Posted on 04/22/22 by Caitlin Johnson (she/her) in Health & Health Equity
[image:2] Years ago, Kim Foreman was in a meeting discussing the buzzword of the day: Sustainability. She looked around the room and realized all the people there were white. Kim, who worked for Cleveland-based Environmental Health Watch (EHW) thought to herself: Black people already know all about sustainability. “Our grandparents came up from the South and we had our own gardens.” Today, Kim is EHW’s Executive Director, a post she has held since 2016. Her history with the organization goes back much further. Stu Greenberg founded EHW in 1980 as a volunteer effort to educate Clevelanders about the health implications of hazardous... read more
Posted on 04/01/22 by Daniel Ortiz (he/him) in Democracy & Government
[image:1] Strong communities show up for each other. For Cleveland VOTES cofounders Erika Anthony and Crystal Bryant, that’s what democracy really comes down to: everyday people showing up for their neighbors. They founded the organization in... read more
Posted on 03/24/22 by Will Petrik (he/him) in Democracy & Government
[image:1] Former State Senator Ray Miller’s interest in media and Black newspapers started at an early age. He remembers his family moving to Columbus and all the kids in the neighborhood asking if he wanted to... read more
Posted on 03/16/22 by Tanisha Pruitt, PhD (she/her) in Education & Training
Cleveland charter school uses public dollars to fight union drive Teachers at Menlo Park Academy come to work every day to shape the minds and inspire the dreams of young Clevelanders. They are in the middle... read more
Posted on 03/14/22 by Will Petrik (he/him) in Revenue & Budget
By Will Petrik of Policy Matters Ohio and Katherine Ungar, J.D. with Children's Defense Fund of Ohio All of us, no matter what we look like or where we live, deserve to thrive and pursue... read more
Posted on 02/11/22 by Amanda Woodrum in Clean Energy + Green Jobs
Bishop Marcia Dinkins leads the charge with first-ever BLAC paper For most of the last century, the people of Appalachia’s Ohio River Valley powered the prosperity of this nation. What you might not know — because... read more
Posted on 02/03/22 by Caitlin Johnson (she/her) in Health & Health Equity
As a Black woman who lived her entire life in Cleveland, Yvonka Hall knows health is multidimensional. Where people live, their jobs, their housing, their education, their family situations — all have profound effects on... read more
Posted on 01/31/22 by Tanisha Pruitt, PhD (she/her) in Education & Training
School is a place where childhood happens. It’s not only where children learn basic skills, but where they're challenged and inspired. COVID-19 and the state’s legacy of inadequate and inequitable funding has upended school as... read more
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