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2024-2026 WCC Board of Directors Biographies

 

Michelle Hemingway

Michelle has lived in Windom since 1994 and has been a block club leader for 25 years.  Professionally she has worked within community outreach/marketing/medical education departments for Twin Cities’ premier healthcare organizations.  Currently, in her Windom Community Council role, Michelle intends to keep the Windom neighborhood a safe and desirable place to live by establishing partnerships within the community and continuing concerted efforts with the City of Minneapolis’ Ward 11 Council Members Office.  More recently, as Garfield Avenue block leader, helped lead efforts to hold accountable the owners and potential purchasers and developers of the Aqua Inn and Metro Inn Motels.  

 

Incha Krein

Incha has lived in Windom community and owned property for over 30 years as well as being a business owner. She currently works as a maintenance supervisor for a large organization. She is interested in being on the Windom community Board because she is concerned about the community, and has a stake in and wants to help it to move in a good direction as we go into the future.​​

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Becky McIntosh 

Becky returned to the Windom neighborhood in 2014 to the house her family has owned for more than 60 years, and is an alumnus of Windom, the former Ramey Jr High School, and Washburn.  Her younger daughter, Catherine, lives with her, and her older daughter, Elizabeth, lives in Savage with her husband and adorable 18-month-old daughter.  She is retired from the Minneapolis Health Department following a 46-year career in community and public health in the U.S. and internationally.  She is active at Mayflower Church, belongs to the Twin Cities Scottish Club, loves to travel (can’t wait to be able to go again), and is in the process of converting her front yard lawn to native plants and grasses.    She has served on the Board for a number of years, most of them as treasurer.

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Dembo Darboe

Dembo Darboe is from The Gambia, West Africa and is married to Toni Darboe with three children (two boys and a girl) and live at 120 west 59th street, Minneapolis since 2001. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in economics and worked at the school for the past sixteen years before he started his insurance career upon completing the national examinations for the CPCU Designation. He has his Minnesota producer insurance license on property & casualty, life, health, and accident. He was a past board member for the community and looking forward to the opportunity to serve my community again.

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Jaime Lieser

Jamie lives on 56th and Harriet. Jamie, his wife (Tara) and his sons Alex (11) and Miles (9) have lived in Windom for almost 12 years and care deeply about the community and Minneapolis. He has served as co-president of the Windom Community school PTO and and a contributing member of the Anthony Middle School PTA.  In 2021, to help support the Windom school after the recent changes, some of his Windom neighbors and Jamie coordinated “Halloween on Harriet”, a now annual fundraiser we used to help fund the school PTO the first year and which we used to help the school and local food shelves in 2022. We raised just over $5,000 in total in 2022, after some matching corporate contributions.  He has worked as Vice President of Client Digital Experience at Ameriprise. 

 

George Hall

George resides on Wentworth Ave.  He has lived in the Windom Community for the past 5 years and have developed a passion for our community over these years.  He has developed many relationships with fellow neighbors over the course of this time and he feels that he can engage our Windom Community and positively connect with our Windom residents, building trust and being a significant impact and assisting in developing improvements. Through his experience with leadership and community engagement he is delighted to serve on the Windom Community.​​

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Dean Anderson

Coming Soon!

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