Neeraj Mehta

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Neeraj has been a “Northsider” for 13 years and lives with his wife Erin and two energetic sons, Koen and Ezra, in the Jordan neighborhood of North Minneapolis. He is the director of community based research at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs at the University of Minnesota and is a 2011 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow. On his free time… oh wait he has no free time, didn’t you read that he has two small kids?

Community Development Field

NoMi? NoBe? No Go

May 24, 2013 | Neeraj Mehta

A few years ago, we had a movement of people who tried to rebrand our Twin Cities community as “NoMi”—a shortened take on North Minneapolis, where I live and work. […]