What is life in your Akron neighborhood like? Akron Documenters are working on a special project about the city’s neighborhoods and want your help in shaping the project. Your short answers to the questions below will help guide Documenters later this summer and fall as they seek to tell the story of each Akron neighborhood from the voices of those who live there. (Here’s a map of Akron’s neighborhoods.)

Tell us about your Akron neighborhood:

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What neighborhood do you live in?*

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Community Journalism Director (he/him)
Kevin leads the Akron Documenters program at Signal Akron, connects with the community and supports the journalists in the newsroom. With a servant leader mindset, he brings more than 30 years of experience in local journalism, media consulting, and education to Akron. Editor & Publisher selected Kevin as top media leader in their “25 over 50” class in 2022. Members of the group were selected for their “strong work ethic, transformational mindsets, commitment to journalistic and publishing excellence, and their ability to lead during challenging times.” Kevin is committed to serving the residents of Akron with an optimistic, inclusive, and innovative mindset to help elevate civic engagement and local journalism.

Akron Documenters trains and pays residents to document local government meetings with notes and live-tweet threads. We then make those meeting summaries available as a new public record.