“We Have to Take a Stand”: Rise in Anti-Asian Attacks Sparks Calls to Action
Dorothy Hernandez/WDET An increase in anti-Asian discrimination and the March shootings in Atlanta have sparked outrage across Asian American and...
Nargis Hakim Rahman is the Civic Reporter at 101.9 WDET. She works with the Documenters program to increase civic engagement. Rahman graduated from Wayne State University, where she was a part of the Journalism Institute of Media Diversity. Rahman started as an intern at WDET in 2010. She participated in the Feet in Two Worlds food journalism fellowship with WDET's Detroit Storymakers project in 2018.
Rahman is a Bangladeshi American who was raised in Metro Detroit. She is passionate about community journalism in the Greater Detroit area. She hopes to give American Muslims and minorities a voice in the press.
“We Have to Take a Stand”: Rise in Anti-Asian Attacks Sparks Calls to Action
Dorothy Hernandez/WDET An increase in anti-Asian discrimination and the March shootings in Atlanta have sparked outrage across Asian American and...
Documenters’ Jimmy Gutierrez Says Program Drives Community Journalism
Detroit Documenters, a program that trains and pays citizens to attend and document public meetings, is growing. Documenters began in...
Documenter Kendal Kuneman Says Program Serves Detroiters
Detroit Documenter Kendal Kuneman heard about the program through a friend who thought she’d be interested in serving Detroiters. Kuneman...
Authors of “A Place at the Table” Spread Allyship Through Food and Friendship
Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan are the co-authors of “A Place at the Table,” a middle school novel about two characters...
Detroit Documenter Field Coordinator Says Program Teaches Detroiters About Each Other
Vassilis Jacobs served as the Detroit Documenters Field Coordinator with Citizen Detroit for the past two years. He’s been working...
Embassy of Bangladesh Brings Essential Consular Services To The Community
People are lined up outside of Kabob House in Hamtramck on Saturday with passports in hand, masks covering their faces. They are waiting...
Retired Detroit Public School Teacher Says Documenters Aids Community Engagement
Dorian Evans Retired Detroit Public School teacher Dorian Evans is a Documenter who has been taking notes at public meetings...
Meet Detroit Documenter Lynelle Herndon
Hundreds of people have been trained and paid to attend and document public meetings since the Documenters program started in Detroit...
Detroit Documenter Says the Program Keeps Detroiters Well-Informed
Ada Nicole Smith Ada Nicole Smith is a native Detroiter who has been a part of the Detroit Documenters program...
Detroit Documenters Provides the Community and Newsrooms With Meeting Information
Courtesy of Jacinda Cason Jacinda Cason is the field director of Michigan Voices. She’s also a Detroit Documenter, who has been...
Detroit Documenters Take a Closer Look at Public Meetings
Detroit Documenters is a paid program that aims to increase civic engagement by training people to take notes and live-tweet...
As Census Wraps, These Michigan Women Won’t Let Their Communities Go Uncounted
A federal judge ruled Thursday that the 2020 census count must continue through the end of October after the Census Bureau...