Cleveland Young Professional Announces Bid for Cuyahoga County Council Seat

Cleveland, OH—Young professionals of Northeast Ohio are quickly becoming recognized as leaders, and Stephanie Morales, a fresh face, is bidding for County Council, District 2 which includes Lakewood, Brookpark, and Wards 18 and 19 in the City of Cleveland. Morales, a 2000 graduate of John Marshall High School in Cleveland is running as an Independent.



Morales currently serves as the Director of Key Career Place at Cuyahoga Community College, and has worked with numerous Cuyahoga County residents in transition looking for job opportunities or who are interested in returning to school.



As a member of the County Council, Morales hopes to provide the needed expertise to create a best in class retraining program that assists unemployed Cuyahoga County residents in transition to enhance their education in emerging industries within Northeast Ohio, including Green Technologies, Health Care, and Information Technology. This will result in the redevelopment and retooling of the existing workforce and help attract new businesses and jobs to Cuyahoga County.



Morales is also the Founder and President of YoungProCleveland.com, working to increase the level of collaboration and engagement with the young professional community in Cleveland.

“Young Professionals have a vested interest in the outcome of county reform efforts, and it is imperative that they have a voice during this process. Part of any sustainable economic development plan for Northeast Ohio needs to include strategies for attracting and retaining young talent from local and national colleges and universities,” says Morales.



Recently, she served on the Hispanic Roundtable committee as an organizer for the first Latino community Candidates Night event in Northeast Ohio, which attracted over 400 members of the community and over 30 candidates running in national, state, and local elections.

“As a diverse community, it is ...