Valerie Thompson is a native Toledoan and a graphic designer at ProMedica, but she's more than a graphic designer, she's the environmental designer at ProMedica. A position that marries art, graphic design, interior design, and community together. Learn more about it on this week's episode of The Rough Draft Diaries.

Since it began in 1988, TOLEDO EXCEL, a scholarship incentive program at The University of Toledo, has been striving to prepare underrepresented students for success in college. The story of Excel will be featured as our third story in our series for Black History Month.

On this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, we tell the story of Chuck Ealey's long and winding road to the College Football Hall. Especially long for someone who still holds the most consecutive wins by a quarterback in college football history.

To kick off our series of Black History Month programming we're starting at the Toledo Public Library system, highlighting the programming and organizing efforts the library makes to celebrate local and national African Americans.

Fletcher Word is a native of New York City and grew up in the Washington, DC area, but today we're talking about his contributions to his local Ohio community as Word is the owner and publisher of The Sojourner’s Truth, a weekly newspaper that serves the northwest Ohio area and brings its readers information about the local, state and national African-American community.

Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're talking to the executive director of ​Sylvania STEM Center, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit and Northwest Ohio's regional gathering place for STEM education and exploration. But it all started with a small elementary school robotics program and some Lego sets.

This year, the Rough Draft Diaries is taking a step back in time to learn about the history of the radio play. Tune in for this year's special but also our new radio play, The Shop Around the Corner, airing tonight on FM 91.

Today on The Rough Draft Diaries we're headed over to the oldest independent art gallery in the city of Toledo, 20 North Gallery.

Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we headed down to Bowling Green, Ohio to meet with DeAnte Shivers, the creator of TriggaMeals. It's a food business that began out of necessity but has grown into a love of feeding the people of his community.

Dream of Detroit combines community organizing with housing and land development to build a healthy community and empower a marginalized neighborhood on the Westside of Detroit. And we're talking about it here in the eastside of Toledo as Mark Crain, the CEO, joins this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries.