Executive Leadership

Angela Newman-White, Executive Director of First Year Cleveland

With two decades working in maternal and infant health, and with an intimate knowledge of the local landscape, Mrs. Newman-White has the rare combination of skills and passion to take First Year Cleveland to the next stage of impact.

Mrs. Newman-White began her public health career with the Cleveland Department of Health’s MomsFirst program in 2004 as a Case Manager. In 2005, she joined the administrative office  as Program Administrator and then Deputy Director before moving on to the Cuyahoga County Board of Health, as a Grant Supervisor. Under her leadership, she established and implemented numerous initiatives to address racial disparities in maternal and child health. Notably, Mrs. Newman-White helped launch One Life, One Voice, One Community, a conference dedicated to connecting families to information and resources to prevent infant mortality which later became One Community, a resident led initiative driving change at zip code level.

She was a key partner in helping launch First Year Cleveland in 2015 and is known for elevating the voices of community residents at every opportunity. She served as part of the 19-member design team that helped reshape FYC’s strategic priorities and ultimately led to shifting the initiative from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine to the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School for Applied Social Sciences.

Mrs. Newman-White holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Bowling Green State University and a master’s degree in Sociology from Cleveland State University. Among many local and state boards and collaboratives, since 2019 she has served on the Board of Directors for CityMatCH and the Cuyahoga County Children and Family Services Advisory Board.