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Michelle Unangst brings 20 years of nonprofit experience
This month, Michelle Unangst joined Policy Matters Ohio as the organization’s new development director after a long career supporting nonprofit organizations throughout Northeast Ohio.
Unangst provided development support for Policy Matters’ close partner, Northern Ohioans for Budget Legislation Equality (NOBLE), as well as neighborhood.
In August 1996, my life was forever changed by this thing called “kinship care.”
I was 7 years old. My mother, who was battling drug addiction at the time, ended up in prison. My father was absent. With nowhere else to go, my two brothers and I packed our bags and moved to Ohio to live with our grandparents. I did not know what “kinship care” was. All I knew was that unlike everyone else at school who went home to their mom and dad, I went home to my grandparents. Though my grandparents never complained, I knew that we struggled. I had to overcome so many obstacles with the complexities of this arrangement. I often felt alone, like I was the only kid in the world who lived with their grandparents.
Policy Matters Ohio, a non-profit policy research institute, creates a more vibrant, equitable, sustainable and inclusive Ohio through research, strategic communications, coalition building and policy advocacy.