Vanessa Enoch

Vanessa Enoch is the mother of two daughters and "Nana" to her granddaughter.¹ She has spoken about raising her children alone after her husband's death and the difficulty of keeping a roof over their heads.² Her home is in West Chester, and her interests include gardening, travel and beach vacations.¹

Her family roots are in Portsmouth; she moved to Colerain Township as a fifth grader and graduated from Northwest High School.¹ She earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Ohio State, an MBA at Xavier University and a Ph.D. in public policy at Union Institute & University.² Her MBA included an information technology concentration.¹

Enoch has been a business owner since 1999.² She leads Cultural Impact, a management and technology consulting company offering workforce development, executive coaching and organizational services.¹ Her earlier work includes teaching college, serving as a department chair and dean of students, and reporting on criminal justice for The Cincinnati Herald.² She has also served as a Christian minister and church deacon.¹

Her health care platform calls for drug price negotiations, limits on patients' expenses, support for community clinics and paid sick and family leave.³ On housing, she favors changing land use rules and investing in developments with homes affordable to people at different incomes, including teachers, nurses and firefighters.⁴ She faces Republican incumbent Warren Davidson in November.⁵