Jay Shatz

Biography

Jay Shatz was elected to Council in 2021. He works for the Leadership Council of Nonprofits as director of its leadership training, called BOLD, which prepares community members to serve on nonprofit boards. He and his husband Stan have lived in Amberley since May, 2005. Jay is an Emmy Award-winning journalist who spent 11 years at WCPO-TV before leaving the station to start a production company that created lifestyle programming for HGTV and DIY Networks. Their popular home improvement show “Desperate Landscapes” helped transform several Amberley and Pleasant Ridge front yards during the course of production. Jay is immediate past Board Chair of Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio in addition to serving as Chair of the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Cincinnati. A native of the northside of Chicago and lifelong Cubs fan, Jay is a graduate of the University of Illinois Urbana/Champaign with a degree in Broadcast Journalism.