Senior Fellow, Community and Racial Equity

Zulma Zabala

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Zulma serves as Senior Fellow for Racial and Community Equity at The Center for Community Solutions. She leads organizational work with Racial Equity Lens and ensures that our policy work reaches our health and human services partners. Zulma is well-known for twenty-plus years as a Neighborhood Center Leader, much of that as Chief Executive Officer. She’s an Ubuntu Philosophy practitioner, evident in her relational leadership style, advocacy, and RDEIB work. Her greatest achievement includes leading the inception and completion of the Ubuntu Gathering Place, an urban park for collectivism in the Woodhill-Buckeye neighborhood. Zulma holds a Juris Doctor of Law and Master of Public Administration from Cleveland State University and a Bachelor of Arts from Rutgers University. She sits on many local boards: Saint Lukes Foundation, Starting Point, Assembly for the Arts, Cleveland Citywide Community Development, Equity in the Arts, and United Way Board’s Racial Equity Committee.

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Yes, people DO want to work: workforce development in Buckeye-Woodhill

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Housing Burden vs. Home Bliss: a chance for stability in Buckeye-Woodhill

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There is no Other anymore: our community engagement and racial equity work

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