[Ohio-Talk] Celebrate Black History Month with the Honorable, Peter Lawson Jones who is an attorney, business consultant, professional actor and elected Politician

[Suzanne Turner]

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

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