Edgewater Hill | Youth and Families
Laura Schaefer is eager to help people connect and feel supported. Through encouragement, planning events, supporting budding positive initiatives, she embraces a grassroots approach to bringing people together. After teaching and working abroad, she returned to Cleveland and helped launch Edgewater Hill University. The University offers lifelong learning opportunities at low or no cost utilizing the skills and talents of people from the community. This model inspires Laura because it allows neighbors to work together, strengthen relations, and meet new people, as well as learn and share experiences. Additionally, through neighborhood cleanups, restaurant crawls, gardening, and exercise, new networks will be fostered within her community. Her long term goal is to establish similar connections to people throughout Cleveland to promote community engagement and support cross-cultural and inter-generational communication. Laura’s educational degrees are in graphic design, international education and holistic wellness.
