“Ohio Is Home for All” reads a new, robin's egg blue digital billboard in Akron, featuring faces of people of all races, ages, and ethnicities. According to the Ohio Immigrant Alliance and Elizabeth Zaleski, the billboard’s sponsor, all people who choose to make Ohio their home, raise their families and build good lives here, are welcome in the Buckeye State.
“Ours is a message of welcome and inclusion,” said Lynn Tramonte, Executive Director of the Ohio Immigrant Alliance. “Immigrants are part of Ohio’s past, present, and future. The current federal government may see it differently, but most of them don’t live in Ohio. They don’t represent the opinion of millions of people here. We don’t need politicians who teach us to hate our neighbors. We need politicians who understand that every contribution matters and we are all part of one community.”
Elizabeth Zaleski is a book editor who lives in Akron. Concerned about current anti-immigrant policies, she reached out to OIA to partner on this billboard, which will be up through the month of February.
