Member, Board of Trustees
Term 2022-2025
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.