PATRICK CARTIER - Director, operations & community engagement

pcartier@growavondale.org | 513-861-2232 ext. 103

Patrick Cartier joined the Avondale Development Corporation in 2012 as a community organizer and was named Director of Operations & Community Engagement. He connects Avondale residents to existing civic organizations in Avondale and coordinates all neighborhood communications. Among his many responsibilities, Mr. Cartier leads an engagement committee with a variety of local partners, produces digital communications, developed the Avondale Wi-Fi project and manages ADC’s community engagement activities.

Prior to joining ADC, Mr. Cartier was a community organizer for LISC Americorps, where he led a survey project to secure a Federal grant for housing and community development, organized residents and community-based organizations and managed communications systems.

Mr. Cartier is a volunteer at the Friars Club of Cincinnati, and member of the Avondale Community Council , and former trustee with the Roselawn Community Council. He has also served as a youth leader for the US Bank Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Cincinnati.

Mr. Cartier studied at Northern Kentucky University. He received additional training from LISC Americorps, the Neighborworks Training Institute at Foundations of Community Organizing, Interact for Health Communications Bootcamp, and Asset-based Community Development through Xavier University’s Community Building Institute.