Project 21 Ambassador Bill Cleveland is a former member of the U.S. Capitol Police Department (1974-2004) who was elected to the Alexandria, VA City Council in 1988 and served as Vice Mayor from 1991-1993 and 2000-2004.

Bill has worked with governors of Virginia and with Members of Congress, and has been active on the Council of Governments as well as various council committees and state commissions. Bill worked as a consultant with the Washington, D.C. nonprofit Center for Neighborhood Enterprise.

Bill has also been involved with the Weed & Seed Youth Leadership Council, the Youth Leadership Summer Camp program, the Violence-Free Zone Project, the Northern Virginia Health Foundation, the Parent Leadership Training Institute, the Northern Virginia Community College Foundation Board, the Friendship Veterans Fire Engine Association, the Virginia State Martin Luther King Commission and the Virginia Crime Commission, and attended Rick Green’s Constitution Alive course.

Currently Bill serves as the president of the Friends of The Untouchables male youth club of Alexandria, as outreach coordinator for the Douglass Leadership Institute, and on the Governor’s African-American Advisory Board and the Governor’s AI Task Force.