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Rachel Dissell (She/Her)

Rachel is the Community and Special Projects Editor for Signal Cleveland. She works with Cleveland Documenters and Signal staff to report those stories for wider understanding and accountability. She also serves as the contributing editor for The Marshall Project – Cleveland where she focuses on including residents’ voices in criminal justice reporting. Rachel has reported in Cleveland for more than two decades on stories that have changed laws, policies, hearts and minds. She was part of the team that helped launch Cleveland Documenters in 2020, and she was a John S. Knight Community Impact Fellow in 2021. Dissell is a two-time winner of the Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for narrative stories about teen dating violence and systemic failures with rape investigations.

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