. She also served as a Minn-Kota Faculty Scholar in 2018 and 2019. Deanna completed her undergraduate degree in English at The College of St. Scholastica (Duluth) in 2017 and received her master’s degree in English and Literature from Arizona State University in 2019. She currently works as an adjunct English and Literature professor/instructor with Lake Superior College’s contract with the Department of Corrections, teaching literature and humanities classes to student inmates and two separate facilities. Her personal belief is that the best class is the one in which both the students and the professor/instructor learn from each other.