Canopy Atlanta

In our first four years, we worked in seven communities, West End, Forest Park, Bankhead, South DeKalb, Lakewood Heights, Norcross, and Tri-Cities. Before that, we piloted the concept in Pittsburgh.

Canopy Atlanta collaborates with residents to tell stories about their communities, neighborhood by neighborhood. We redefine who journalism is by and for.

Our work has been featured in Columbia Journalism Review , Nieman Lab , ProPublica , WABE , Saporta Report , and others.

Genia is an Atlanta native who enjoys reading and spending time with family and friends. She came to Canopy Atlanta as a former Community Editorial Board Member and Fellow from the Bankhead edition. She is presently on the community engagement team. Prior to Canopy Atlanta, Genia worked as an operations manager for an insurance company.

As a senior editor, Heather leads the Cost of Living Project and provides editorial direction for the Atlanta Documenters program and Canopy Atlanta’s continued reporting. She’s been in journalism for more than a decade, most recently as senior editor at Atlanta magazine, where she wrote and edited longform features and special packages. Before that, she was a managing editor for seven years, including at a daily newspaper in Alabama. A first-generation college graduate who grew up housing insecure, Heather is interested in policy, affordability, and cyclical inequality. She lives in southwest Atlanta with her cat, Oswald; her dog, Tater Tot; and her husband, Sahil.