Dawn Arrington

Member, Board of Trustees

Term 2022-2025

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Dawn Arrington is a writer, community advocate and literacy advocate. In 2018, after  witnessing adult illiteracy first hand, she decided to take action and created Comics at  the Corner, a community focused project that seeks to put literacy, in the form of comic  books with African American main characters, in the hands of residents of the Buckeye Shaker, Woodland Hills, and Mt. Pleasant neighborhoods of Cleveland, OH.  

Dawn’s passion for the written word is a life long love affair that has spanned projects such as self-publishing a romance novel in 2006 and returning to school for a Masters in  English and Creative Writing. Dawn has been a guest blogger for the innovative  Sidewalks of Buckeye project and wrote the forward for the Inner City Hues art  installation “Marigolds of Buckeye” by photographer and Shooting w/o Bullets founder  Amanda King. The Buckeye Green Infrastructure Project, marries her love for poetry and  her community in a series of one stanza poem along Buckeye Road celebrating and  explaining the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s rain garden and underground  storm water detention system along Buckeye road on Cleveland’s east side.  

Dawn serves on several boards including Literary Cleveland and serves as the Place based Strategies Manager for ioby.org. Dawn is a wife and the mother of two spirited  children. With whatever spare time she has she tries to make the most of it with family,  friends, and whenever possible a really good book. 

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