Featured Affiliate CEO

Marsha A. Mockabee | President & Chief Executive Officer, Urban League of Greater Cleveland
National Urban League Conference Host
Cleveland, July 16-19, 2025
Marsha A. Mockabee serves as the President and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland where she leads an agenda empowering African-Americans to develop and exercise their potential on par with all other Americans through education, research, advocacy and provision of services. Marsha has more than 28 years of nonprofit leadership experience, as well as educational credentials that include a Bachelor’s degree from Concordia University (cum laude), a CNM from Case Western Reserve University, and MBM from Indiana Wesleyan. She serves on many committees and community efforts. Marsha’s accomplishments have been recognized locally and nationally. Along with Marsha’s CEO colleagues from Cincinnati and Columbus, she is helping to engage in statewide advocacy and policy issues affecting education in urban communities. Marsha is known amongst her National Urban League colleagues as the “turnaround specialist.” She and her husband, James, reside in Cleveland, Ohio. They have two married daughters, one grandson and two granddaughters.