PEOPLE

Lisa Long

CEO Designate and Financial Resource Development Director, Youngstown Area Jewish Federation

“It really is a really great place to live and so I do find myself championing it quite a bit and saying “you have to see it” and I also think that you get so much more opportunity here; my friends who are growing up and raising their kids in larger communities aren’t going to get these types of career opportunities. And their kids aren’t going to get the kind of opportunities that my kids are getting in a bigger community as my kids and I are getting here, so we’ve been here for 12 years now and we’ve never regretted it for a moment.”