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Stephanie, who covered criminal justice and breaking news at the Chicago Tribune, is a bilingual journalist with a passion for storytelling that is inclusive and reflects the diversity of the communities she covers. She has been a reporter and copy editor for local newspapers in South Dakota, Kansas and Arizona. Stephanie is also a Maynard 200 alumni, a Maynard Institute for Journalism Education training program for journalists of color that focuses on making newsrooms more equitable, diverse and anti-racist.

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Luzelena Klopp (izquierda) y Rosa Briola (derecha) quitan malezas y podan plantas en el Jardín Cultural Colombiano el 10 de junio de 2023.
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Tres países latinoamericanos hacen historia en Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova June 23, 2023June 29, 2023
Luzelena Klopp (left) and Rosa Briola (right) pull weeds and trim plants at the Colombian Cultural Garden on June 10, 2023. The women are both wearing yellow shirts. Klopp is in red shorts and a red, yellow and blue striped hat, the colors of the Colombian flag. Briola is in jeans, bending down, her hand pulling up weeds from the ground.
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Three Latin American countries making history at Cleveland Cultural Gardens

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova June 22, 2023July 13, 2023
Housing inspector Steve Lang surveys a home on West 86th Street near Wentworth Avenue in the West Boulevard neighborhood. He holds a tablet where he answers a series of questions about the home.
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Quality of Cleveland’s occupied homes and structures dips, new property survey shows 

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova June 15, 2023June 26, 2023
Shalenah Williams, sits on the left side of a room talking with a group of women at an event titled, “You Are My Sister – A Conversation about Police Violence with Black Women.” The event took place on March 23, at Toward Employment. It was the first in a series of discussions the Community Police Commission is organizing.
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Conversation to shed light on trans, queer and non-binary community’s police interactions 

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova June 13, 2023July 25, 2023
Cuyahoga County Executive Chris Ronayne and Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb at a news conference on revitalizing downtown.
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STEM scholarship for Ohio girls, hiring Cleveland’s hirer, buddies Bibb and Ronayne (Weekly Chatter)

Avatar photoNick Castele, Government ReporterStephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice ReporterAmy Morona, Higher Education Reporter by Mark Naymik, Nick Castele, Stephanie Casanova and Amy Morona June 12, 2023June 11, 2023
Rondaline Radcliff scrolls through text messages between her and the property manager at Euclid Estates, on Wednesday, May 31, 2023. Radcliff and other residents received an eviction notice giving them until June 20 to move out.
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Another landlord leaves Cleveland residents scrambling for housing 

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova June 7, 2023June 6, 2023
Bill Vedra, director of Cincinnati's Emergency Communications Center, shares with Cuyahoga County leaders how their dispatch center works with their new Alternative Response to Crisis (ARC) team. The group is hoping to bring an alternative response team to Cleveland and Cuyahoga County to offer an alternative to police response for mental health crises.
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Cuyahoga County could save millions through non-police response to mental health crisis calls, new report says

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova May 25, 2023June 29, 2023
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Cleveland stadiums and sin tax (Weekly Chatter)

Nick Castele, Government ReporterAvatar photoStephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Nick Castele, Mark Naymik and Stephanie Casanova May 22, 2023May 21, 2023
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East Cleveland police ends traffic safety collaboration with State Highway Patrol

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova May 19, 2023May 19, 2023
Heravon Williams Sr. in a grey Ohio State t-shirt and black ball cap stands outside the abandoned house next door to where he lives on Kinsman Road on Monday, May, 2023. WIlliams Sr. was excited to see the house will finally be demolished this week.
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City razing abandoned house viral for spray-painted message to Mayor Bibb

Stephanie Casanova, Criminal Justice Reporter by Stephanie Casanova May 9, 2023May 11, 2023

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