Chief Executive Officer

Emily Campbell

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Emily Campbell serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer for The Center for Community Solutions, a nonpartisan nonprofit policy and research think tank focused on health, social, and economic conditions. Campbell previously worked for a U.S. Congressman, and she has consulted with numerous nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies to provide data and public policy decision support. Her work on poverty has appeared in every major newspaper in Ohio and she has been interviewed by a wide variety of media outlets including The Economist, The New York Times, ESPN.com, MSNBC, and NPR. She serves on the Board of United Way of Greater Cleveland, the steering committee of First Year Cleveland, and several other Boards and committees in Cleveland and beyond. She was recently named one of Cleveland’s “Power 150” and a Woman of Note by Crain’s Cleveland Business. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and a Master of Arts in Political Science from Case Western Reserve University.

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Emily Campbell

Article

Three new board members for 2026

Emily Campbell
February 2, 2026
Article

5 reasons I'm starting 2026 with cautious optimism

Emily Campbell
January 5, 2026
Medicaid
Article

Do I meet Medicaid's new work requirements?

Emily Campbell
December 21, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

SNAP uncertainty continues even with a potential end to the shutdown

Emily Campbell
November 10, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Four early lessons from the local response to the SNAP lapse

Emily Campbell
November 3, 2025
Article

Remembering Gerda Freedheim  

Emily Campbell
September 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Events

Decoding the chaos: A practical playbook for policy and funding threats

Emily Campbell
April 24, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Elimination of HIV prevention in CDC would reverse years of progress

Emily Campbell
March 24, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Memo issued by the White House puts funding for every nonprofit at risk (again)

Emily Campbell
February 10, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Freeze? Unfreeze? Thaw? Advocacy works. So does litigation.

Emily Campbell
January 29, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Remembering Bryan Jones, HIV survivor and advocate

Emily Campbell
January 20, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Collective advocacy will grow along with the Cuyahoga Human Services Chamber

Emily Campbell
December 2, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

New Human Services Chamber launching in December

Emily Campbell
November 17, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Staying nonpartisan when everyone is talking about the upcoming election

Emily Campbell
October 21, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Redlining and voter turnout

Emily Campbell
October 14, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Cleveland’s population is steady, older adult poverty continues to grow

Emily Campbell
September 16, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Policy innovation could encourage young people to work while protecting SNAP benefits

Emily Campbell
September 3, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Cleveland Leadership Center: A familiar face in a new chair

Emily Campbell
February 26, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Emily Campbell at the City Club: 5 Things about poverty in Cleveland

Emily Campbell
February 5, 2024
Article

New staff and promotions at Community Solutions

Emily Campbell
January 8, 2024
Article

5 Things coming from Community Solutions in 2024

Emily Campbell
January 2, 2024
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

What is the status of Ohio women in 2023?

Emily Campbell
December 11, 2023
Article

How can we lift an Invisible Child out of poverty?

Emily Campbell
March 27, 2023
Article

Some surprising stats for Hispanic Heritage Month

Emily Campbell
October 10, 2022
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Poverty data for 2016-2020 shows mixed results for Cleveland and Cuyahoga County

Emily Campbell
March 21, 2022
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Official Poverty Calculations fail to capture families’ true economic situations

Emily Campbell
February 28, 2022
Poverty & Safety Net
Research

Policy Change Can Reduce Benefit Cliffs and Incentivize Work

Emily Campbell
February 22, 2022
Article

Children's Health Stakeholder Roundtables

Emily Campbell
February 18, 2022
Article

Community Solutions Consulting: 2021 in review

Emily Campbell
January 10, 2022
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

New Data Shows Ohio Children at Lowest Poverty Rate in 20 Years

Emily Campbell
January 3, 2022
Article

When Will We Get Good Data on 2020?

Emily Campbell
November 15, 2021
Article

Why Are Some Ohioans Still Resisting Vaccination?

Emily Campbell
August 23, 2021
Article

Learn and Share! Lorain County Racial Equity Data

Emily Campbell
July 28, 2021
Article

Racial Disparities in Lorain County

Emily Campbell
July 21, 2021
Research

Cuyahoga County Business Survey Results

Emily Campbell
July 13, 2021
Poverty & Safety Net
Research

Temporary Emergency Hunger Assistance is Buoying Ohio’s Economy

Emily Campbell
June 1, 2021
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Mixed results for health and human service levies across the state

Emily Campbell
May 17, 2021
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Benefit cliff webinar questions and answers

Emily Campbell
March 29, 2021
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

The COVID recession: A tale of two recoveries

Emily Campbell
March 8, 2021
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Racial disparities extend to unemployment in Ohio

Emily Campbell
January 4, 2021
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Health and human service levies received bi-partisan support across the state

Emily Campbell
November 5, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Ohio working families face benefit cliffs and plateaus

Emily Campbell
October 26, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Cleveland is now the poorest big city in the country

Emily Campbell
September 21, 2020
Article

Survey: How has COVID-19 disrupted your agency?

Emily Campbell
August 31, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

17 Counties Have Health and Social Services Levies on the Primary Ballot

Emily Campbell
March 2, 2020
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Poverty Speaks 2019: Racial Disparities

Emily Campbell
November 18, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Nearly half of all Ohio counties have a health or social service levy on the ballot

Emily Campbell
November 4, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Cleveland ranks 1-2-3 in poverty

Emily Campbell
September 30, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

What helps poor families? A look at new census data

Emily Campbell
September 16, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Poverty Speaks 2019: Getting help

Emily Campbell
September 9, 2019
Article

New census numbers, what we’re keeping an eye on

Emily Campbell
September 3, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Research

Poverty Speaks 2019: Survey of low-income residents in Cuyahoga County

Emily Campbell
August 7, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Poverty Speaks 2019: Making tough choices

Emily Campbell
August 7, 2019
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Poverty Speaks 2019: Climbing out of poverty

Emily Campbell
August 7, 2019
Medicaid
Research

The $44,000 Question: Examining Disengaged Youth in Cuyahoga County

Emily Campbell
December 3, 2018
Poverty & Safety Net
Article

Cleveland is dead last in child poverty

Emily Campbell
September 17, 2018
Research

Common Ground: How Do We Quantify Community Need?

Emily Campbell
March 20, 2017
Poverty & Safety Net
Public testimony

Five veto asks for Governor DeWine

Community Solutions Team
June 26, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Public testimony

Conference Committee recommendations

Community Solutions Team
June 17, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Public testimony

Targeted tax credits for families incentivize work while improving child wellbeing

Community Solutions Team
May 14, 2025
Poverty & Safety Net
Public testimony

HB 96 testimony: Refundable child tax credit

Community Solutions Team
February 26, 2025
Article

Welcome Philip Myers!

June 10, 2024
Article

How it’s made: 2023 Ohio State Legislative District Fact Sheets

Community Solutions Team
March 6, 2023