Last night, I was in a room with 250 concerned neighbors and 216 folks on zoom. THANK YOU FOR SHOWING UP. Thank you so much to Council Member Aurin Chowdhury, Senator Zaynab Mohamed, Longfellow Community Council, and Standish for hosting and organizing such a successful event. We are so lucky to have both the Office of Immigrant Rights & Refugees in the room with us as well as ACLU. If you are looking for a copy of the slides that the ACLU presented, you can find them below.

The Nokomis East Neighborhood Association mourns alongside the community for the killing of Renee Nicole Good during the attack by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on January 7, 2026. We strongly condemn the profiling and targeting of our immigrant neighbors by ICE and other federal officials and public figures, and we denounce the activities causing terror in our entire city. As a neighborhood organization, NENA supports each and every community member, regardless o

At NENA, we are excited to head into 2026 stronger than ever. Thanks to the amazing residents and business owners of the Nokomis East neighborhood, we are informed on how we can best support the community by listening to results of the planning survey we conducted in 2025. With the insights we gathered, and an engaged and passionate team, NENA is looking forward to making a big impact in the year to come. The survey, developed by a task force of the NENA board, was distribute

With inflation rising, food costs at an all time high, and precariously offered SNAP benefits, the demand for free and low cost food is unprecedented. According to The Food Group, Minnesotans made nearly 9 million visits to food shelves in 2024, a whopping 1.4 million more visits than 2023. That’s one of the reasons the Nokomis East Giving Garden prioritized the expansion of the garden in 2025. Started in 2017, the Giving Garden was a grassroots project born out of need for m