Justin Glanville
Senior Producer - Community StorytellingJustin grew up in the suburbs of Cleveland, then zig-zagged from rural Iowa (for college) to ultra-urban New York City (for work and adventures) before moving back home. He now lives with his husband and son in Cleveland’s Detroit-Shoreway neighborhood, a few blocks from Lake Erie.
Before joining Ideastream, he worked as a reporter for the Associated Press in New York and as an urban planner for LAND Studio in Cleveland. He also had his own business, Sidewalk LLC, where he used the tools of storytelling and journalism to contribute to urban planning projects. Some of his favorite career moments include spending a month living in and writing about the Buckeye neighborhood of Cleveland and getting to know residents of the East Side’s Woodhill Homes over the two-year “Homes” storytelling project.
He loves taking long hikes in Cuyahoga Valley National Park, playing guitar and singing, eating bagels and watching scary (but not gory) movies with friends. Doing all of those things in one day has happened and is awesome.
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A Place for Us opened in 2016, and was marketed as Ohio's first residential building for LGBTQ seniors. A former resident and the building's co-developer question whether it's truly serving its intended constituency. -
A Richmond Heights student questions the logic of open enrollment policies when transportation is not provided for families.
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A high school student from Richmond Heights Secondary School faces the grief she feels over her grandmother's death.
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A high school student from Richmond Heights explores what happened to cursive writing instruction in schools.
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A cheerleader at Richmond Heights Secondary School wonders why the spirit she saw depicted in movies like "High School Musical" doesn't seem to exist among her own peers.
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A high school student from Richmond Heights Secondary School asks what it will take to bring recycling back to her school and city.
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Tom Leonhardt of Cleveland's A House of Hope and Prayer died recently of COVID-19. Friends and family remember his life.
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For years, the tiny suburb of Linndale on Cleveland’s southwest side was known to most people for one thing: speeding tickets on the short stretch of I-71 that passes through it. Nowadays, Linndale has a different claim to fame. It's home Cuyahoga County's largest concentration, by percentage, of Hispanic and Latinx people.
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Although gun violence has been rising in all kinds of communities — white, Black, suburban, rural — Little Giants tries to reach Black and urban kids in particular, because of the problems stemming from the systemic racism that has long affected Black people and Black city neighborhoods.
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Sam Stokes had barely written a word of poetry until one night in his prison cell, as much out of frustration as inspiration, he picked up a notebook and a pencil.
