Promise Stewart and Santonio Ford met 18 years ago, on a prison bus headed to a halfway house in Cleveland. They noticed each other’s edge-ups and began a conversation that changed their lives.
Author Archives: Stan Donaldson Jr.
Stan Donaldson Jr. is a staff writer for The Marshall Project – Cleveland who leads local community engagement reporting efforts. He spent a decade in newsrooms, including The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer, where he won several awards for his reporting. A native of Youngstown, Ohio, Donaldson joined The Marshall Project from his alma mater, Norfolk State University, where he served as the director of media relations and the president’s speechwriter.