Who is Gwen Walz? What to know about the wife of Har­ris VP pick Tim Walz

Gwen Walz is get­ting thrust into the spot­light now that her hus­band Gov. Tim Walz (D‑MN) has joined Vice Pres­i­dent Kamala Har­ris as her vice pres­i­den­tial run­ning mate.
Being in the pub­lic eye won’t be new for Gwen, who has been mar­ried to Tim for three decades. Before going into pol­i­tics, Tim was a teacher, like his wife.
Here are a few things to know about the woman who could become the next sec­ond lady of the Unit­ed States.
Gwen met Tim when they were both teach­ers in Alliance, Nebras­ka. Gwen, a Min­neso­ta native, was a high school Eng­lish teacher and met Walz while he was teach­ing his­to­ry at the same sc …