DANIEL OLUWASEYI OYINLOYE

33, DULUTH

What do you do? (job, community involvement)

Co-founder of DanSan Creatives.

How do you spend your free time?

With family and when given the chance to be alone with music.

Tell us about an influential person in your life.

Jesus is a character that has been my grounding influence.

Where is your favorite place in Duluth/Superior?

Hard to say. All nature takes the award, yet, if I was to write something in stone, it wouldn’t be anywhere but where I spend the most time: our home.

What have you learned in your time spent at home during the pandemic?

That I’m so grateful and so in love with life. How fragile, complicated and wonderfully made we are as a people.

What do you do?

(job, community involvement)

Mayor of the city of Superior.

How do you spend your free time?

I live for the outdoors. Swimming, canoeing and camping in the summer, skiing (cross-country and downhill) in the winter. Running all year long. I also love to read, travel and ride my motorcycle.

Tell us about an influential person in your life.

Former Douglas County Board Chair Doug Finn. He brought me into politics at a time when I felt pushed out. He taught me the value of relationships, compromise and working together. I wouldn’t have this job without him.

What do you do?

(job, community involvement)

As a local community development leader with Local Initiatives Support Corp. Duluth, I help bring together citizen groups, nonprofit organizations and private partnerships in collaboration. I come from the world of field organizing, or getting folks ready and motivated to get out and vote on Election Day.

I’m the current chair of the 8th Congressional District DFL board and volunteer to help candidates with their campaigns.