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TRI-C APPOINTS AS NEW INDIA PIERCE LEE EXECUTIVE VP, CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER

KIM WOODFORD HELPS THE UNDERSERVED FIND JOY IN NATURE

Shelley M. Shockley

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Helps The Underserved Find Joy In Nature

Living on the shores of Lake Erie will challenge your love for the outdoors when the temperatures begin to dip from November - March and the days become shorter The breeze you embrace in July now sends chills from your toes to your forehead. For those in the Black and brown communities, the resistance is stronger. Recent statistics from the Cleveland Metroparks show an overall increase in visitors in these communities.

Kimberly Woodford, the founder of Journey On Yonder (JOY), is working to move even more members of the Black and Brown communities from hibernators to hikers.

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NASA's John H. Glenn Research Center in Cleveland has played a pivotal role in our country's advancements in aeronautics and space exploration since its inception in 1941. The Center was established as a research laboratory for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) focusing on aircraft engine research.

As the Director, Center Operations Directorate at NASA's Glenn Research Center, Robyn Gordon is an integral part of this larger mission. As her biographical sketch notes, “she manages organizational objectives, direction, resource allocation, strategic initiatives, and institutional functions” to enable NASA's programs.

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