Gayle Channing Tenenbaum
Director of Policy and Governmental Affairs:

Gayle served as executive assistant of human services for Governor Richard Celeste. In that capacity she was responsible for coordinating the cabinet departments of human services, mental health, mental retardation, youth services, health, and education. Prior to that, she was the director of several human services organizations in Cuyahoga County. She began her career as a caseworker in Hamilton County. She holds a master’s degree in social work from the Ohio State University.. Gayle has extensive experience in the areas of public policy development and implementation, group facilitation, planning, and development, as well as media and public relations. Recently she served as a member of the Strickland Transition Team focusing on health and human services policy. She is an adjunct professor, teaching public policy, at the Ohio State University College of Social Work., Child Policy at the Schubert Center at Case Western University and Senior Policy Fellow at the Voinovich School at Ohio University. She recently received the

Administration on Children, Youth and Families Commissioner’s Award to an individual in each state for their exceptional contribution for prevention child abuse.