08/27/2026
Continuing on in our series of introducing our board, meet Claire Mireau - Vice President.
Claire grew up in Superior, but Hudson has been part of her life since childhood, when summers often included visits with her aunt and uncle. After finishing graduate school at St. Catherine University, Claire and her husband knew Hudson was where they wanted to build their life and raise their family. They were drawn to the downtown, the water, and the community they found at St. Patrick’s. For the past 12 years, they’ve called Hudson home, living just three miles from 570 Coulee Trail.
When she’s not working on 570 Coulee, Claire is usually with her husband, two daughters (10 & 13), and their two dogs—camping, swimming, enjoying the sauna, or coaching her girls’ rec softball and volleyball teams. By day, she teaches in the graduate occupational therapy program at St. Catherine University.
Claire loves anything that gets her hands moving or gets her outside—gardening, campfires, baking, knitting, macramé, puzzles, and creating meaningful art from things she has collected.
Her passion for 570 Coulee grew from 15 years working in occupational therapy and rehabilitation in psychiatric and substance use settings. Through that work, she saw firsthand how isolation, lack of support, and barriers to stability affect everyday people. While completing her PhD, one thought kept coming back: “We have to get further upstream.”
Claire envisioned a place where community, connection, purpose, and meaningful activities could support people long before they reached a crisis. In December 2023, after a youth softball meeting, Matt (fellow board member) asked Claire how her doctorate was going. She launched into an impassioned soapbox about creating upstream mental well-being and a community center in our own backyard. Matt paused, smiled, and said, "You have to meet my friend Heidi."
After experiencing significant losses in her own family in 2025, the mission became even more personal. Claire saw how challenging major life transitions can be, not just for individuals but for entire families. It reinforced something she has long believed through her work in occupational therapy: people need people.
Sometimes support is practical. Sometimes it’s having someone to talk to. And sometimes it’s simply doing something you love alongside someone who enjoys it too.
That’s what Claire hopes 570 Coulee can be—a place where relationships are built side-by-side through joy, purpose, and shared experiences, so when life gets hard, no one has to carry it alone.
We appreciate Claire’s dedication to 570 Coulee and the valuable expertise and perspective she brings to our Board!
