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Documenter Kendal Kuneman says program provides Detroiters with important information.
Detroit Documenter Kendal Kuneman heard about the program through a friend who thought she’d be interested in serving Detroiters. Kuneman previously worked as a surveyor in 2014 with Loveland Technologies, where she documented Detroit foreclosures.
“We went out every single day and went around the entire city of Detroit in many different neighborhoods, and we were documenting … occupied homes that were currently going through the Wayne County foreclosure process and so with the information that we gathered, we were able to share that information with a larger community of people,” Kuneman says.
Detroit Documenter Ada Nicole Smith has been part of the program since 2019.
Ada Nicole Smith is a native Detroiter who has been a part of the Detroit Documenters program since 2019. As a Documenter, she’s been live-tweeting and taking notes of public meetings to make that information readily available for reporters and citizens to access.
Smith says that when she first heard about the program, it felt like a natural fit. “I’m excited about some of the changes that were happening and taking place here in the city. I am a counselor by education, but I have always been very civic-minded,” she says.