Cassie Haynes is the co-founder and co-executive director of Resolve Philly. In 2018, she joined Jean Friedman-Rudovsky, who was leading the collaborative reporting project Broke in Philly, to grow and scale the collaborative for financial sustainability.

With past careers for the City of Philadelphia, nonprofits like the Women’s Flat Track Derby Association, and numerous startup companies, Haynes has experienced the trials and tribulations of collaboration.

We caught up with Haynes to hear about what makes Resolve Philly work — and why cities should look to collaborative journalism for inspiration.