Building digital inclusion with community engagement

Autumn Glover, is an urban planner passionate about the intersection of race, place, and health. She has worked at Ohio State and Wexner Medical Center for more than ten years in progressive leadership roles including strategic planning, community, and local government partnerships. Currently, she serves in a dual role with Wexner Medical Center and Partners Achieving Community Transformation (PACT). She leads multiple civic and community engagement projects for the medical center, including the development of a prevention-focused healthy community center and an enterprise-wide health equity and anti-racism strategy. She is a founding staff member of PACT, currently serving as President of the nearly ten-year-old nonprofit “community quarterback.”

PACT is a nonprofit focused on the disruption of intergenerational poverty and the creation of a mixed-income community through strategic program and project investments, with an emphasis on housing, education, economic impact, and health. She is responsible for the design and implementation of PACT’s award-winning community engagement process and the development of the PACT Blueprint for Community Investment. This work resulted in more than $220 million dollars of program and capital investments including $30 million in HUD Choice Neighborhoods Planning and Implementation grants.

She teaches in Ohio State’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs and serves the Columbus community as a board member and volunteer through a number of organizations. Autumn lives in Columbus with her husband and daughter.