Nickie J. Antonio was newly elected to the At-Large seat for Lakewood City Council in November of 2005. She chairs the Housing Committee, is a member of the Public Works Committee and serves on the Lakewood Hospital Board.

Antonio holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Education from Cleveland State University and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs at Cleveland State University. A former special education teacher and executive director for a community based women’s center, she is currently an organizational consultant for non-profit and governmental organizations. Antonio serves concurrently as an adjunct professor at the Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs at CSU. In 2003, she took a one-year hiatus from consulting to serve as the City of Lakewood, Executive Assistant to the Mayor for Community Relations.

She has been active in various civic organizations including membership in the Ohio Women’s Leadership Forum, Grow Lakewood Committee, Lakewood Schools Communications Committee, Lakewood Schools Fifty Years Committee, The Beck Center, LHS Athletic Boosters, Lakewood Soccer Association and Women Speak Out for Peace and Justice. She also served as the Chair of the Lakewood Citizens Advisory Committee for three of her four years on the committee. Past advocacy involvement includes the creation of the 2003 “CommUNITY Conversations,” dialogue model that fosters neighborhood community building through positive communication and the development of a Women’s Peace and Community Conference at Cleveland State University in 2002. In 1996 she served as United States delegate to Japan and the Philippines with the IIE program—ASIA Pacific WINGS. She is a founding member and past Chair of the NorthCoast HIV/AIDS Coalition, past President of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the National Organization for Women, and former board member of the Domestic Violence Center.