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🗣️INNNNNTRODUCING our new board members and directors!We'll be dropping our highlights of the new OWC board all week long so check back and be sure to show these powerhouse leaders love in the comment section.First up: ✨Laura Bellis✨Laura is a relentless community organizer, educator and mentor working across public health, education and local/state policy spaces. Within her first five years leading the Take Control Initiative, Laura has strategically scaled the team to incorporate a clinical quality improvement initiative, a post-secondary peer-health initiative, and incubate a statewide data collaborative, Metriarch. Prior to her work at Take Control, she taught English for five years at Nathan Hale Junior High. Laura is deeply involved in the Tulsa community. She has served on the City of Tulsa’s Human Rights Commission since 2017, serving as vice-chair in 2018, and a subsequent two years as chair. Since 2015, she has worked on the municipal level of policing policy as a founding member of both The United League for Social Action (TULSA) and Demanding A Just Tulsa. In March of 2020, Laura co-founded Save OurState: Oklahomans United, a grassroots effort focused on COVID-19 resources & policies. Laura has been recognized for her commitment to the community. In 2019, she received the Rev. Len Busch Social Justice Award from Langston University. The same year she was recognized as an Achiever Under 40 by the Oklahoma Journal of Record. In 2018 she was listed by NextGen Oklahoma as one of the NextGen Achievers Under 30. ... See MoreSee Less