Minneapolis City Council Member
350 S 5th Street
City Hall, Room 307
Minneapolis, MN 55415

Phone (612) 673-2202
Cell (612) 296-0579
Fax (612) 673-3940
E-mail Cam.Gordon@ci.minneapolis.mn.us

Cam Gordon has lived in Minneapolis all his life and in or near the second ward since 1977 in the Cedar-Riverside, Longfellow and Seward neighborhoods. He has owned a duplex in Seward since 1991 where he lives with his partner, Sarah, and 5 of their children -- ages three to eighteen.

Council member Gordon graduated with distinction from the University of Minnesota in 1977 and went on to complete extensive graduate work in early childhood development and Montessori education. He is a writer, musician and accomplished Montessori teacher. He currently operates a small child care program and children's music company with Sarah and is Associate Editor of the nationally distributed education newspaper Public School Montessorian. He is author of Together with Montessori, a guide to help parents and staff work together in harmony to create better schools.

Over the past 25 years Council member Gordon has worked in the community as a teacher, community organizer, performer and reporter for the neighborhood newspaper the Seward Profile, and editor of its West Bank Stories section.