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Harriet Applegate
Executive Secretary, North Shore AFL-CIO Federation of Labor

Michael Charney
Director, Ohio Youth Voices

Ruth Clevenger, board vice chair

Joyce Goldstein
Attorney, Goldstein Gragel LLC

Susan Helper, board secretary
Professor, Case Western Reserve University

Chris Howell
Professor, Oberlin College

Bakari Kitwana
Author, Why White Kids Love Rap, The Hip Hop Generation and The Rap on Gangsta Rap

Kamla Lewis
Director of Neighborhood Revitalization, City of Shaker Heights

Renuka Mayadev
Executive Director, Children’s Defense Fund of Ohio

David Megenhardt
Executive Secretary, United Labor Agency

Kirk Noden, board treasurer
Director, Ohio Organizing Collaborative

Seth Rosen, board chair
Vice President, Communication Workers of America, District 4

Pari Sabety
Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer, Antioch University

Baldemar Velásquez
Founder and President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee

Founding board members

Anne Hill
The Honorable C.J. Prentiss
John W. Ryan
Alvin L. Schorr
Mark Cassell, Ph.D.
John Corlett
Blaine Griffin