Nancy Day-Achauer

Nancy Day-Achauer is a community leader with a decade of experience collaborating with community stakeholders to create programs that address human service needs on the Westside.

During her time as an ordained minister in central Ohio, her involvement with multiple local organizations and boards, such as the Westside Area Commission, she grew her commitment to community revitalization and public well-being through service and advocacy. Day-Achauer has particularly focused her work on helping the vulnerable members of her community, helping found programs like Ville on the Hill and Jordan’s Crossing Resource Center to help seniors and the homeless respectively. Her work on the boards for Homes on the Hill and the Prevention Action Alliance has allowed her to engage in addressing issues like housing affordability and the opioid epidemic.

Now, as a councilmember, she looks to use this experience addressing human service needs on the Westside to work for all of Columbus, improving the quality of life and access to services for residents in every corner of the city. Councilmember Day-Achauer will chair the Neighborhoods, Recreation, and Parks committee and will vice chair the Public Service and Transportation committee.

She grew up in the small town of Nevada City, California, where her parents instilled in her a strong sense of responsibility and exemplified active participation in the community. After high school, Day-Achauer attended night classes to earn her degree in Business Management, all while simultaneously raising her child on her own and working full-time. In 2005, she moved to Ohio to earn a Master of Divinity at the Methodist Theological School.

Day-Achauer and her husband Jeff live in Northwest Columbus with their dog, Arnie. They also have one daughter and two grandchildren.