Ohio City | Community Organizing
Norma Polanco-Boyd is a District Community Affairs Officer for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Prior to the OCC, Norma served for six years as the executive director of a small economic development corporation on Chicago’s northwest side. Norma, who served in the Peace Corps in Central Asia, holds a Master’s Degree in Urban Planning and Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She and her husband moved to Cleveland from Chicago in 2005 and live in the Ohio City neighborhood. Norma is the exhausted mom of two little girls, but is also one of the founding members of the Ohio City Babysitting Co-op, the Near West Intergenerational School and the Near West Family Network. Norma is a past board member of Ohio City Inc., several Chicago boards and is a current board member of Birchwood School.
