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Lisa Steinmann

About me

Lisa Steinmann is a St. Paul-based freelance writer who has lived in the St. Anthony Park neighborhood for more than 20 years and covered youth, school and community news in the pages of the Park Bugle for the past 12 years. Her work was recognized at the first regional Ethnic and Community Media Awards co-hosted by the Twin Cities Daily Planet and New America Media.

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White farmer, African American college professor named 2012 Facing Race Ambassadors, and keep the conversation going in Minnesota

By Lisa Steinmann, TC Daily Planet

The smiles were broad and the drum beat insistent at the Crowne Plaza hotel in downtown St. Paul Monday evening, April 23. The Duniya Drum and Dance group, part of the opening performance for the sixth annual Facing Race Ambassador Awards, set an energetic tone.MORE »

Central Corridor artist Seitu Jones recruits students to build a legacy in St. Paul

By Lisa Steinmann, TC Daily Planet

The high-pitched whir of a wood sander filled the air as a half dozen Gordon Parks High School students, wearing safety goggles and turquoise work coats, carved with chisels and gouges across a large basswood panel. What was emerging from their careful handwork was a cluster of teardrop-shaped leaves, each as tall as the students themselves.MORE »

MN VOICES | Mahmoud El-Kati's half century as educator and activist in the Twin Cities

By Lisa Steinmann, TC Daily Planet

Mahmoud El-Kati has an interesting face. He looks stern until he smiles, which he does frequently, and he maintains a direct gaze animated by the rise and fall of his arched brow; it expresses the intellectual nature of a man who has worked hard as an educator and civil rights activist over the past 50 years in the Twin Cities.MORE »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Neighbors and Friends Gather to Remember Those Who Lost Their Lives Sixty-two Years Ago

By Jack Steinmann

By Lisa Steinmann, Neighborhood Notes

Neighbors and friends gathered around Diane Doughty-Madsen providing a sense of warmth on a cold evening. They stood near fifteen ice globes illuminated by candles. The group assembled to remember the anniversary of the crash of Northwest flight 307 near Minnehaha Creek.MORE »

Constructions in Concert: New Textile Center exhibit coincides with Central Corridor construction season opening

By Lisa Steinmann

By Lisa Steinmann, TC Daily Planet

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Lisa Steinmann

There is a convergence of meaning in the term ‘construction’ when it comes to the newest exhibit at The Textile Center’s Joan Mondale Gallery (3000 University Avenue SE, Minneapolis).MORE »

FREE SPEECH ZONE | Race to Nowhere and the Science of a Happy Education

By Lisa Steinmann

Photos By:

Lisa Steinmann

My sisters and I went to see a screening of Race to Nowhere last night (February 29). Edina’s Parent Communication Network (PCN) hosted the screening at Southview Middle School for a capacity crowd.MORE »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Black Bear Crossing on the Lake Hosts Reading by Native American Authors

By Lisa Steinmann, Neighborhood Notes

Black Bear Crossings on the Lake hosted an evening with Native American authors Brenda Child and David Treuer on Monday, February 20. The event, a fundraiser was presented by The Circle the Twin-Cities-based Native American newspaper.MORE »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | St. Anthony Park Nominees for the Neighborhood Honor Roll

By Lucy Steinmann

By Lisa Steinmann, Neighborhood Notes

In a city known for its enviable quality of life, it’s a big honor to be noted for improving it. The Neighborhood Honor Roll Celebration is a citywide event organized by all 17 St. Paul District Councils to celebrate the people who have "improved the quality of life in St. Paul.” This year the honorees from St.MORE »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Mount Como Has it: Snow!

By Lisa Steinmann

By Lisa Steinmann, Neighborhood Notes

Mount Como, the steep hill in Como Park where snowboarding and ski lessons take place every winter, is as white as a snow-capped Alpine mountain. A shortage of snow and the mild winter temperatures have resulted in a distinctly different appearance for the local snow sport season. “The problem is – people see brown in their backyards and think that it’s the same on the hill.MORE »

NEIGHBORHOOD NOTES | Serenity Now! How to Avoid a Winter Tag and Tow in St Anthony Park (and the Rest of the City)

By Jack Steinmann

By Lisa Steinmann, Neighborhood Notes

Get your car out of the way of the plows when the snow falls thick and heavy or you’ll get tagged with a ticket and stuck with a tow to the impound lot. The city of St.MORE »