Marc Hugunin

Marc Hugunin is known for his work in three widely disparate fields—as a former public official and for his continuing work in public policy, as a marketing consultant, and as a basketball historian. He lives and works in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, MN. Hugunin was born in Minneapolis, MN; grew up in Faribault, MN, where he attended Bethlehem Academy High School; and earned degrees at the University of Minnesota (B.A. in History) and Bowling Green State University (OH) (M.A. in Popular Culture).
Politics and Policy
Hugunin was appointed to the Metropolitan Council, a regional governing body in the Twin Cities, by Gov. Jesse Ventura in 1999. He represented most of Washington County, an east metro county, from 1999 to 2003. He was appointed vice chairman of the council by Chair Ted Mondale in 2000 and also served in that capacity through 2003. Previously, he had been elected to the Grant City Council in 1996 and re-elected in 1998.
He founded a non-profit organization, the Friends of Washington County, in 2006 and became its Executive Director in 2009. The Friends are advocates for sustainable development in Washington County and beyond. From 2008 through 2011, the organization was the lead statewide advocate for stronger regulation of landfills, an effort that has resulted in a proposed new rule governing the siting of landfills by the MN Pollution Control Agency.
Marketing
Hugunin has worked in the marketing field since 1980. Currently he is owner and sole proprietor of Pepin Hugunin & Associates. Recent clients include information technology firms such as IDeaS (a SAS company) and Teradata, several units of the State of Minnesota and the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis marketing firms Schermer and Spyglass Creative, and such non-profits as Conservation Minnesota and Envision Minnesota (formerly 1000 Friends of Minnesota) among many others.
Basketball
In 2006, Hugunin co-authored Minnesota Hoops with Stew Thornley. The book, sub-titled Basketball in the North Star State, was published by the Minnesota Historical Society. In 2009, he launched a Web blog, also titled Minnesota Hoops, (MinnesotaHoops.Blogspot.com) which received more than 40,000 page visits during the 2010-2011 basketball season. As of mid-2011, he is the unofficial historian to the Minnesota State High School League as it plans to celebrate the 100th state high school basketball tournament in 2012 and the 100th anniversary of the first tournament in 2013.

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