Nicky Grusenmeyer
Nicky Grusenmeyer is a Cleveland native and junior at Cleveland State University. She is a reporter and ad manager for the CSU student newspaper, the Cleveland Stater. She has shadowed and worked closely with the Channel 5 news staff. She specializes in science writing, with an emphasis on environmental issues.
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Northeast Ohio is changing. These are the people shaping its future. Our latest installment.
Northeast Ohio is changing. These are the people shaping its future. Our latest installment.
Northeast Ohio is changing. These are the people shaping its future. Our latest installment.
"We kept in touch, and after that all finished, I decided not to stay in New Zealand. I just wanted to get back home."
As the Cleveland International Film Festival prepares the details for a streaming version of this year’s canceled event, we spoke with four filmmakers proud to have been chosen for #CIFF44.
"And I was mentioning how I had this sort of dilemma where I was pursuing voice performance but also really interested in this other thing and thinking I might want to pursue that, but not sure what to do. And they were like you should just do it."
Events are being canceled or rescheduled left and right. Offices are closing, and people are working from home and sheltering in place. We caught up with five Cleveland organizations to see how the coronavirus crisis is affecting their efforts to serve the public.
"And if you’re by the ocean, I mentioned to my wife, it would be awesome to scuba dive, I always dreamed about that as a kid. And she said, why don't you?"
"He was in this group, and I heard samples through what he posted on Facebook. And I thought I’ve always wanted to be in a band that sounds like this."
"Through high school, whenever I just needed some space, that’s where I would go … to the woods."
"I love helping people, and that’s what my job consisted of. I was more thinking about helping people."
"My parents would hand me money, I would shoot through the neighbors’ back yard, cut through their yard to go to the railroad station and take the train into the city to go see shows by myself."
"His death was so shocking, but at the same time, it opened up my whole worldview to this other dimension. That was honestly the thing that kept me going."
"I want to be a good manager. Just to be for everybody at work, treat everybody equally."
"I thought about going back to school for awhile, but I allowed life to get in the way and do other things."
Orchid Mania is in full bloom once again in University Circle.
"I think if you really want something and try hard and work—I had to work 60 to 70 hours a week my first couple years—but hard work pays off."
"I didn’t really think much of it for a long time, but I decided to start taking it seriously and learn what it means to be a Christian first around my junior year of high school."
"It wasn’t until college that I decided to take guitar lessons. It was ironic that all the stuff I taught myself was technically correct."
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