Stockyard | Community Organizing
Kaela Geschke is a program developer with a passion for community development and a desire to contribute to the development of healthy neighborhoods. She connects artists, students, people experiencing homelessness and other neighborhood stakeholders as the community organizer for Campus District Inc. She practices network centric principles as she contributes to neighbor-led artistic placemaking with City Repair Cleveland, the Sustainable Cleveland Vital Neighborhoods Committee, and the Neighborhood Connections Grantmaking Committee. Kaela is dedicated to engaging people by tapping into their own agency for creating healthy, strong communities. She organized a west side Neighbor Network Night where neighbors come together to discuss what is important to them, what they have to offer their community, and what their community has to offer them. Kaela earned a Master’s degree in Community Development and Social Justice from Loyola University and a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Mercyhurst University.
