Leah D. Hudnall

Leah D. Hudnall serves as an Assistant Professor of Practice at the College of Education and Public Affairs at Cleveland State University. She is a graduate of the Cleveland School of the Arts, and earned a Bachelor of Arts in communication and culture from Howard University, and a Master of Arts in nonprofit administration from John Carroll University. She began her career working at the KeyBank Foundation and has also worked at the Saint Luke’s Foundation, the George Gund Foundation and the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office. In 2020 she founded The Legacy Perspective, a civic consulting firm that offers project management, community engagement and communications services to its client partners. She currently serves on the boards of Birthing Beautiful Communities, The Land, and Cleveland VOTES. She lives on the southeast side of Cleveland with her husband and two children, the oldest of whom is a CMSD student.