The GetInvolved2Day.com website was established as a temporary clearinghouse for a variety of nonpartisan information, resources and human-interest features for the Ohio electorate around the election process. All content is intended to serve as educational, informative and inspirational to the reader and not intended to endorse any political party, candidate or ideology and should not be treated as such. The concept of the website was formed as part of an Ohio Impact Project by the following members of the Leadership Ohio Class of 2020: Donald L. Bush, Christian Campbell, Paul Koomar, Bhuwan Pyakurel and Anne Trinh.
Donald L. Bush, Employee Relations Advisor, Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley
Donald Bush is a skilled public speaker, trainer, facilitator, and coach with a passion for helping individuals strengthen, enhance, and empower their personal selves. As a lifelong learner, Donald studied Early Childhood Education at Sinclair Community College, and earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Organizational Management from Wilberforce University. He also holds certifications in several areas, most recently earning Adult Mental Health First Aid and Crime Prevention Specialist certifications.
Donald currently serves as the Employee Relations Advisor for Goodwill Easterseals Miami Valley. In this role, Donald has the opportunity to coach, motivate, and counsel more than 1,200 employees, of which more than 50% have a disclosed disability. He also connects the employees to appropriate in-house and area resources in an effort to help them grow, maintain active employment, have their basic needs met, and engage with full inclusion in the life of the community.
Donald is also an enthusiastic and passionate volunteer for several organizations throughout the Dayton community in the areas of Social Justice, the Arts, Education, and Youth Outreach. He volunteers with the Dayton Police Department, The Victoria Theatre Association and the Performing Arts, ThinkTV (PBS), Leadership Dayton, and the City of Dayton and its neighborhoods.
Christian Campbell, Infrastructure and Support Services Manager, Columbus City Schools
Campbell is the Infrastructure and Support Services Manager for the Columbus City School district, where he has served the students and staff for the past 23 years. During his tenure, Campbell has helped oversee the growth of educational technology in the district from a single computer in the library, to the 50,000 plus devices connecting the students to a world of possibilities today. In his current role, Campbell oversees a hard working team of 45 supporting the servers, network, phones, and end point computing devices in 120 plus school and admin buildings in the district.
Campbell is passionate about serving and advocating for public school education. He also strives to be a valuable member of his community. Whether it is helping out with his son’s cub scout pack or hosting a weekly movie night during the summer for the families in his neighborhood, he truly enjoys the sense of community.
Campbell is a native of Columbus, Ohio and currently lives in Worthington, Ohio with his wife Julie, 6th grade daughter Annie and 4th grade son Henry.
Paul Koomar, Mayor, City of Bay Village
Paul Koomar was sworn in as Mayor of Bay Village on January 1, 2017. Koomar has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He started his professional career in public accounting as a Certified Public Accountant and then used his business skills in management at Cleveland Clinic.
Koomar is a board member of the Cuyahoga County Emergency Services Advisory Board (CCESAB) and an alternate for the Northeastern Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) as well as a member of the Westshore Council of Governments (COG). He was elected by the Cuyahoga County Mayors to serve on the District One Public Works Integrating Committee (DOPWIC). As part of DOPWIC he also is a member of the Small Government Subcommittee and the Natural Resources Assistance Council (NRAC).
In 2017, he worked collaboratively with the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission to complete a Master Plan for Bay Village and with the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency (NOACA) to complete a connectivity study. The focus of the study was to improve pedestrian and biking access in the city parks / town center and the adjoining Cleveland Metroparks Huntington Reservation. A strategy was developed to identify external funding for implementing these plans. The creation of a full time position allowed the city to execute on grant opportunities and economic development initiatives.
Planning has continued, most recently with an overlay zoning project to update the city’s commercial and retail zoning code. The Stay in Bay initiative focused on building vibrant commercial districts that reflect the existing character of the city.
In the first two years of actively working these plans the city secured funding from public and private sources in excess of $15M for the town center.
Prior to his mayoral appointment, he spent 16 years on City Council and was President of City Council from 2012-2016. He serves on Bay Family Services, a joint city and school program to help at-risk youth. He is a member of the Bay Village Kiwanis, Bay Men’s Club, and Bay Village Historical Society. He is active with the Scouts BSA in Troop 40 with his daughter. Mayor Koomar and his family are members of Bay Presbyterian Church.
Bhuwan Pyakurel, Councilmember, City of Reynoldsburg
Bhuwan Pyakurel, a former refugee from Bhutan, resettled in the United States in 2009. He and his family moved to Ohio in 2014 and he became a U.S. citizen in 2015. They bought their first home in Reynoldsburg and immediately became involved in the community. Pyakurel and his wife, Dil, have been married for 14 years and they have two children, Aditi and Dev, both who attend Reynoldsburg Public Schools. Aditi loves reading and volunteers her time to raise funds to protect the environment. Dev loves sports and plays basketball and soccer, and enjoys skateboarding, karate, chess, and solving the Rubik’s Cube.
As a community leader, Pyakurel has worked with the Reynoldsburg Police Department and residents ever since he moved to the city. He believes education is the most important tool to bridge the gap and build trust between those in public safety and the community. Since 2015, Pyakurel has been a manager of interpretive services for Primary One Health, which operates 10 clinics in Central Ohio, and he serves on the Board of the new Reynoldsburg YMCA and Multiethnic Advocates for Cultural competence (MACC). He has also served as President of the Bhutanese Community of Central Ohio (BCCO).
For Ward 3 residents and all of Reynoldsburg, Pyakurel’s plans include: helping keep Reynoldsburg residents safer by fixing sidewalks, roads and infrastructure and improving lighting, increasing the number of code enforcement officers in the City, boosting communications and transparency between City Council and citizens by using modern technologies, and making City government work better for the people of Reynoldsburg by holding regular town hall forums with constituents.
Pyakurel, who has a Bachelor of Science degree from North Bengal University in India, and the City of Reynoldsburg, made history in November 2019 when he became the first Bhutanese American to be elected to public office in the United States. After he and 120,000 fellow Bhutanese-Nepali’s were forcibly pushed out of Bhutan and their civil, human and political rights stripped away, Pyakurel says he will “always be grateful to this nation for giving me a second chance to live my life and enjoy these freedoms in the greatest country in the world.” Pyakurel deeply values his American citizenship and its inalienable protected rights, and he now works to “pay it forward” and create new opportunities for the people of Reynoldsburg.
Anne C. Trinh, MPH; Senior Program Manager, Addiction Innovation Fund, OSU College of Public Health and Extension; Evaluator and Community Engagement Specialist, OSU Center for HOPES (Health Outcomes and Policy Evaluation Studies)
Anne Trinh manages a research fund designed to stimulate innovative responses to Ohio’s addiction epidemic. She also has a part-time appointment as an evaluator for multiple public health projects within and outside of OSU. Trinh has almost two decades of experience in public health practice and research in different settings, including local and Tribal governments; nonprofits; and universities. She is passionate about implementation and translational science within the context of population health improvement and believes that focusing on prevention, equity, and the social indicators of health can create and sustain thriving communities.
Before taking her position at the university, Trinh served as the maternal and child health epidemiologist and program specialist for Columbus Public Health. During her seven years with the city, she performed outbreak investigations and developed and led community coalitions to work with diverse partners to reduce Franklin County’s infant mortality rate. From 2008-2010, she lived on a reservation and worked with Tribes in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan as a chronic disease epidemiologist. This experience changed her immensely personally and professionally. During graduate school, Trinh worked for the San Diego County Veterinarian’s office to address challenges at the intersection of human and animal health.
Trinh went to school in San Diego and received a BS in Microbiology, with minors in Communications and Visual Arts, at the University of California, San Diego and a MPH in Epidemiology at San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health. She is originally from Los Angeles and misses the ocean above all else from her home state.
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