Where to find Dallas Free Press this week: Sept. 30-Oct. 1

By Keri Mitchell|Published On: September 30, 2024|Categories: Uncategorized|

Good afternoon! Here’s what the Dallas Free Press team is working on and where we’ll be this week.

Gloria Ardilla and Brenda Hernandez took Dallas Free Press’ pop-up newsrooms to last week’s Home Improvement Fair hosted by Frazier Revitalization. Photo by Jeffrey Ruiz

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Brenda Hernandez will attend the groundbreaking for Builder’s of Hope’s Trinity West Villas on Tuesday, Oct. 1, to learn about the project and its significance to the community.

Brenda joins the Bertrand Neighborhood Association monthly meeting on Thursday, Oct. 3, to listen to residents’ updates on their work to obtain speed bumps to reduce decade-long speeding issues. Hernandez will interview Bertrand residents to gain insights on how the speeding impacts their day-to-day lives.

Sujata Dand will follow up on how Trinity Park Conservancy is living up to its promise to help residents with their property taxes as they work to raise money for a new park.

What else do we need to follow-up on? Let us know.

Dallas Documenters at public meetings

Our Dallas Documenters will cover several public meetings this week:

Tekisha Hobbs will document the South Dallas/Fair Park Opportunity Fund Board meeting on Thursday. Other Documenters will be assigned to the DHA Housing Solutions for North Texas Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday and the Community Development Commission on Thursday.

Scan our Documenters’ notes from recent public meetings, including the Dallas ISD Sept. 12 Board Briefing and Dallas City Council’s Sept. 10 Community Police Oversight Board meeting.

Dallas Free Press in our neighborhoods

Our pop-up newsroom is making the rounds in West Dallas and South Dallas this week.

On Tuesday, Jeffrey Ruiz and Shawana Carter will be at South Dallas’ Hispanic Heritage Festival. Then Brenda and Jeffrey will head to West Dallas Tuesday evening for National Night Out. On Saturday, Brenda and Gloria Ardilla join West Dallas Women of Strength’s 2nd Annual Fight Cancer Walk.

Stop by the pop-up newsroom at any of these events to connect with our team, share community concerns and good news with our reporters, and sign up for our free texts and emails that keep neighbors in the know.

About the Author: Keri Mitchell

Keri Mitchell has spent 20+ years as a community journalist, including 15 years dedicated to community and civic journalism at Dallas’ Advocate magazines. She launched Dallas Free Press in early 2020 with the belief that all neighborhoods deserve reporting and storytelling that values their community and holds leaders accountable. Mitchell says she is energized by “knowing our work is making an impact — listening to people, telling their stories with strong narratives paired with compelling data that leads to change. I also love spending time in our neighborhoods and with our neighbors, learning from them and working to determine how journalism can be part of the solution to their challenges.” Mitchell is proud to be the winner of multiple awards during her journalism career including: Finalist in Magazine Feature Reporting (2018) and Finalist in Magazine Investigative Reporting (2017) from Hugh Aynesworth Excellence in Journalism, Best Feature Story (2011) from Texas Community Newspaper Association and Best Magazine Feature (2011) from Dallas Bar Association Philbin Awards.

Areas of Expertise:

local government, education, civic issues, investigative and enterprise reporting

Location Expertise:

Dallas, Texas

Official Title:

Founder + executive director

Email Address:

keri@dallasfreepress.com