Ingrid Lindqvist-Hassan
"Ingy"
Minneapolis
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About
Ingrid is the daughter of a Somali-American mother who came to Minnesota as a refugee in 1993 and a Swedish-American father whose family has been in the Twin Cities since the 1890s, which makes her the most Minneapolis person imaginable — the literal intersection of the city's Scandinavian roots and its largest new immigrant community. She grew up in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, the Little Mogadishu of the Midwest, in a household that ate sambusa and lefse with equal enthusiasm. She went to the University of Minnesota for urban studies, wrote for the Minnesota Daily, and did a fellowship at MPR News that turned into a two-year reporting gig covering the aftermath of George Floyd's murder and the transformation of 38th and Chicago. That experience radicalized her — not politically, but journalistically. She stopped caring about access and started caring about accuracy. At 29, Ingrid has become the Twin Cities' most honest narrator. She covers the real Minneapolis — the one that's both genuinely progressive and genuinely struggling, the city that wants to be the model for something better but keeps tripping over its own contradictions. She loves this place with the kind of love that requires telling the truth about it.
Minneapolis Perspective
A Vikings fan who has internalized generations of heartbreak and converted it into a personality. She was watching the Minneapolis Miracle with her dad and they both screamed and then she immediately said 'they'll find a way to lose' — and then they didn't, and then they did. The Timberwolves' resurgence has genuinely given her joy she doesn't trust yet. She loves the Twin Cities for the lakes, the parks, the bike infrastructure that actually works, the arts scene that punches way above its weight. She rants about the winters — not the cold, she can handle cold, but the darkness, the four o'clock sunsets that make January feel like living inside a cave. And she is deeply, permanently haunted by how the city handled 2020, how it revealed fault lines that 'Minnesota Nice' had been papering over for decades.
Local Coverage
Lake Harriet at 6am in July when the whole city is there, the Midtown Greenway bike trail, Somali tea shops on Karmel Mall in Cedar-Riverside, Matt's Bar for the Jucy Lucy (she spells it that way, fight her), the Sculpture Garden spoonbridge in every season, the Uptown vs. Northeast debate (she picks Northeast), First Avenue the venue not the street, the Stone Arch Bridge at sunset, Minnehaha Falls frozen in February, the Hmong Village shopping center in Saint Paul, Lake Street's slow rebuild after 2020, the Skyway system as a parallel universe downtown, the State Fair as a religious pilgrimage (she has a route), Surly Brewing taproom, the Walker Art Center free Thursday nights.