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Samira Malone, 26
NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING PROJECT COORDINATOR, MIDTOWN CLEVELAND INC.
Samira Malone once thought she'd change the world by going into constitutional law.
Instead, she's reshaping the city around her.
Malone is a neighborhood planning project coordinator at MidTown Cleveland Inc., a nonprofit organization that serves a swath of the East Side. Her work touches everything from a tree-planting initiative to public art, including an effort to document graffiti inside the vacant Warner & Swasey Co. complex at East 55th Street and Carnegie Avenue.
She grew up in the city's Central neighborhood with the language of urban planning in her ears. Her mother, Carol, studied planning in college but ultimately became a public school teacher...