Cleveland Documenters In Action

May 6, 2022 from 9:30am - 12:15pm

Join Lila Mills and Lawrence Daniel Caswell of Cleveland Documenters to learn about the critical work this team is providing and how you can become involved.

In these days of electronic outreach and reporting, critical information must be accurately captured and shared in a world of fast-paced, competing “noise.” Enter Cleveland Documenters. This local organization recruits, trains, and pays Greater Clevelanders to document official committee meetings of the Cuyahoga County and City of Cleveland governments and contribute to a communal pool of public knowledge.

Learn more about this group—then sign up to be trained and paid $16/hour to document meetings and publish content on Documenters.org, where anyone can track public meeting schedules, agendas, and meeting minutes.

Caswell, Cleveland Documenters’ field coordinator, has worked in non-commercial community media for 27 years, including over a decade at Ideastream Public Media. In that time, Caswell has gained experience in broadcast journalism, multimedia, and social media production, while learning to use those tools to explore civic engagement and community building. Caswell is also a 2022 John S. Knight Community Impact Fellow at Stanford University.

Mills, associate director of Neighborhood Connections, the home of Cleveland Documenters, is focused on the overall goals of Cleveland Documenters and is responsible for establishing partnerships with local people and organizations, paying Documenters once documents are published, and editing documents.
Cleveland Documenters is in partnership with Chicago-based civic journalism lab City Bureau and made possible with support from the Visible Voice Charitable Fund of the Cleveland Foundation.

For a Zoom link, contact elaine.baptie@ursuline.edu.

This presentation is part of a series supporting Ursuline's Women Entrepreneurs + Innovators program, made possible by a grant from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation.