Rebecca Bell Sorensen

I live for building community by creating new opportunities to bring people together. A few winters ago I co-created “Morningside After Dark: Storytelling and Live Music Series” to help me and my neighbors survive the deep freeze. From fashion trucks with hula hoops and Glam Doll donuts in my driveway for charities like UNICEF and the Greater Minneapolis Crisis Nursery to hosting Project 515’s most successful fundraiser for Vote No (yay!) I didn’t get the nickname “The Connector” in the MSP Mag “Real Housewives of MN” issue for nothin’! A mother of four, I’m a Gloucester (“Glosta”), Mass., native who moved to Edina a decade ago following a career in cultural PR promoting projects such as the High Line and Jazz at Lincoln Center. My mantra is “circulate, don’t hibernate” — words that have kept my toes frostbite-free and I hope my community a bit more connected.