Purple America is a national initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation to re-focus the American conversation to a civil, productive and respectful dialogue around our American shared values.
Values-in-Action Foundation empowers students and adults to build communities of kindness, caring and respect through programs that teach, promote, and provide skills and tools to enable individuals to make positive values-based decisions every day. To learn more about Project Love, our school-based, character-development initiative of Values-in-Action Foundation, visit www.viafdn.org
Peter Lawson Jones is an attorney and business consultant as well as a professional actor, voice-over artist and public speaker. Most recently, Jones served as a member of the Board of Cuyahoga County Commissioners, and for three of those years as its president. He was only the fourth African-American ever elected county commissioner in the history of the state of Ohio. Jones previously served two and one-half terms in the Ohio House of Representatives, where he was the ranking member of the House Finance and Appropriations Committee and second vice president of the Ohio Legislative Black Caucus. He is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School.
Peter Lawson Jones
Cleveland, Ohio
