(Anthony Houston is donating one hour of his time to the winning bidder)

Since he became the director of the Cleveland Empowerment Zone in October of 2003, Anthony Houston has kept a low media profile, focusing instead on serving the 50,000 residents in the EZ. The Empowerment Zone is a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development program designed to help reinvest in the urban communities of Fairfax, Glenville, Hough, and midtown Cleveland for which the City of Cleveland received $177 million dollars of loan and grant funds over a ten year period. After living and working in New York, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia for fifteen years, he recently returned to Cleveland.