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Ricardo Reinoso

Cleveland | Community Organizing

Ricardo

Ricardo Reinoso has a passion for building and empowering communities of all sizes. He has dedicated his life to inspiring people in a multitude of capacities from community engagement and neighborhood revitalization to assisting young immigrants in their pursuit of becoming actively engaged citizens. Since moving to Cleveland in 2017, he has been a regular on the Host Committee at EDWINS Restaurant & Leadership Institute, and is currently working on launching his own non-profit and developing “The Cleveland Dinners”, a dinner dialogue series of 100 dinners on one night to discuss critical social issues such as race and racism. He also hosts Who ART Thou, a podcast on the local creative economy. Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Peruvian immigrants, Ricardo is a former disc jockey and MC, and a proud Eagle Scout fluent in both Spanish and French.