Natoya J. Walker
Deputy Chief of Operations
Natoya J. Walker joined the Jackson Administration in January 2006 to oversee Community Relations, Consumer Affairs, the Department of Aging, and the Department of Public Health. She is a member of the Executive Team that is responsible for the strategic direction and implementation of Mayor Jackson’s Operations Efficiency Task Force, is the point of contact for initiatives related to homelessness, transitional housing, Re-Entry, and the One Voice…Zero Tolerance Youth Initiative.
Formerly, Walker served as Deputy Executive Director for Resident Services & HOPE VI where she was responsible for more than $50 million in urban revitalization funds with Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority (CMHA). In this capacity she was responsible for agency-wide strategic planning for all social, economic, health, and educational programs for all grant and contract-funded initiatives. Walker honed her leadership, management, and relationship-building skills through a variety of positions spanning public affairs, public policy, and government administration.
She has worked for the Non-Profit Clinic Consortium, where her responsibilities ranged from grants management to lobbying to designing a strategic business plan; Health Management Resources, where she was responsible for a $3 million Public Housing Primary Care, Health & Human Services contract; Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) on a graduate internship giving her policy reform experience; CMHA as a grants manager; and the Department of Justice Affairs, also as a grants manager.
Walker was selected as a 2008 American Marshall Memorial Fellow, and will travel to Europe as apart of a cohort to build transatlantic relationships. Walker is also a graduate of the 2004 Leadership Academy at Cleveland State University and the 1999-2000 charter class of Cleveland Bridge Builders. In 2003, she obtained an executive certificate in non-profit management from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Walker is a board member for the Black Professional Association Charitable Foundation, Cleveland Treatment Center, CSU Leadership Academy Society and the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority. She is also the Cleveland Chapter President of member of the National Forum for Black Public Administrators, the Organizational Assessment Committee of United Way of Greater Cleveland, Order of Eastern Star and Delta Sigma Theta, Sorority Inc.
Walker received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Toledo, and obtained a master’s degree in public administration from the City University of New York, Baruch School of Public Affairs. Walker is also a proud graduate of Cleveland public schools.
