Alexis Oberdorfer, Vice President of Community Engagement and Partnerships, leads LSS in partnering with other organizations and community leaders to advance new innovations, partnerships that build healthier, more sustainable communities and to improve the lives of the persons we serve.  She is involved in partnership with the St Paul Area Synod on the new preschool in East St Paul through the Planting Hope campaign. This is a trauma informed therapeutic preschool dealing with children and families who are greatly in need. 

Alexis, who most of you know from being a member here at POP for many years, brings credible lived experience to her work being raised in a multi-racial, multicultural family.  She and her husband have three children, two of whom were adopted as siblings.