Cleveland | Community Organizing
Marissa Williams is passionate about building strong, successful and sustainable communities. She has worked with community development corporations, Foundations and other nonprofits in Northeast Ohio, consistently advocating for community engagement in positive social change on issues ranging from vacant property and demolition, to environmental sustainability, to college access. Marissa is the Graduate Support Manager at NLDP. A lifelong advocate for animal welfare, Marissa volunteers with Cleveland Animal Care and Control handling dogs at events and bringing awareness to the adoption program. She hopes to expand her role with the events team and start an educational program to help community members understand the basic issues of responsible pet ownership and improve community knowledge about safety around animals. Marissa holds an MSSA from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University and a BA in Sociology from Willamette University in Salem, OR.
