Peggy Zone Fisher is the President and CEO of The Diversity Center for Northeast Ohio, a human relations organization that advances diversity, challenges assumptions and advocates for understanding through education and training.
For 30 years, Peggy was the President and CEO of Zone Travel; she sold her business in 2005. Peggy’s business and community leadership was recognized nationally when President Bill Clinton appointed her as one of 11 national Commissioners of the White House Conference on Small Business. As a U.S. Small Business Commissioner, Peggy traveled the country convening forums with business leaders about small business issues. The Women Business Owners Association honored her as one of the “Top 20 Women Business Owners in Northeast Ohio” and she received the YWCA Woman of Achievement Award.
Peggy served as Co-Chair of Cleveland Mayor Michael White’s 1990 Inauguration, and is a 1981 graduate of Leadership Cleveland. She is past President of the bipartisan Cuyahoga Women’s Political Caucus, and was the first woman to serve on the Board of the Lutheran Medical Center Board of Trustees. She was a delegate to the first-ever White House Conference on AIDS, and was honored by the AIDS Task Force of Greater Cleveland for her more than a decade of leadership on AIDS issues. Peggy currently serves on the Board of Neighborhood Progress, Inc., and the Board of the Cleveland Clinic Health System’s Western Region.
Peggy is a graduate of The Ohio State University. A Cleveland native, Peggy is the daughter of Mary Zone and the late Michael Zone, each of whom served on Cleveland’s City Council for a total of 21 years. Her brother, Matthew, currently serves on the Cleveland City Council, representing the same Cleveland ward that Peggy’s parents represented.
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