[NFBNJ] Fwd: [State-Affiliate-Leadership-List] Celebrate Black History Month with the Honorable, Peter Lawson Jones who is an attorney, business consultant, professional actor and elected Politician

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From: Suzanne Turner via State-Affiliate-Leadership-List <
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Date: Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 7:23 PM
Subject: [State-Affiliate-Leadership-List] Celebrate Black History Month
with the Honorable, Peter Lawson Jones who is an attorney, business
consultant, professional actor and elected Politician
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NOBBL, Mentoring and Outreach Working Group

And the National Federation of the Blind of Ohio, Cleveland Chapter

Sit down with the Honorable Peter Lawson Jones for a conversation on
advocacy, public speaking and his acting career.

Peter Lawson Jones is an attorney, business consultant, professional actor
and master of ceremonies, dramatist and former elected official.

>From February 2002, through December 2010, Jones, a graduate of Harvard
College (magna cum laude in Government) and Harvard Law School, was a
member of the Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners, and its president for
three of those years. He previously served two and one-half terms in the
Ohio House of Representatives, where he was the ranking member of the House
Finance and Appropriations Committee and second vice president of the Ohio
Legislative Black Caucus.  Jones was formerly the Vice Mayor and a
Councilman in the City of Shaker Heights, Ohio.

Jones, a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actor’s Equity as well as an acting
instructor, has appeared in well over twenty films (in theaters now, *A Man
Called *Otto, *White** Boy Rick*, *Alex Cross*, *The Assassin’s Code*,
*Starve*), on network television (NBC’s *Chicago Fire* and ABC’s *Detroit
1-8-7*), on stages throughout Northeast Ohio.  He received the 2016 Indie
Gathering International Film Festival Best Ohio Supporting Actor Award for
his work in *How to Change the World*. Jones’s drama, *The Family Line*,
has been successfully produced at Karamu House, Harvard University and Ohio
University.  His second play, *The Bloodless Jungle*, has enjoyed two full
productions at Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.  *Land of Cleve*,
an arts and culture blog, ranked the second production as one of the best
in Northeast Ohio in 2017.  The play has enjoyed staged readings at the
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Dallas Convention Center, the
National Black Theatre Festival, Duquesne University and in Harlem.  His
most recent work, *The Phoenix Society*, enjoyed a successful premiere at
Playwrights Local in Cleveland earlier this year.  The drama was
commissioned by the Life Exchange Center, a Cleveland nonprofit that
assists those in recovery from mental health and substance abuse
challenges.

Jones and his spouse Lisa are the proud parents of three children: Ryan
Charles, Leah Danielle and Evan Cooke.

The Cleveland Chapter is quite fond of Peter and want to share  him with
you!

So, all are invited, as he will talk to us about how to advocate in front
of elected officials, the importance of articulating your message and how
he catapult from a successful politician to a well-known actor.

Did I mention that  his father Charles was legally blind?

Join us on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM EST. for this exciting
opportunity.

Thanks goes out to the Ohio Community of Faith Division for sharing their
space.

Where: Ohio Zoom Hall

https://zoom.us/j/4081850851

Meeting ID: 408 185 0851

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