Commission on Black Women and Girls
Commission on Black Women and Girls
Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025
4:30 p.m. — 6:30 p.m. EST
601 Lakeside Ave E Cleveland, OH 44114 (Directions)
Cleveland City Hall, Mercedes Cotner Room 217 (or join on on Microsoft Teams or by watching TV20)
Note: The first half-hour of this meeting seems to be set aside for networking. Your coverage of the meeting begins when they call the formal meeting to order, not any networking. The formal meeting may begin closer to 5 p.m., but we wanted to make sure you knew the full schedule in case they start the formal meeting early.
In February 2024, Mayor Justin Bibb swore in the first members of the Commission on Black Women and Girls – a commission established by City Council nearly two years earlier.
The commission aims to explore how the city can improve the quality of life for Black women and girls. A 2020 City Lan Livable Index study placed Cleveland among the worst cities for Black women.
Commission members:
- Chair: Kathryn Hall, vice president of Diversity and Inclusion, JACK Entertainment
- Vice Chair: Dr. Linda Bradley, Women’s Health Institute, Cleveland Clinic
- Eugenia Cash, commission secretary, Social Support Services director, City of Cleveland
- Rev. Dr. Lisa Maxine Goods, senior pastor, Shiloh Baptist Church
- Taneisha Fair, associate, Racial Equity, The Center for Community Solutions
- Stephanie Howse-Jones, Cleveland City Council Ward 7
- Shameka Jones-Taylor, chief operating officer, Saint Martin de Porres High School
- Anastasia Sakairoun, student, Cleveland State University College of Law
- Dameyonna Willis, founder and executive director, Queen IAM
- Lita-Marie Wills, commissioner of Health Equity and Social Justice, City of Cleveland
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“I am a Documenter trained to monitor public meetings in the public interest. My work is made publicly available in collaboration with Signal Cleveland’s Cleveland Documenters program. For more information visit cleveland.documenters.org/.“
NOTE: You can attend the meeting only in person or by joining remotely at the meeting time via Microsoft Teams. It may be helpful for your coverage to record audio from the meeting with your phone or a recording device, but it is not a requirement of the assignment. You may need to share your name and that you’re a Cleveland Documenter to be admitted on Microsoft Teams.
Note: A meeting flyer says the meeting will also be broadcast on Cleveland’s TV20. We are not sure if that means it will be available on YouTube — and thus meaning a recording may be available afterward. Because the commission is trying out this option, we still recommend trying the Teams link if you’ll attend remotely. The information for TV20 is also included below, and if you find that the meeting is streamed in any of those places, feel free to use that.
Agenda: We’ll update with an agenda when it’s available. The meeting flyer says a presentation on Project Noir is expected.
Attending in person?
We add two extra hours ($36) to assignments for attending in person. Bring a photo ID if you do.
Watching remotely? Join here: Here is the Microsoft Teams link and the necessary meeting ID and password if needed:
Meeting ID: 223 728 706 291 Passcode: BPFCxV
You may also catch livestreams on TV2O’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/@tv20videos/streams
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ClevelandTV20/live_videos
On TV20 website: https://www.clevelandohio.gov/city-hall/office-mayor/tv20
Find past Documenters coverage of this commission here: https://cleveland.documenters.org/reporting/?agency=1219
Check the source website for additional information
Reporting
Edited and summarized by the Cleveland - OH Documenters Team
Panel reviews survey looking at concerns of African American women
Agency Information
Commission on Black Women and Girls
From the City of Cleveland website:
“Cleveland recently ranked the worst city in America for Black women, who are the backbone of our communities. Mayor Bibb is proud to launch the Cleveland Commission on Black Women and Girls to create opportunities and improve quality of life for Black women and girls. The newly formed Commission will advocate, initiate and champion programs and legislation to improve outcomes for Black women and girls, and their families and communities.”
Learn more about the commission: https://signalcleveland.org/commission-created-to-improve-quality-of-life-of-black-women-and-girls-officially-launches/