[Ohio-Talk] Link to join NFB of Cleveland Ohio, and the Mentoring and Outreach Committee Event at 7:00 PM tonight

Tue Feb 28 22:59:38 UTC 2023

National Organization of Blind Black Leaders in partnership with the Cleveland Chapter of the Ohio National Federation of the Blind

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?

Where: Ohio Zoom Hall

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