Linda Lee Soderstrom ’72 receives award from National Low Income Housing Coalition
Soderstrom majored in studies in dance at Carleton.
Linda Lee “llsod” Soderstrom ’72 has received a 2026 Loraine Brown Resident Leader Award from the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). This award honors a person living in subsidized housing who has shown dedication to helping tenants, people experiencing homelessness, and their community.
Linda Lee Soderstrom was licensed in Minneapolis for Hennepin County until 1994 as a daycare and foster care provider for 60 medically fragile preschool-aged children prenatally exposed to alcohol & other drugs, five were whole family placements. Her one adopted son turns 40 in 2026. She has always been a Jill-of-all-trades, organizing in the fair housing community since 2015. In that community, they used their voices and grassroots power together to file a class action objecting to the displacement of over 2,350 extremely low-income Crossroads residents in suburban Richfield, MN.