Mercedes Wallace

She/Her

Mercedes Wallace - 2024 NLC Columbus Fellow

Mercedes Wallace (She/Her) is a Director of Buckeye Leadership Fellows which fosters leadership personal and professional development on The Ohio State campus, and is an Author of Amazon Best Selling Poetry book "One Without The Other". She believes deeply in harnessing our stories as a source of our power and helps others to do the same. She fights for equitable spaces for everyone and focuses largely on Mental Health resources in education systems. Mercedes is from Youngstown, Ohio and gained her undergraduate degree in Crisis Communications and Political Science from University of Toledo. She is a lifelong learner and advocate.