YOUR CANDIDATE
Meet Cassie Iverson
Roseville resident. Community builder. Your neighbor.
Growing up in rural Minnesota, Cassie learned that community is something you do, not something you say. She has spent eighteen years advocating for Minnesota's aging population in systems that families find impossible to navigate alone. Now she’s chosen Roseville and decided to keep showing up, this time at City Hall.
Her roots
Growing up in rural Minnesota, Cassie (she/her) learned early that community isn't something you talk about, it's something you do. In the small town where she was raised, neighbors showed up for neighbors.
Her mom has been a nurse for nearly five decades, spending years in public health nursing before becoming a hospice supervisor, a career built on caring and advocating for people every day. Her dad owned a construction business for ten years before spending the next two and a half decades in building and overhead door sales. Different fields, same foundation: reputation built over decades and relationships that last.
Cassie grew up watching what it looks like to do work that matters, day after day, without fanfare. It taught her that there are many ways to show up for people, no matter the occupation. People are always at the center. That's the standard she holds herself to.
From a small town to the Twin Cities
Cassie came to the Twin Cities for college, recruited as an athlete at Hamline University, and completed her Bachelor’s Degree in English with an emphasis in writing at the University of St. Thomas. Cassie came out of college with the same thing she went in with: the conviction that you show up, you do the work, and you don't leave people behind.
She stayed. In Saint Paul, Minneapolis, Robbinsdale, she spent her twenties and thirties building a career, a family, and putting down roots. In Robbinsdale, she joined the city crime prevention team, the kind of civic work that doesn't make headlines but keeps communities safe and connected.
Cassie found a home and community of 12 years at Saint Anthony Park United Church of Christ, a justice-oriented congregation that takes seriously what it means to show up for people and one another. Serving on boards and the council numerous times, most recently, Cassie was on the board of trustees and a representative to the church council.
The work that shaped her
The career Cassie planned for was hard to come by after graduation, so she did what she's always done: she showed up and worked hard at whatever was in front of her. Retail. Bartending. Event security. Pressure washing parking ramps while the rest of the metro slept. Jobs that plenty of people would have considered a detour. She considered them a foundation.
In 2008, she landed in elder law as a receptionist and legal assistant. Something unexpected happened, and she fell in love with the work. Cassie decided to further her experience and knowledge by becoming a paralegal.
What drove her wasn't just the job. It was the vision: making sure Minnesota families have someone who understands the complete picture of aging, disability, and long-term care, not just the legal paperwork, but the human-centered side of aging. She's now one of a small number of paralegals in Minnesota who specialize in Medical Assistance benefits for aging and disabled individuals, with additional expertise in veterans benefits and Minnesota Veterans Home admissions. She speaks and educates on these issues because she believes families shouldn’t have to navigate one of life’s hardest chapters alone.
This is where her values became a career. For over eighteen years, she's spent her days in the gap between what systems promise and what families actually experience trying to access those promises. Fighting for people who need someone in their corner isn't a campaign message for Cassie. It's just a Tuesday.
Choosing Roseville
In 2023, Cassie chose Roseville. She'd been engaging with this community since her time at Hamline; the neighborhoods, the restaurants, the way it holds onto something grounded while the metro keeps changing around it. She didn't end up here. She chose here.
Cassie lives in Roseville with her fiancé, Vic, and her two children. They're a blended family in two households navigating between Roseville and a southern suburb, working together as a team to raise children who are rooted in both communities.
It's a family that may look different from the outside, but the love and commitment to showing up for each other are the same as any family. And it's given Cassie a firsthand understanding of what families really need from their community, whether that's grandparents raising grandchildren, single parents, blended households, or families that have never had to explain their shape to anyone.
In the community
Outside of home and work, Cassie stays active in the community. She's passionate about fitness as a vehicle for strength and empowerment, particularly for women and girls. She's involved with Girls on the Run and is training for her third YWCA Women's Triathlon.
But ask anyone who knows Cassie's schedule, and they'll tell you: No Quit Fit is non-negotiable. Three times a week, year-round, outdoors in Central Park, rain, snow, or a Minnesota morning that would send most people back inside. No Quit Fit isn't just a workout. It's a community. Cassie has built deep friendships there, including with Roseville neighbors she may have never met otherwise. It's the kind of connection that happens when you show up consistently, in all conditions, for the same people over time. Which is, not coincidentally, exactly how she approaches everything else in her life.
And each summer, you'll find her on the softball field with the Twin Cities Goodtime Softball League, the oldest LGBTQ+ softball league in the country, founded right here in the Twin Cities in 1979. Some communities you're born into. Some you choose. Cassie has always known the value of both.
Why Cassie is running
Roseville is at a moment. Decisions being made right now about housing, development, transit, and neighborhood investment will shape this city for a generation. How the Rosedale corridor gets developed. Whether our streets and sidewalks work for people who don't own cars. Whether families at every income level can afford to stay here. These aren't abstract policy questions. They're decisions about what kind of community we're building together.
Cassie is running because she believes those decisions should be made by someone who shows up, not just for the loudest voices in the room, but for the worker, the renter, the senior, the family navigating a city that isn't always designed with them in mind. She's spent her entire career doing exactly that. This is the next place to do it.
Roseville isn't a stepping stone for Cassie. It's home. She chose it deliberately, she's invested in it fully, and she's ready to serve it with everything she's got.
From Cassie’s story to her priorities for Roseville
She's not running on vague promises. Cassie has real, specific positions shaped by a career spent navigating the systems that affect everyday people most. From housing and transit to development and neighborhood investment, see exactly what she'll bring to City Hall.