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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>National Organization of Blind Black Leaders in partnership with the Cleveland Chapter of the Ohio National Federation of the Blind<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Sit down with the Honorable Peter Lawson Jones for a conversation on advocacy, public speaking and his acting career.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Peter Lawson Jones is an attorney, business consultant, professional actor and master of ceremonies, dramatist and former elected official.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoBodyText><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>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, <i>A Man Called </i>Otto, <i>White</i><i> Boy Rick</i>, <i>Alex Cross</i>, <i>The Assassin’s Code</i>, <i>Starve</i>), on network television (NBC’s <i>Chicago Fire</i> and ABC’s <i>Detroit 1-8-7</i>), on stages throughout Northeast Ohio. He received the 2016 Indie Gathering International Film Festival Best Ohio Supporting Actor Award for his work in <i>How to Change the World</i>. Jones’s drama, <i>The Family Line</i>, has been successfully produced at Karamu House, Harvard University and Ohio University. His second play, <i>The Bloodless Jungle</i>, has enjoyed two full productions at Ensemble Theatre in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. <i>Land of Cleve</i>, 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, <i>The Phoenix Society</i>, 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. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Jones and his spouse Lisa are the proud parents of three children: Ryan Charles, Leah Danielle and Evan Cooke.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>The Cleveland Chapter is quite fond of Peter and want to share him with you!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Did I mention that his father Charles was legally blind?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Join us on Tuesday, February 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM EST. for this exciting opportunity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'>Thanks goes out to the Ohio Community of Faith Division for sharing their space.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Where: Ohio Zoom 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