Molly Schnoke

Molly Schnoke is the Director of the Center for Economic Development at the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education at Cleveland State University. Molly joined the college in 2006 in the Center for Community Planning & Development. Molly has worked with the Brookings Institution's Metropolitan Policy Program to monitor and track the development and implementation of regional economic competitiveness strategies for Northeast Ohio. She also has experience in overseeing research projects in program evaluation and survey research, economic impact studies, community housing and needs analyses, and the development of community-wide economic transformation plans. In addition Molly manages an international partnership with the University of Rijeka's Faculty of Economics and Business to foster and conduct collaborative research, academic exchanges and joint curriculum development.

She is a member of the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency's Economic Development Subcommittee, the Cuyahoga County Vacant and Abandoned Property Action Council's Delinquent Tax group and the national Middle Neighborhood Community of Practice. Prior to joining Cleveland State University she was the Assistant Director of Research at the Center for Regional Economic Issues (REI) at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management. Molly earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The Ohio State University and received her Masters from the University of Akron.