Ohio is a community connection laboratory

In a new Medium post, Lynn Tramonte of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance wrote about the status of Ohio as a “national focus group” and “laboratory of connection.”

“I think the national narrative about Ohio—sparked and stoked by some so-called state ‘leaders’—needs some context. Ohio is not ‘fly-over country.’ We are ‘the heart of it all’ (our state shape is a Kindergartener’s shaky drawing of a heart). We may have a lot of problems, and a lot of people who continue to vote for corrupt and selfish politicians in gerrymandered districts, but we also have a lot of great people working to make this a better state. Just like the rest of the United States.”

Read more here.