Cleveland.com reports: Erini Heffernan describes starting Mahjong IRL after learning through a Junior League program and discovering she enjoyed teaching. Her small classes bring new players into local shops and hospitality venues.

Wendy Lee’s Cleveland Mahjong Collective grew from a personal effort to reconnect with her late mother’s history and find a nearby group.

The article explains how both organizers are creating regular opportunities for women to learn, arrive alone, and form friendships around American Mahjong.