Welcome to our pilot episode of the "Shaker Heights...Experiences may vary" hosted by former Shaker residents; Eric Green and Gabriel Tolliver discussing Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity by former Shaker resident; Laura Meckler. The Shaker Heights; "experiences will vary" will feature Shaker residents past and present talking about their hometown and events that shaped them.

A suburb of Cleveland, Ohio - Shaker is a city known for its groundbreaking integration efforts as well being the home to notable people such as; Paul Newman, Gerald Levert, comedians David Wain, Molly Shannon and Kym Whitley, the rappers Machine Gun Kelly and Kid Cudi, and Gary Cohn, a former director of the U.S. National Economic Council. Shaker Heights High School counts among its graduates the novelist Celeste Ng and the Los Angeles Times journalist Jamil Smith, and journalists/writers; Susan Orlean, Andy Borowitz, and Kathryn Schulz to name a few.