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PDLB Leadership
Board Members
Edwin Hubbard
Nicole Beck
Board Vice President,
Executive Director of NAACP of Greater Cleveland
Board Member,
Manager, Project Management at Swagelok Corp.
Arielle H. Sheftall, Ph.D
Board Member,
Ph.D, Associate Professor at Univ. of Rochester Medical Center, Dept. of Psychiatry
Jerrod Shakir
Board Member,
Grassroots Organizer
Meet The Team
How to make cities better with
Hip-Hop and Poetry
Archie Green is a rapper and a producer who uses hip-hop to de-stigmatize mental illness in black and brown communities.
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It’s a cause he has championed after facing his own challenges with depression, and a message that Green’s mental health awareness initiative, Peel Dem Layers Back, works to spread in Cleveland, Ohio.
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