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UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR and INSTITUTE OF POLITICS

welcome you to the

TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL ELECTED OFFICIALS RETREAT

Forging Our Future Together: Addressing Rural and Urban Needs to Build a Stronger Region

September 19-20, 2019 University Club

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Contents About the Institute ...... 3 Director’s Note ...... 5 Retreat Agenda ...... 7 2019 Coleman Award Winner – Frederick W. Thieman ...... 10 Speaker and Panelist Biographies ...... 11 IOP Program Criteria and Strategies ...... 27 Evaluation Instructions ...... 29 Advisory Board Membership ...... 30 Policy Committee Membership ...... 35

2 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics About the Institute

A forum for public and private decision makers The Institute’s goal of consensus building among regional leaders, both elected and nonelected, is fulfilled by its unique ability to gather decision makers around the table while acting as a non-partisan catalyst for public policy discourse. The facilitation of dialogue among public officials and other community leaders guides the Institute’s programming and its deliverables.

The Institute stimulates ongoing dialogue and offers issue specific educational programs and services such as seminars, briefings, and publications, which enable decision makers to examine regional economic, social, and political issues within local, state, and national contexts.

In 2019, this focus was strengthened with the addition of the Dick Thornburgh Forum for Law & Public Policy to the Institute. Established in 2007, the Forum builds upon Thornburgh’s legacy to advance his vision of creating effective and principled governance. Its mission is to foster public education and civic action on important national and international public policy issues.

Access to expertise and research The Institute provides regional elected officials and foundation, community, and business leaders with access to the many academic resources of the University of Pittsburgh and other area universities and strives to apply these resources to regional policy outcomes.

Student involvement The Institute enables University of Pittsburgh students to gain valuable insights into the political process as well as the challenges and rewards of public service. In 2015, the Institute strengthened its student programming with the launch of the Elise Hillman Civic Forum, an initiative designed to help bring young people and the community together to fuel progress in the Pittsburgh region while reflecting the generosity and humanity Elise Hillman displayed throughout her life.

Vision The Institute of Politics will be recognized as the region’s most effective partner in the development of enlightened public policy that promotes the vitality of Western Pennsylvania to the benefit of individuals, institutions, and businesses.

Mission The Institute of Politics delivers timely information about the great issues affecting our region to elected officials and community leaders—and the public whom they serve—and provides a non-partisan forum where that knowledge and associated diverse viewpoints are discussed, digested, enriched, and applied to the goal of promoting an improved quality of life, government efficiency, and economic vitality in Western Pennsylvania.

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 3 Elected Officials Retreat Statement of Purpose The March 7, 1997 Institute of Politics Board of Fellows meeting produced a request that the University of Pittsburgh host a retreat for public officials from different levels of government in Western Pennsylvania. Its principal purpose is to provide an informal forum for the discussion of strategies to address regional issues. The meeting also aims to enhance professional relationships among the participants.

4 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Director’s Note Welcome to the 23rd Annual Elected Officials Retreat. We are honored by the number of government officials and civic leaders attending this year’s forum, “Forging our Future Together: Meeting urban and rural needs to build a stronger region”.

Pitt’s Institute of Politics has been making distinctive contributions to the work of elected officials and other civic leaders in our home region for 30 years, principally by providing opportunities for the consideration of critically important policy issues in a nonpartisan forum and providing in-depth policy analysis and evidence-based data. Our annual Elected Officials Retreat, cosponsored by the Office of the Chancellor, provides rich opportunities for both substantive discussion and personal interaction in an off-the-record setting.

The complexity inherent in this year’s retreat topic represents the type of work the Institute has tackled over the past three decades, requiring the necessary role that the Institute plays in our region as a nonpartisan convener and mediator. According to Darrell West, author of Divided Politics, Divided Nation, the growing political divide between urban and rural America and the hyper-partisanship that colors it is challenging our democracy. West states that unless we learn to bridge these divisions and forge a future together, it will be impossible to maintain a functioning democracy and solve the problems facing our country.

The urban-rural divide is an extraordinarily complicated issue touching on deep-seated historical, cultural, and economic contexts – going well beyond the somewhat superficial suggestions that reduce this geographic division to political party affiliation and electoral maps. Behind those maps are the people they represent, many of whom have life experiences that are impacted by geography and public policy approaches that continue to create unequal access to opportunity. Poor health outcomes, lack of access to a quality education, and a lack of employment opportunities that pay family-sustaining wages are now largely defined by where people live. The culmination of these stressors causes hopelessness within families, an escalating distrust of government, businesses, universities, and deepening divisions among people.

That is why we have called this year’s retreat Forging our Future Together. For our region to succeed and unify, its strength must be defined by collective efforts to enhance the vitality of all our communities and provide access to opportunities for all people. Doing so requires us to hear and understand the perspectives of our fellow residents. It also requires innovative policy design and bipartisanship, which could be assisted through new tools like the Hamilton Project’s Vitality Index and Opportunity Insights’ Opportunity Atlas.

Dr. Jim Johnson, Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina will set the stage for the retreat by reviewing southwestern Pennsylvania’s demographic profiles and discussing disruptive trends playing out across the country and the opportunities they present in our region.

The two panel discussions that follow, explore more deeply the challenges and opportunities facing urban and rural communities. Lisa Schroeder, President and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation, will lead a discussion on issues facing people who live in urban settings. Jen Giovannitti, President of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, will lead a discussion on perspectives from rural Pennsylvania.

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 5 The first day will close with a presentation called Place-Based Policies for Shared Economic Growth, examining policy solutions at the federal and state level. Dr. Jay Shambaugh, Director of the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution will present the Project’s research on the Geography of Prosperity, The Role of Race in Regional Inequality, and a new economic measurement tool called the Vitality Index, which measures community well-being at the county level.

In keeping with this theme, Friday morning will open with Developing Community Economic and Social Mobility, a presentation from Dr. John Friedman, Professor of Economics and International and Political Affairs at Brown University and Co-Director of Opportunity Insights, which is headquartered at Harvard. Dr. Friedman will present scalable policy solutions that help families rise out of poverty. His presentation will also be interactive as he demonstrates the Opportunity Atlas, a tool using big data to understand social and economic mobility on a hyper-local level. As a natural transition, we want to explore the regional response to this body of research. Kenya Boswell, President of BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania, will lead a discussion with leading regional policymakers to consider Dr. Friedman’s recommendations.

All regional panels are comprised of distinguished leaders from the state legislature, local government, community development, business, and higher education. We want to thank all our panelists and extend special thanks to the Pennsylvania Senate’s President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati, Senate Majority Leader Jake Corman, Senate Minority Leader Jay Costa, Senator Camera Bartolotta, and Representative and Democratic Finance Chair Jake Wheatley for their expertise and participation in this year’s retreat.

Closing the retreat, we will shift gears, to focus on what is truly at stake should this divide continue to widen–people’s willingness to engage civilly with one another. We will hear from three organizations that are creatively bringing people together from rural and urban communities in each of their states, Kentucky and Illinois. Their aim is to promote civil discourse by developing cultural understanding between people coming from vastly different communities. Ada Smith, Institutional Advancement Director from Appalshop, an Appalachian based arts and media organization, and Savannah Barrett, Program Director from a national arts organization called The Art of the Rural, will discuss RUX (the Kentucky Urban Rural Exchange Program). Purvi Patel, Director of Civic Engagement from the University of Chicago’s Institute of Politics, will be discussing a student-based program called Bridging the Divide.

We hope that this year’s retreat prompts you to consider the findings of this research and test these new measurement tools as you craft public policy. By considering the impact of public policy on the well-being of all our communities and the social and economic mobility of all people of this region, we can begin to narrow the divide by addressing the needs of both urban and rural populations. It is our hope that the retreat fosters the development of new relationships among all of you, and together, you will forge innovative ideas throughout western Pennsylvania. We look forward to working with you on this very important endeavor.

Sincerely,

6 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Retreat Agenda UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR and INSTITUTE OF POLITICS present the 23rd ANNUAL ELECTED OFFICIALS RETREAT

Forging Our Future Together: Addressing Rural and Urban Needs to Build a Stronger Region

September 19-20, 2019 University Club

Thursday, September 19, 2019

12:00 – 1:00 pm General Registration and Lunch

1:00 – 1:10 Welcome by Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh

1:10 – 1:20 Program Overview and Introductions by Mark Nordenberg, Chancellor Emeritus and Chair, Institute of Politics, University of Pittsburgh

1:20 – 2:05 Pennsylvania: Current Outlook & Disruptive Demographic Trends by James H. Johnson Jr., William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Director, Urban Investment Strategies Center, Kenan- Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina

2:05 – 2:20 Q & A: Open Discussion

2:20 – 3:05 Panel Discussion: Urban Perspectives in Pennsylvania moderated by Lisa Schroeder, President and CEO, The Pittsburgh Foundation

Panelists:  Diana Bucco, President, The Buhl Foundation  The Honorable Jay Costa, Minority Leader, Pennsylvania Senate  Presley Gillespie, President, Neighborhood Allies  Majestic Lane, Deputy Chief of Staff and Chief Equity Officer, Office of Mayor William Peduto, City of Pittsburgh

3:05 – 3:25 Q & A: Open Discussion

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 7 3:25 – 3:40 Break

3:40 – 4:25 Panel Discussion: Rural Perspectives in Pennsylvania moderated by Jen Giovannitti, President, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation

Panelists:  Jem Spectar, President, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown  The Honorable Joe Scarnati, President Pro Tempore, Pennsylvania Senate  The Honorable Albert “Chip” Abramovic, Commissioner, Venango County  The Honorable Camera Bartolotta, Member, Pennsylvania Senate

4:25 – 4:45 Q & A: Open Discussion

4:45 – 5:30 Place-Based Policies for Shared Economic Growth by Jay Shambaugh, Director, The Hamilton Project; Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

5:30 – 5:50 Q & A: Open Discussion

5:50 – 6:00 Closing Remarks by Mark Nordenberg

6:00 – 6:30 Reception

6:30 The Coleman Award Dinner honoring Frederick W. Thieman, Henry Buhl, Jr. Chair for Civic Leadership, The Buhl Foundation, and former U.S. Attorney

8 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Friday, September 20, 2018 8:00 – 8:30 am Check-In and Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 Opening Remarks by Samantha Balbier, Director, Institute of Politics

8:45 – 9:30 Developing Community Economic and Social Mobility by John Friedman, Professor of Economics and International and Political Affairs, Brown University and Co-Founder, Opportunity Insights

9:30 – 9:50 Q & A: Open Discussion

9:50 – 10:35 Panel Discussion: Investing in the People and Neighborhoods of SWPA moderated by Kenya Boswell, President, BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania Panelists:  The Honorable Jake Corman, Majority Leader, Pennsylvania Senate  Michael Kane, President and Executive Director, Community Foundation for the Alleghenies  Stefani Pashman, CEO, Allegheny Conference on Community Development  Dave Reed, Regional President, First Commonwealth Bank  The Honorable Jake Wheatley, Finance Committee, Democratic Chair, Pennsylvania House of Representatives Finance

10:35 – 11:00 Q & A: Open Discussion

11:00 – 11:15 Break

11:15 – 12:00 pm Building Connections to Reinvigorate Civil Discourse moderated by Samantha Balbier Panelists:  Savannah Barrett, Program Director, The Art of the Rural, and Co-founder, Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange  Purvi Patel, Director, Civic and Campus Engagement, Institute of Politics, University of Chicago  Ada Smith, Institutional Development Director, Appalshop, and Co- facilitator, Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange

12:00 – 12:15 Q & A: Open Discussion

12:15 – 12:30 Closing Remarks by Mark Nordenberg

12:30 Lunch

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 9 2019 Coleman Award Winner – Frederick W. Thieman On the evening of Thursday, September 19th, we will honor the winner of this year’s Moe Coleman Award for Excellence in Community Service, Frederick W. Thieman, who currently serves as the Henry Buhl, Jr. Chair for Civic Leadership, The Buhl Foundation and who earlier served as both the President of the Buhl Foundation and as the United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Fred has dedicated his career and life to the service of others and has played a major role in improving the quality of life in our region.

Frederick W. Thieman currently serves as the Henry Buhl, Jr. Chair for Civic Leadership. In this capacity, he works to bring people together to address Western Pennsylvania priorities, and advance designated regional initiatives. Prior to his appointment to the Chair, he served for nearly a decade (2007- 2016) as President of the Buhl Foundation, Pittsburgh’s oldest multi-purpose foundation. As President of Buhl, Mr. Thieman was recognized for his leadership on important community initiatives in education, youth development and human services, while also guiding the Foundation to a place-based focus on the Northside of Pittsburgh. A former United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, Mr. Thieman arrived at Buhl with an impressive civic and professional background.

Appointed by President Clinton, Mr. Thieman served as the United States Attorney from 1993 to 1997, where he headed an office of 42 attorneys who both prosecuted criminal violations throughout Western Pennsylvania and handled voluminous civil litigation ranging from health care issues and tort liability to employment rights and environmental impact. While serving as the U. S. Attorney, Mr. Thieman was instrumental in establishing a youth crime prevention effort in Allegheny County that garnered national attention.

Over the course of his 30 year legal career, Mr. Thieman practiced as a trial attorney with a specialty in complex business related litigation. He began his career in 1977 as a law clerk to Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Pomeroy, Jr. While practicing law, Mr. Thieman was recognized in professional journals as one of the leading attorneys in Pennsylvania.

Mr. Thieman was admitted to practice in 1977 after graduating magna cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as Assistant Editor of the Law Review. A 1973 honors graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, Mr. Thieman is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Bar, the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Thieman has served on numerous non-profit boards and foundation boards, including the Heinz Endowments and the Buhl Foundation, and is the recipient of numerous civic leadership awards from organizations such as the University of Pittsburgh, Urban League, Community College of Allegheny County, League of Women Voters and the Mentoring Partnership.

10 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Speaker and Panelist Biographies

Chip Abramovic Albert “Chip” Abramovic serves as a Venango County Commissioner and a financial advisor. He is actively involved in county, regional, and statewide boards, pertaining to workforce development, economic development, human services, and agriculture. Venago County provides critical services to 55,000 county residents and has an operating budget of $58 million per year. Commissioner Abramovic led initiatives to create workforce-focused development in the agriculture industry, bring awareness to the ever-growing opioid epidemic, and develop new ideas to lower recidivism in Venango County jail. Commissioner Abramovic graduated from Robert Morris University with a B.S. in Finance. He sits on the County Commissioners’ (CCAP) Board of Directors, is Chairman of Academy for Excellence in County Government, also on the Agriculture Committee, Behavioral Health Task Force, Natural Gas Task Force, Northwest Regional Commission, Northwest Workforce Development Board, regional Farm Bureau, and University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Board of Fellows. In his free time, he helps at his family’s business, Sleep Hollow Golf Course, and enjoys helping and engaging with the local and regional community.

Samantha Balbier Samantha became the Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and the Elsie Hillman Civic Forum in early 2019. Prior to joining the IOP, she worked on a range of public policy issues facing the nonprofit sector as the Executive Director of the Forbes Funds’ Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership (GPNP), a coalition of over 450 organizations from Southwestern Pennsylvania. There, she worked with regional leaders to advocate on behalf of the sector to address federal and state issues such as charitable tax status, healthcare reform, overtime rules, tax reform, behavioral health, state performance-based budgeting, and the upcoming 2020 US Census. She has a breadth of knowledge in issue-based policy, especially in the fields of pediatric environmental health, green building design, early childhood education, and human services. Over the past twenty years, she has filled a range of roles including working in philanthropy as program staff at the Heinz Endowments, as an Executive Director of an environmental health nonprofit, and as a special consultant to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s Office of Child Development and Early Learning, where she launched a statewide initiative that engaged five state departments.

Her policy analysis and program development activities reflect the importance of strategically engaging content experts with elected and government officials and have resulted in Pennsylvania being awarded the Excellence in Environmental Protection of Children from the Children’s Environmental Health Network in 2014, as well as the Innovation in Education Award for the 2016 GPNP Behavioral Health Public Policy Cohort awarded by Mental Health America.

Samantha holds Bachelor’s degrees in Business and Social Work from Mercyhurst University. She received her Master’s in Social Work with an emphasis in public policy and community organizing from

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 11 Pitt in 1998. Samantha received the Outstanding Alumni Award from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work in 2018. She is incredibly grateful to the University and her former graduate school advisor, the late Dr. Morton Coleman, Founder of the Institute of Politics, who guided her towards this career in public policy.

Savannah Barrett Savannah Barrett is the Exchange Director for Art of the Rural and co-founder of the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange. She serves the board of the Center for Performance and Civic Practice and the Robert E. Gard Foundation and as an advisor to the Bush Foundation Community Creativity Cohort and the Art of Community: Rural SC. She has widely published essays and interviews. She holds a Masters of Arts Management from the University of Oregon, and is an alumnus of the Muhammad Ali Scholars for Peace and Justice at the University of Louisville and from the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts. She previously guided programs for the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy, the Louisville Visual Art Association, the Oregon Folklife Network, and Paul Paletti Gallery. Savannah is a twelfth- generation Kentuckian and was raised in Grayson Springs, where she co-founded a local arts agency in high school. She is a proud steward of six acres of her home place and currently lives in Louisville."

Camera Bartolotta Senator Camera Bartolotta brings an entrepreneurial spirit and a wealth of real-world experience to her job representing residents of Beaver, Greene and Washington counties. A longtime resident of Monongahela, she was elected to her first term representing the 46th Senatorial District in 2014 and was re- elected in 2018.

During her time in the Senate, Camera has authored several new laws, including measures to help judges keep the most dangerous domestic violence offenders behind bars; relocate victims of domestic violence who live in public housing; protect Pennsylvania’s fresh water supplies by ensuring the safe use of treated mine water in oil and gas operations; authorize the operation of Transportation Network Companies like Uber and Lyft in all 67 counties; and strengthen penalties for motorists who injure workers and emergency responders in construction zones. She also introduced a proposed amendment to the Pennsylvania Constitution to limit the future growth in state government spending.

In the Senate, Camera’s committee assignments reflect the main concerns of the communities she represents, including the need for quality, family-sustaining jobs and smaller government. She currently serves as Chair of the Senate Labor and Industry Committee, which is responsible for considering a wide range of issues pertaining to both employers and employees, including Worker’s Compensation, Unemployment Compensation, workplace safety, building codes and workforce development.

She also serves as Vice Chair of the Senate Intergovernmental Operations Committee, and as a member of the Senate Environmental Resources and Energy Committee; Senate Judiciary Committee; Senate Rules and Executive Nominations Committee; and Senate Transportation Committee.

12 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Camera also co-chairs the Senate Gas and Oil Caucus, a bipartisan legislative body that focuses on issues impacting the gas and oil industry with the goal of promoting policies resulting in a positive future for constituents, the business community and state economy. She also co-founded the bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform Caucus to focus on ways to help promote safer communities, reduce prison costs and ensure better outcomes for individuals who are part of the criminal justice system.

Prior to being elected to the Senate, she opened the first quick-lube business in the Mon Valley, Duke of Oil, which has been providing quality, affordable service since 1988. She also produced “La Dolce Vita,” a cooking show that aired on WPXI-TV and PCNC.

Camera is an active member of the community she has called home for more than three decades. She is involved with local chapters of the American Cancer Society, the American Heart Association, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She also serves on the Pittsburgh Film Office Board of Trustees. Camera is a member of the Saint Damien of Molokai Catholic Church.

Family is a great source of pride in Camera’s life and motivates her civic engagement. Her daughter, Devin, is an award-winning news reporter, producer and anchor in Baltimore. Her son, Dante, is pursuing a career in the military. Her stepdaughter, Danielle, and son-in-law, Matthew, are successful business owners in Florida. Her stepson, Damon, is a steamfitter and lives in Belle Vernon with his wife, Laurie.

Kenya Boswell Ms. Boswell joined BNY Mellon in 2008 from Duquesne Light, where she managed the firm’s signature Partners in Education program and a range of community relations initiatives. Kenya currently serves as President of the BNY Mellon Foundation of Southwestern Pennsylvania. Taking the position in January of 2015, Kenya oversees Corporate, Tax Credit and Foundation investments that support BNY Mellon’s philanthropic, business and Community Reinvestment Act objectives. She is a member of BNY Mellon’s Pittsburgh Executive Council, which sets strategic priorities for the firm’s single largest employee location around the world. Kenya was instrumental in creating UpPrize—a unique collaboration between BNY Mellon and The Forbes Funds—which combines impact investing with a research-based social innovation challenge. She has been recognized throughout her career for her accomplishments and was named a Pittsburgh Business Times’ Fast Tracker, Pittsburgh Magazine 40 under 40, New Pittsburgh Courier Fab40, and a BNY Mellon Diversity & Inclusion Champion. She received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Master of Science Degree in Nonprofit Management from Robert Morris University and has completed the Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women at Carnegie Mellon University.

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 13 Diana Bucco Diana Bucco is the President of The Buhl Foundation where she has led the revisioning of the Foundation’s new strategy and approach to philanthropy, including its focus on community-driven neighborhood revitalization. Prior, she was the President of The Forbes Funds, a Pittsburgh-based organization that supports nonprofit capacity-building through grantmaking, research, and leadership development. During her tenure, The Forbes Funds became a leader in supporting Strategic Restructuring, Fiscal Modeling and Advocacy on behalf of the nonprofit sector. She also launched the Greater Pittsburgh Nonprofit Partnership, a coalition of 350 nonprofit organizations that have joined together to create a unified voice for the sector.

Previously she was the founding executive director of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership and The Mentoring Partnership of Southwestern Pennsylvania, and the executive director of Pennsylvania Campus Compact. She is a Trustee of Point Park University and serves on the Boards of the Pennsylvania Economy League of Greater Pittsburgh, Carnegie Science Center, Riverlife, Advancing Academics, A+ Schools, and is a member of the International Women’s Forum. She serves nationally on the board of Global Ties USA. She has been recognized throughout her career for her accomplishments including the YWCA Tribute to Women, Pittsburgh Business Times Women of Influence Award, Spirit of Amelia Earhart Award by Zonta Club of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Magazine’s 40 under 40, Coro’s MLK, Jr. Leadership Award and was the recipient of a German Marshall Fellowship. She was also recognized by the state as one of the top ten of the GenX generation.

Jacob Corman Jacob Corman, of Centre County, was elected to the Senate of Pennsylvania in 1998. Senator Corman represents the 34th Senatorial District, which includes all of Centre, Mifflin, and Juniata counties and part of Huntingdon County.

Senator Corman serves as Majority Leader of the State Senate, the second highest-ranking position in Senate leadership. It is a position to which he was first elected to by his colleagues in 2015. As Majority Leader, Senator Corman sets the legislative agenda, develops policies and strategies for the Senate Republican Caucus, and chairs the Senate Rules and Executive Nominations Committee. He also plays a major role in negotiating issues with the Administration and House of Representatives as well as supervising action on the Senate floor.

From 2009 to 2015, Senator Corman served as Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which reviews all legislation for its fiscal impact and plays a crucial role in developing the state budget. The Senator’s hands-on experience in state and federal government has made him one of the General Assembly’s foremost authorities on public policy and fiscal issues.

Senator Corman has been a leader in addressing issues greatly impacting the Commonwealth including historic pension reform; the state’s largest transportation investment; a comprehensive plan to revise the anti-hazing laws; and the Endowment Act, which directed $60 million to be used in Pennsylvania to help victims of child sexual abuse.

14 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Senator Corman continues to advocate for ways to develop Pennsylvania’s workforce, strengthen the state’s economy and improve the state’s education system at all levels. His steadfast commitment to revitalizing business and industry in the Commonwealth has resulted in the creation of new jobs and opportunities for Pennsylvania workers.

Senator Corman obtained an Associate Degree in Communications from the Pennsylvania College of Technology and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Pennsylvania State University. He is married to Kelli Corman. They are the parents of three children – Isabella, Davis and Jacob. The Corman family resides in Bellefonte, Centre County.

Jay Costa State Senator Jay Costa represents portions of the City of Pittsburgh, East Hills communities, areas of the Mon Valley and South Hills (43rd District).

As a lifelong resident of Allegheny County, Sen. Costa was born and raised in Pittsburgh and now lives with his wife Roxanne in Forest Hills. He has three children – two sons and one daughter. He is the son of the late Allegheny County Treasurer Jay Costa Sr. A graduate of Taylor Allderdice High School, Community College of Allegheny County, and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and holds a Juris Doctorate from Duquesne University.

Before his election to the Senate, Sen. Costa was a deputy sheriff in Allegheny County and Allegheny County Register of Wills. He is currently a Principal in the downtown Pittsburgh law firm Dickie McCamey & Chilcote P.C.

Sen. Costa was elected Senate Democratic leader in 2010. Previously, he served as Democratic chair of the Senate Appropriations and Judiciary Committees and was Caucus chair. He co-chairs the General Assembly’s Arts and Culture Caucus and is Democratic chair of the Senate Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee.

Sen. Costa’s legislative record of accomplishment is long and features signature laws in the areas of education, family law, judicial reform, public safety, job creation and health care. Early in his career, Sen. Costa prime sponsored the plan (FAIRx) to leverage rebates to lower drug costs for seniors – a concept later signed into law by Gov. Ed Rendell. He was a strong supporter of expanding the nationally recognized CHIP program and Medicaid. He also authored legislation to direct cooperative agreements between insurers and providers as a means to resolve the Highmark/UPMC coverage dispute.

Applying his background in family law, he was able to push a proposal (Act 186) that allows pooled trust funds to serve individuals with disabilities. Sen. Costa successfully encouraged other court reforms – sponsoring proposals to improve diversity in jury pools (Act 37) and provide certified interpreters for deaf, hearing impaired and those with limited English proficiency (Act 172).

A strong commitment to job creation led Sen. Costa to support key initiatives relating to economic development in the Pittsburgh area. He led the effort for robust transportation funding (Act 89), and backed new stadiums for Pittsburgh (Act 1) and tax credits for riverfront development (Senate Bill 282).

A former deputy sheriff and Democratic chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Sen. Costa actively promoted public safety and security throughout his tenure in the Senate. He sought maximum penalties

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 15 for burglary and burglary-related offenses (Act 122) and worked to halt ordinances that penalize residents who call for emergency assistance – particularly in domestic violence situations (Act 200). Sen. Costa supported upgrades to child protection laws and the reporting of child abuse. He authored a law calling for life sentences for those who commit rape when serious injury occurs to victims under 13 years of age.

Focused on the safety of our children, Sen. Costa toughened a law that imposed penalties for school bus drivers that exceed fixed blood alcohol levels and enhanced penalties for those who drive under the influence with a minor in the vehicle (Act 24). During the 2015-16 legislative session, he championed a new law (Act 70) that adds protections for construction and public safety workers in highway work zones and fought for legislation that provided sweeping reforms to the Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority (Act 99).

Over the course of his legislative career, Sen. Costa has been a strong, effective promoter of education. From seeking additional funding for K-12 education, higher education and pre-school he is recognized as one of the General Assembly’s leaders for education. In addition to accessing more funding for schools, he sought new state-of-the-art technologies for the classroom, in addition to sponsoring far-reaching property tax relief proposals.

Beyond his legislative work, Sen. Costa serves on board of trustees of the University of Pittsburgh and is treasurer of the Community College of Allegheny County board. He also is on the boards of the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Sen. John Heinz History Center, 3 Rivers Wet Weather, Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, CLO, Forest Hills Community Development Corporation and a lifetime trustee of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh.

John Friedman John N. Friedman is a professor of economics and international affairs and public policy at Brown University and a founding co-director of Opportunity Insights at Harvard University. His research brings together theory and data, harnessing the power of large administrative datasets to yield policy-relevant insights on a wide range of topics, including taxation, healthcare, and education quality. His work has appeared in top academic journals as well as in major media outlets. His most well-known papers estimate the long-term effects of teachers on student outcomes such as college attendance and earnings; in just one year, a great teacher can raise the lifetime earnings of a single class of students by nearly $1.5 million. This work was cited by President Obama in his 2012 State of the Union Address. Friedman has also worked as special assistant to the President for economic policy at the National Economic Council in the White House from 2013-2014. He holds a Ph.D. in economics, an AM in statistics, and a BA in economics, all from Harvard University. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

16 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Patrick Gallagher As the University of Pittsburgh’s 18th chancellor, Patrick Gallagher directs one of the nation’s premier public institutions for higher education and research. In this role, Gallagher oversees a community of more than 34,000 students at 16 undergraduate and graduate schools across five distinct campuses. He also supports the work of more than 13,000 faculty and staff members who are committed to advancing the University’s legacy of academic excellence, community service and research innovation.

Under his leadership, Pitt has strengthened its status as one of the nation’s premier public institutions for higher education and research, including being named the top public university in the Northeast by the Wall Street Journal and Times Higher Education.

Prior to his installation at Pitt, Gallagher spent more than two decades in public service. In 2009, President Barack Obama appointed him to direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology. While in this role, Gallagher also served as acting deputy secretary of commerce before leaving for Pitt in the summer of 2014.

Today, Gallagher serves as the chair of Internet2 and is active on a number of boards and forums, including the NCAA Division I Presidential Forum, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and the United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania. He has also completed terms on a wide range of community boards and committees, including President Obama’s 12-person Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity in 2016.

Gallagher holds a PhD in physics from the University of Pittsburgh and a bachelor’s degree in physics and philosophy from Benedictine College in Kansas.

Presley Gillespie Presley L. Gillespie is the inaugural president of Neighborhood Allies, a community development intermediary that supports the people, organizations and partnerships committed to creating and maintaining healthy neighborhoods in Pittsburgh, PA. He is responsible for working collaboratively with the Board of Directors, the community, key funders and staff to launch this new entity, and has ultimate responsibility for the overall management of the organization including, but not limited to operations, fundraising, financial management, hiring and personnel management, board and external relations, vendor management, grant making/strategic investments and evaluation/outcomes/quality assurance.

Mr. Gillespie is a nationally recognized leader in the field of community and economic development and was most recently the founding executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC), the first citywide community development corporation in Youngstown, OH. Presley came to the non-profit sector after a successful 18-year banking career, primarily focused on community

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 17 development lending and community revitalization. Previously, he served as Vice President for KeyBank where he was responsible for identifying, structuring and closing community development/commercial real estate loans that ultimately led to the creation of affordable housing, economic development and job creation.

While in Youngstown, he led YNDC for five years, from a start-up organization with a budget of $200,000 to a large, dynamic entity with a $3.1 million budget. Under Mr. Gillespie’s direction, YNDC’s accomplishments included:

 Leading one of the most comprehensive and successful neighborhood stabilization efforts in Youngstown’s history.  Developing the two-acre YNDC Neighborhood Revitalization Campus, including Iron Roots Urban Farm, HMHP Foundation Demonstration Kitchen, and Community Training Workshop.  Launching a first of its kind Community Loan Fund, a first mortgage product for low-to-moderate income homebuyers.

His prior banking experience includes, Vice President, Middle Market Commercial Banking for a $15 billion-dollar banking institution, where he managed a $50 million-dollar commercial lending portfolio. Prior to that assignment, he was Vice President, Community Development Manager for a $2 billion- dollar banking institution, where he managed the community development banking division. In that role, he led the corporation’s business development efforts related to affordable housing, commercial real estate in urban markets, and community investments. Presley has structured more than $60 million dollars in community development lending, including real estate developers, non-profit corporations, and corporate banking clients.

Presley has served on numerous boards locally and nationally, including the Board of Directors of The Center for Community Progress and the Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center Advisory Board. In 2017, Presley received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Youngstown State University, and in 2015, he was selected by Mayor William Peduto as a Daniel Rose Fellow with the Rose Center for Public Leadership, a fellowship established to encourage and support excellence in land use decision making by local governments.

Presley holds a B.A. in organizational communication and management from Youngstown State University. He resided for 18 years in Youngstown, Ohio with his wife Nora and their two children and relocated to Pittsburgh in 2014.

Jen Giovannitti Jen Giovannitti is the President and a Trustee of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, a private family foundation founded in 1944, which serves southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Prior to joining the Foundation, Ms. Giovannitti led strategic programs and community-based initiatives for seven years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, most notably in community investment, human capital, regional collaboration. She formed the West Virginia Loan Fund Collaborative in 2012 to better understand the impact of small business lending in underserved communities. She has authored a variety of reports, publications, and opinion essays, and has applied her expertise

18 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics broadly in rural development strategies. Ms. Giovannitti lived West Virginia for 11 years, first serving as the director of the Elkins rail yard redevelopment project, then serving as chief executive of the Randolph County Economic Development Authority and West Virginia Wood Technology Center. Throughout her career she has held leadership positions at the local, state, and regional level with nonprofits, universities, state trade associations, and government planning bodies. In addition to starting her career as a planner in western Pennsylvania in positions with the engineering firms of Mackin Engineering Company and Herbert, Rowland, and Grubic, Inc., Ms. Giovannitti spent time in graduate school as an international research fellow through the University of British Columbia Centre for Human Settlements, where she led a research project in Vietnam designed around the role of women in the household economy and poverty alleviation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

James H. Johnson, Jr. James H. Johnson Jr. is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship in the Kenan-Flagler Business School and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues. He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. Currently he is researching strategies to combat hyper-segregation, persistent and concentrated poverty, and gentrification-induced residential and economic dislocations in U.S. cities. And he currently works with gentrifying cities to develop roadmaps for inclusive and equitable economic development that creates shared prosperity. Fast Company profiled him in “Hopes and Dreams.” He received his PhD from Michigan State University, his MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BS from North Carolina Central University.

Michael Kane Mike Kane has been at the Community Foundation for the Alleghenies since 2001. During that time, he has had the opportunity to work with thousands of donors throughout Bedford, Cambria, Somerset and Indiana counties and beyond. He is interested in donors’ stories and aspirations and in the many different ways partnerships with donors can better our communities. He has served on the boards of various organizations in support of philanthropy, community and economic development, conservation, the arts, and education. He holds degrees from the University of Pittsburgh and Emerson College. He and his wife, Elizabeth, live in Johnstown and have two grown children. His hobbies include running while listening to his favorite playlists and having his heart broken each year by the Pitt football team.

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 19 Majestic Lane Majestic Lane is Deputy Chief of Staff & Chief Equity Officer in the Office of Mayor William Peduto.

As Deputy Chief of Staff & Chief Equity Officer, Majestic leads the Peduto administration's focus on opportunity for all residents of the City of Pittsburgh in regard to Education, Workforce Development, Safe & Healthy Communities and Digital Inclusion. Additionally, Majestic leads the administration’s engagement with national organizations regarding equity and inclusion strategies.

Prior to serving as Deputy Chief of Staff, Majestic was the Deputy Chief of Neighborhood Empowerment where he coordinated the administration’s neighborhood equity efforts through community driven development and affordable housing initiatives.

Before joining the Mayor’s office, Majestic served as the Director of External Affairs & Membership Engagement at Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG), a membership organization for Community Development Corporations, Community-Based Organizations, and related nonprofits throughout Southwestern Pennsylvania. Majestic also served as the Director of Community Engagement & Strategy at A+ Schools, an education advocacy organization dedicated to improving outcomes for Black & Brown children in Pittsburgh Public Schools, and a legislative aide to Pennsylvania State Senator Jim Ferlo focusing on community development, education & sustainability issues.

Mark Nordenberg Mark Nordenberg joined the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1977 and quickly built a reputation as an outstanding teacher. He was the initial recipient of the Law School’s Excellence in Teaching Award and one of the first faculty members to receive the University-wide Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award. His area of academic specialty is civil litigation, and he has served as a member of both the U.S. Advisory Committee on Civil Rules and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Civil Procedural Rules Committee. He holds the special faculty rank of Distinguished Service Professor of Law.

Nordenberg served the University as Dean of the School of Law from 1985 to 1993 and as Interim Provost, or chief academic officer, from 1993 to 1994. In 1995, he was elected Interim Chancellor by the University's Board of Trustees, and in 1996, following a national search, he was elected Chancellor. He served in that role until 2014, and under his leadership, the University achieved new levels of quality and impact on virtually every front. Undergraduate applications and the academic credentials of enrolled students soared; faculty and students regularly received the highest forms of national and international recognition; Pitt consistently ranked among the top American universities in federal research awards; and the University successfully completed a $2 billion fundraising campaign.

Chancellor Emeritus Nordenberg has received many important honors. Among them, he has been named Pittsburgh’s Person of the Year by Pittsburgh Magazine and a History Maker by the Senator John Heinz History Center. To celebrate the remarkable progress achieved during his first decade as

20 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Chancellor, trustees, alumni leaders and other friends contributed $2.5 million to endow the Chancellor Mark A. Nordenberg University Professorship. Several years later, he was again honored when Pitt’s Board of Trustees announced the naming of the Mark A. Nordenberg residence hall and the creation of an endowed scholarship fund, which already had attracted more than $5 million in private donations and which supports outstanding undergraduates known as “Nordenberg Leadership Scholars.” Earlier, Pitt students had named a new social area in the William Pitt Student Union “Nordy’s Place” in his honor.

Nordenberg is a past Chair of both the Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education and the Pennsylvania Association of Colleges and Universities and served on the executive committee of the Association of American Universities. Reflecting his role as a leader in higher education, he has been awarded honorary degrees by Carnegie Mellon University, the Community College of Allegheny County, Duquesne University, LaRoche College and Thiel College, as well as the University of Pittsburgh.

Nordenberg served for more than twenty years as a director of both the Bank of New York Mellon and UPMC (the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). He currently serves on the board of the Manchester-Bidwell Corporation and as an emeritus trustee of Thiel College. He also serves as a member of the small, independent committee appointed by the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh in the wake of the killings at the Tree of Life synagogue and is actively involved in studying anti-hate initiatives.

Chancellor Emeritus Nordenberg is an honors graduate of North Allegheny High School, Thiel College and the University of Wisconsin Law School. Since stepping down as Chancellor, he has served as Chair of the University’s Institute of Politics. For thirty years, the Institute has provided a non-partisan forum for the consideration of policy issues of importance to the region by elected officials and other civic leaders. Among other topics, recent initiatives have addressed the changing face of poverty, the opioid addiction public health crisis, incarceration policies and practices, and the plight of financially distressed municipalities. Recent retreats have focused on poverty, opioids, criminal justice reform, the future of democracy and the future of work.

In recent years, the Institute has expanded to include the Elsie Hillman Civic Forum and the Dick Thornburgh Forum on Law & Public Policy. Nordenberg also serves as Director of the Thornburgh Forum, which sponsors a wide-range of programs both for the faculty, students and staff of the University and for the broader community. Among those programs is the American Experience Lecture, co-sponsored with the University Honors College, which has brought speakers of national and international stature to Pitt’s campus for nearly fifty years.

Stefani Pashman Before joining the Conference, Stefani served as CEO of Partner4Work and its predecessor, the Three Rivers Workforce Investment Board, for seven years. She transformed the organization from a $1.5 million research-based group to a $20 million public-private system that educates the region on labor market dynamics, funds public and private workforce programs and connects local employers with qualified talent. Prior to Partner4Work, Stefani served in Governor Rendell’s Administration for nearly seven years at the PA Department of Human Services as Director of Policy and as Special Assistant to the Secretary. She also

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 21 worked in private consulting at Avalere Health and Navigant and as an analyst in the White House Office of Management and Budget.

Stefani holds an M.B.A. and a Masters in Health Administration from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis. She is active in national and local organizations and is a graduate of Leadership Pittsburgh. She resides in Squirrel Hill with her husband and three children.

Purvi Patel Purvi serves as the Director of Civic and Campus Engagement at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics(IOP). In this role, she advises the IOP’s Civic Engagement student leadership, builds relationships with community partners, and works on civic engagement program development and strategy. She oversees the IOP’s Bridging the Divide Program, a public service leadership development program focused on building relationships, partnerships, and fostering dialogue across urban & rural divisions. Previously, Purvi worked as an administrator in diversity and student life at Washington University in St. Louis, Loyola University Maryland, and Oberlin College. Purvi is from Dallas, Tx and graduated with a B.A. in History from Loyola University Chicago, and a M.A. in College Student Personnel from Bowling Green State University.

Dave Reed Dave grew up in Homer City and represents the sixth generation of his family to reside in Indiana County. Dave graduated from Homer-Center High School, where he was a member of the baseball and football teams.

He went on to earn a bachelor’s degree from the Robert E. Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) in mathematics and economics. While at IUP, Dave was a javelin thrower on the track & field team and served as an intern for Governor Tom Ridge’s Policy Office for Community and Economic Development.

After his time at IUP, Dave continued his education at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), where he earned a Master of Governmental Administration Degree.

After graduating from Penn, Dave ran for the State House of Representatives at the age 24. When first elected, he was the youngest member of the State House, and through hard work, forging positive and collaborative relationships; he was twice elected by his peers to become the House Majority Leader.

After his eighth term serving in the House of Representatives, Dave chose to move into the private sector by joining First Commonwealth Bank as their Regional President for the Pennsylvania Community Markets.

Dave currently serves on the board of directors of the Indiana County Community Action Agency and the Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce. In addition, he enjoys coaching Little League baseball and youth football.

Dave, his wife Heather, their son Joshua, and their daughters Gracie and Elliana, live in White Township.

22 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Joe Scarnati Senate President Pro Tempore Joe Scarnati is currently serving his 5th term in the Pennsylvania Senate. As President Pro Tempore of the Senate, he holds the third-highest constitutional office in the State. He was born and raised in Brockway, Pennsylvania and represents the 25th Senatorial District, which includes Cameron, Clinton, Elk, Jefferson, McKean, Potter and Tioga Counties and portions of Clearfield County. Joe grew up understanding that business and industry are vital to our state’s economy and its future. After graduating from Penn State University at DuBois, Joe became a third-generation business owner in the Brockway area. He has carried on the lifelong tradition of working to better his community through involvement and civic leadership, serving on both the Brockway Borough Council and the Jefferson County Development Council. He is also a member of the St. Tobias Roman Catholic Church in Brockway. Working in the private sector for 20 years prior to coming to Harrisburg, serving as a local official and being a small business owner have given him a unique perspective on how government can work more effectively to help job-creators, working families and communities. Since being elected to office, Joe has been a leader in reforming the way business is conducted in Harrisburg, and he remains committed to making the institution more open and accessible to the citizens of the Commonwealth. As Senate President Pro Tempore, Joe serves as an ex-officio member of each of the 22 Senate Committees. He has been a committed leader in addressing numerous important fiscal and conservative issues within the state. In his 19 years as a State Senator, Joe has served as a rank and file member of the Senate, as a member of Senate Leadership and currently as Senate President Pro Tempore – a position that he was elected to by the full Senate. In November of 2008, with the passing of Catherine Baker Knoll, Joe became Pennsylvania’s 31st Lieutenant Governor. He served the remainder of Lieutenant Governor Knoll’s term, which ended January 18, 2011. Joe resides in his hometown of Brockway with his wife Amy. They enjoy spending time outdoors, cooking, traveling, biking and spending time with their children.

Lisa Schroeder Lisa Schroeder is president and CEO of The Pittsburgh Foundation. She was appointed in February to lead the nearly 75-year-old community philanthropy, which has about $1.2 billion in total assets and 2,300 individual charitable funds. The Foundation works to improve the quality of life in the Pittsburgh region by evaluating and addressing community issues, promoting responsible philanthropy and connecting donors to the region’s critical needs.

As a nonprofit executive and civic leader, Schroeder has a distinguished record in Pittsburgh and Baltimore for turning place-centered organizations into powerful movements for quality-of-life improvement, and for collaborating closely with local, state and federal government officials.

From 2002 until 2015, she led Riverlife, a public-private partnership established to guide and advocate for redevelopment of Pittsburgh’s three rivers. Since its 1999 launch, $4.1 billion has been invested in development and the riverfronts now attract millions of users from throughout the region.

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 23 She was widely praised for her achievements when she left to return to her hometown of Baltimore to become president and CEO of the Parks & People Foundation, where she oversaw completion of a $14 million capital campaign and her “Every Kid Deserves a Park” program led to construction of new family- friendly parks serving more than 60,000 people living in city neighborhoods struggling from decades of disinvestment. She also launched a national competition to create a waterfront park connecting 22 neighborhoods along the Patapsco River to $500 million worth of development opportunities.

Lisa served as a Fellow of the Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School for Economic Development and on the board of directors of Dollar Bank and the Regional Industrial Development Corporation. Her awards for leadership include the AIA Gold Medal, the Pittsburgh Business Times Outstanding Women in Business Award and the 2016 Community Service Award in Baltimore. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of William Smith College, she received a Master’s of Science degree from Columbia University.

Jay Shambaugh Jay Shambaugh is the director of The Hamilton Project and a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is also a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He has spent two stints in public service. Most recently, he served as a Member of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (August 2015-January 2017) where he was involved in policy related to international economics, macroeconomics, competition policy, energy and environment policy, housing, finance, technology, as well as other issues. He also served first as a Senior Economist for International Economics and then as Chief Economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers (2009-11).

Prior to joining the faculty at George Washington, Jay taught at Georgetown and Dartmouth. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER and has been a visiting scholar at the IMF. Jay received his PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley, MA from the Fletcher School at Tufts, and BA from Yale University.

Jay’s area of research is macroeconomics and international economics. His work includes analysis of the interaction of exchange rate regimes with monetary policy, capital flows, and trade flows as well as studies of international reserves holdings, country balance sheet exchange rate exposure, the cross- country impact of fiscal policy, the economic crisis in the euro area, and regional inequality in the United States. In addition to his book, “Exchange Rate Regimes in the Modern Era” (MIT Press, 2009), Jay has published in The American Economic Review, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and other leading journals.

24 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Ada Smith Ada Smith is from Whitesburg, Kentucky and currently serves as the Institutional Development Director of Appalshop. Smith is a founding member of the STAY Project (Stay Together Appalachian Youth), a youth-led, multi- issue regional network. She is a board member of: Southerners on New Ground (SONG), the Mountain Association of Community Economic Development (MACED), and the Kentucky Rural-Urban Exchange. A graduate of Hampshire College, Smith was selected as a 2013 Arts & Culture Fellow by the Rockwood Leadership Institute and a 2016 BALLE Local Economy Fellow.

Jem Spectar Dr. Jem Spectar has served as the President of the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown (Pitt-Johnstown) since July 2007. Since then, President Spectar has provided visionary, energetic and creative leadership that has contributed to the achievement of transformative strategic goals including, significant academic program innovation, construction of new facilities, resource development and revitalized community relations. Under Spectar’s leadership, Pitt-Johnstown has since launched three new schools – nursing & health sciences, business & enterprise and engineering - that have elevated the stature, profile and impact of the institution. Previously, he served as Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor at Western Oregon University, Associate Provost and Professor at the University of Scranton, Director of Studies and Lecturer at Princeton University, and Assistant Dean and Associate Professor of Law at the University of La Verne College of Law. He holds a BA in international studies from the University of La Verne; an MA from the George Washington University; an MBA from Frostburg State University; a JD from the University of Maryland School of Law; and an MA in politics and a PhD in political science from the Claremont Graduate University. His scholarship on pressing justice and human security dilemmas in global society has been published in several international law journals. Passionate about the arts, he has developed and curated an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures and artifacts from around the world. He has served on several boards including the American Conference of Academic Deans (ACAD), the Association of International Educators (NAFSA), the Johnstown Educational Foundation, the Committee on International Education of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the Johnstown Area Regional Industries (JARI).

Jake Wheatley Rep. Jake Wheatley Jr., D-Allegheny, a recognized United States Marine combat veteran of Operation Desert Storm who received the Combat Action Ribbon, National Defense Service Medal and the Kuwaiti Liberation Medal, is a proud resident of the City of Pittsburgh. Rep. Wheatley holds a bachelor's degree in political science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University where he graduated with honors. He went on to receive a master's of public administration from the University of Pittsburgh.

He was first elected in 2002 to represent the 19th Legislative District, which includes historic Pittsburgh neighborhoods such as: The Hill District, North Side, South Side, Allentown, Hazelwood, Downtown, the

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 25 Bluff, Knoxville, Beltzhoover, Manchester, Arlington, Arlington Heights, and West, South and North Oakland, among others.

As a first-term legislator, Rep. Wheatley was identified by a nonpartisan highly recognized political website as one of six rising political stars to watch. In 2005, he was identified by PoliticsPA.com as one of the 100 most influential politicians in the state. Most recently he was identified by a national political magazine as one of three Pennsylvania state representatives to watch as a political star. Rep. Wheatley was the second member ever to be selected to serve on the powerful Appropriations Committee as a first-term legislator.

From his very first day of service, Rep. Wheatley has championed the cause of access and inclusion for all of Pennsylvanians. He has been a stalwart in the Democratic Caucus and in Harrisburg pushing for economic development, mass transit, and true education funding and academic advancements for all children as well as providing leadership on covering every Pennsylvanian with quality, affordable and error-free health care.

Rep. Wheatley is a member of community boards and agencies too numerous to list. To name but a few, he is currently serving on the Board of Trustees of the University of Pittsburgh and the boards of Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership, and Pittsburgh Community Services, Inc., and he is a member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

On July 1, 2017, Rep. Wheatley began a three-year term on the Carlow University Board of Trustees. In October of the same year, Wheatley was elected to the board of directors of the Pittsburgh CLO.

Rep. Wheatley relishes his role as a public servant and is committed to being a vehicle for citizens of the 19th Legislative District and throughout the Commonwealth for positive change in the quality of their communities and their lives. He has always believed that he works for those who have sent him to Harrisburg and has used the late Speaker K. Leroy Irvis' statement 'Through us, they speak' as a guiding principle in his daily work. For this same reason, Rep. Wheatley calls his office the People's Office as a daily reminder of this principle to himself, his staff and the people he is honored to serve.

26 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics IOP Program Criteria and Strategies The Institute of Politics committees and staff use the following criteria to develop publications and forums relating to key regional policy issues.

The Criteria  The two primary criteria for Institute programs are that they are planned, developed, and implemented with the involvement of elected officials and that there are policy outcomes.  A unique role of the Institute of Politics is to serve as a non-partisan catalyst to bring together elected officials from different levels of government, community and civic leaders, foundation, business and labor executives, and other stakeholders to freely discuss the critical policy issues facing our region. Thus, the Institute will conduct its business in a politically non-partisan environment where open, inclusive, candid, civil discourse is both promoted and valued.  The signature programming strategy of the Institute will continue to be to serve as a catalyst for regional policymaking. Unless otherwise determined by its governing structure, Institute sessions will be regional, intergovernmental, interdisciplinary, non-partisan, and off the record.  Effective policy discussions and desirable outcomes are dependent on an informed exchange of ideas rooted in up-to-date information that measures the region’s performance against best practices. To that end, policy committees will utilize available sources of regional data to inform their deliberations.  To ensure that Institute programs and publications meet the approval of its governing structure—Board of Fellows, Executive Committee, and Policy Committees—Institute strategies will be generated and fulfilled through this internal governing structure and the Institute staff.  The Institute hopes to achieve policy outcomes in the forms of public policy education, public discussion and dialogue, dissemination of publications, and dissemination of regional information to inform state and national policy development. All programs will be individually evaluated; an overall evaluation will be conducted periodically.

The Strategies  Educational Forums: In the form of seminars, conferences, retreats, and programs on substantive regional issues for elected officials and civic, community, and business leaders.  Federal, State, and Local Government Policy Sessions: Small-scale data-driven forums on policy issues facing the region.  Development of Policy Guidance Documents: A committee may determine that it makes good sense to research, produce and disseminate a policy guidance paper to inform the development of an education forum, a policy session, or pending legislation.  Task Forces and Subcommittees: Policy committees may determine that it is appropriate to meet on an ongoing basis to develop and refine particular policy issues relative to their committee prior to pursuing other Institute strategies.

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 27  Continuing Briefing Sessions: These may be held in the case of a need to resolve specific issues arising from the Institute’s seminars. They may include committee members and other key stakeholders.  Programs for the General Public  Student Programming: To stimulate student interest and knowledge about elected officials and the region’s issues.  Publications: o Annual Report – Annual publication that summarizes the recent activities of the Institute. o Case Study – Through access to world-class academic resources, including archival collections and utilization of editorial boards, provides cutting-edge, research-based analyses of regional public-policy issues through the use of specific state and regional cases. o Policy and Research Reports – A comprehensive evaluation of a critical issue facing Southwestern Pennsylvania that includes federal, state, and regional data and research.

28 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Evaluation Instructions Please tell us about your experience!

At the retreat, you will receive a paper evaluation form that you can turn in to the registration table as you leave. If you do not have a chance to fill out the paper evaluation, please look for an email on Monday, September 23 that will contain a link to the online evaluation form for this year’s retreat.

We do pay attention to these evaluation results in crafting next year’s event. Thank you in advance for your feedback!

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 29 Institute of Politics Board of Fellows Federal Elected Local Elected Mike Doyle Albert Abramovic Member Commissioner U.S. House of Representatives Venango County

State Elected Steve Craig Commissioner Camera Bartolotta Lawrence County Member PA Senate Rich Fitzgerald Chief Executive Jake Corman Allegheny County Majority Leader PA Senate Deb Gross Member Jay Costa, Jr. Pittsburgh City Council Minority Leader PA Senate Leslie Osche Commissioner Austin Davis Butler County Member PA House of Representatives Rodney D. Ruddock Commissioner Frank Dermody Indiana County Democratic Leader PA House of Representatives Academia Dan B. Frankel Kenyon Bonner Member Vice Provost and Dean of Students PA House of Representatives University of Pittsburgh

Joseph B. Scarnati III William M. Carter, Jr. President Pro Tempore Professor of Law, School of Law PA Senate University of Pittsburgh

Pam Snyder Jackie Dunbar-Jacob Member Dean & Distinguished Service Professor, School of PA House of Representatives Nursing University of Pittsburgh Michael Turzai Speaker Elizabeth Farmer PA House of Representatives Dean, School of Social Work University of Pittsburgh

30 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Kevin P. Kearns Samuel Reiman Professor, Graduate School of Public and President International Affairs Richard King Mellon Foundation University of Pittsburgh Edith Shapira Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. Chair, Board of Directors Emeritus Professor of Health Policy & Management, The Pittsburgh Foundation Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh Frederick W. Thieman Henry Buhl, Jr. Chair for Civic Leadership Sharon P. Smith The Buhl Foundation Former President University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg Stanley W. Thompson Program Director, Education Foundation The Heinz Endowments Kenya Boswell Community/Civic President BNY Mellon Foundation of SWPA Marc Cherna Director Diana Bucco Allegheny County Department of Human Services President The Buhl Foundation G. Reynolds Clark Interim Executive Director James V. Denova Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority Vice President Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation Ami Gatts President Sylvia V. Fields Washington Greene County Job Training Agency Executive Director Eden Hall Foundation James A. Gibson Senior Rabbi Sheila Fine Temple Sinai Chair & Officer LEAD Pittsburgh & Fine Foundation Dan Gilman Chief of Staff Caren Glotfelty Office of Mayor William Peduto Executive Director Allegheny County Parks Foundation Karen Hacker Director Maxwell King National Center for Chronic Disease Prevent and Former President & CEO Health Promotion The Pittsburgh Foundation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Grant Oliphant Kevin L. Jenkins President President & CEO The Heinz Endowments Manchester Bidwell Corporation

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 31 Lisa Scales Hal English President & CEO Attorney Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank H.A. English & Associates, P.C.

Randy Vulakovich Morgan K. O’Brien Former Member President and CEO PA Senate Peoples Natural Gas

Linda Yankoski Dave Reed President & CEO President Holy Family Institute First Commonwealth Bank

Business/Labor Jack Shea Former President Kate Dewey Allegheny County Labor Council Senior Advisor Cohen and Grigsby P.C. Matthew Smith President Laura Ellsworth Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Partner-in-Charge of Global Community Services Initiatives Richard W. Taylor Jones Day Chief Executive Officer Imbue Technology Solutions, Inc.

32 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Elsie Hillman Civic Forum National Advisory Council

Esther L. Bush Kim Evert President and CEO President and CEO Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania

Doris Carson Williams* Harold T. Lewis President and CEO Rector Emeritus African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Calvary Episcopal Church Pennsylvania Dan B. Frankel G. Reynolds Clark Member Former Vice Chancellor and Special Assistant to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Chancellor University of Pittsburgh Kathleen McCauley Chief Planning Officer Lisa Freeland Allegheny County Department of Human Services Federal Public Defender Western District of Pennsylvania Kathleen McKenzie Vice President, Community and Civic Affairs Mark Holman Highmark Inc. Partner Ridge Policy Group George L. Miles, Jr. Chairman Emeritus and Former President and CEO Yvonne Cook WQED Multimedia Chester Engineers President Highmark Foundation Tom Murphy Senior Resident Fellow Ronald Kaufman Urban Land Institute Senior Strategic Advisor Marjorie Rendell Dentons Judge United States Court of Appeals John Denny* Principal Edith L. Shapira Denny Civic Solutions Chair, Board of Directors The Pittsburgh Foundation Maxwell King Former President and CEO Jack Shea The Pittsburgh Foundation Former President Allegheny County Labor Council Mike Doyle Member Constance Williams U.S. House of Representatives Former Member Pennsylvania Senator B.J. Leber President and CEO Adagio Health

*co-chair

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 33 The Dick Thornburgh Form for Law and Public Policy Steering Committee Assad Arjang John Keeler Henry E. Haller Jr. Dean Dean Katz Business School and College of Business Graduate School of Public and International Affairs Administration University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh David Miller Ariel Armony Professor Vice Provost, Global Affairs Graduate School of Public and International Affairs University of Pittsburgh University of Pittsburgh

Samantha Balbier Audrey Murrell Director Acting Dean Institute of Politics Honors College University of Pittsburgh Ann Cudd Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor Mark Nordenberg University of Pittsburgh Chancellor Emeritus, University of Pittsburgh and Chair, Institute of Politics David DeJong Executive Vice Provost Kornelia Tancheva University of Pittsburgh Director University Library System Anthony Delitto University of Pittsburgh Dean School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Dick Thornburgh University of Pittsburgh Former Governor Commonwealth of Pennsylvania David Ehrenwerth* Partner Ginny Thornburgh K&L Gates Former First Lady Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Kathy Humphrey Senior Vice Chancellor for Engagement and Nancy Watson Secretary, Board of Trustees Archivist, Thornburgh Forum University of Pittsburgh Archive Service Center University of Pittsburgh Patrick Gallagher Chancellor Amy Wildermuth University of Pittsburgh Dean School of Law University of Pittsburgh

Sam Zacharias* Managing Partner SSZ Financial

*co-chair

34 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Economic Development Policy Committee

Camera Bartolotta Richard Lunak Member President & CEO PA Senate Innovation Works

Doris Carson Williams Robert Stein President and CEO Executive Director, Institute for Entrepreneurial African American Chamber of Commerce of Western Excellence Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh

Steve Craig* Richard W. Taylor* Commissioner Chief Executive Officer Lawrence County Imbue Technology Solutions, Inc.

Mariann Geyer Pamela A. Tokar-Ickes Vice President for External Affairs Commissioner Point Park University Somerset County

John Paul Jones Randy Walsh Principal Professor J2 Development Group University of Pittsburgh

*co-chair

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 35 Education Policy Committee

Tom Baker Alan M. Lesgold Member Former Dean and Professor Emeritus, School of Allegheny County Council Education University of Pittsburgh Gregg S. Behr Executive Director R. Gerard Longo The Grable Foundation Clinical Associate Professor of Administrative and Policy Studies, School of Education Suanna Chand University of Pittsburgh Director Remake Learning Keriann Lons Product Director Karina Chavez OnHand Schools, Inc. Executive Director Pittsburgh Council on Higher Education Debbie Pixton Program Director Ron Cowell The Consortium for Public Education Executive Director The Education Policy & Leadership Center Jeffrey P. Pyle Member Susan S. Everingham PA House of Representatives Director of Innovation Architecture RAND Corporation Mike Reese Member Jackie Foor PA House of Representatives Director of Organizational Advancement The Consortium for Public Education Rodney D. Ruddock* Commissioner Lena Hannah Indiana County Advocacy Ambassador Pennsylvania School Boards Association D'Ann Swanson Senior Program Officer Carey Harris The Grable Foundation CEO Literacy Pittsburgh Stanley W. Thompson* Program Director, Education Linda B. Hippert The Heinz Endowments Professor, School of Education Point Park University James Wagner Executive Director Valerie Kinloch ARIN Intermediate Unit 28 Renee and Richard Goldman Dean, School of Education Jake Wheatley, Jr. University of Pittsburgh Member PA House of Representatives Michael E. Lamb Controller *co-chair City of Pittsburgh

36 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Environment Policy Committee

Frank Dermody* Edward K. Muller Democratic Leader Professor, History Department PA House of Representatives University of Pittsburgh

Mike Doyle Andrew Place Member Vice Chairman U.S. House of Representatives Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Grant Ervin David Sanchez Chief Resilience Officer and Assistant Director, Assistant Director, Education and Community Department of City Planning Engagement City of Pittsburgh Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation

Caren E. Glotfelty* Edith L. Shapira Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors Allegheny County Parks Foundation The Pittsburgh Foundation

Brian J. Hill Pam Snyder Senior Program Officer Member Richard King Mellon Foundation PA House of Representatives

Sara Innamorato Joel A. Tarr Member Richard S Caliguiri University Professor of History PA House of Representatives and Policy Carnegie Mellon University Jayne Miller President & CEO John Walliser Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy Senior Vice President, Legal & Government Affairs Pennsylvania Environmental Council

*co-chair

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 37 Fiscal Policy and Governance Committee

Heather Arnet An Lewis Chief Strategy Officer Executive Director The Women and Girls Foundation of SWPA Steel Valley Council of Governments

Jay Costa, Jr. David Y. Miller Minority Leader Professor, Graduate School of Public & International PA Senate Affairs University of Pittsburgh George Dougherty Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Public & Aradhna Oliphant International Affairs President & CEO University of Pittsburgh Leadership Pittsburgh, Inc.

Richard Dunlap Dan Onorato Member Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs Hampton Township Council Highmark, Inc.

Rich Fitzgerald* James Roddey County Executive Special Assistant to President Allegheny County St. Barnabas Health System, Inc.

Vince Gastgeb Matthew Smith Vice President, Government and Community Affairs President Allegheny County Airport Authority Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce

Richard Hadley Frederick W. Thieman* Chairman The Henry Buhl Jr. Chair for Civic Leadership Cranberry Township Board of Supervisors The Buhl Foundation

Susan G. Hockenberry Sala Udin Executive Director Member, Board of Directors Quaker Valley COG Pittsburgh Public Schools

Brian K. Jensen Chelsea Wagner Senior Director, Policy & Advocacy Controller Allegheny Conference on Community Development Allegheny County

*co-chair

38 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Health and Human Services Policy Committee

Carmen Anderson Kevin P. Kearns Director of Equity and Social Justice Professor, Graduate School of Public and The Heinz Endowments International Affairs University of Pittsburgh Nicholas J. Beldecos Executive Director James Kelly DSF Charitable Foundation Professor & Director of Field Education, Department of Social Work Mary A. Crossley Carlow University Professor, School of Law University of Pittsburgh B.J. Leber President & CEO John Denny Adagio Health Principal Denny Civic Solutions Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. Professor, Health Policy & Management Kate R. Dewey University of Pittsburgh Senior Advisor Cohen & Grigsby P.C. Leslie Osche* Commissioner Patrick Dowd Butler County Executive Director Allies for Children Sandra L. Phillips Executive Director Jackie Dunbar-Jacob Peoples Oakland Dean & Distinguished Service Professor, School of Nursing Loren H. Roth University of Pittsburgh Associate Senior Vice Chancellor for Clinical Policy and Planning Karen Wolk Feinstein University of Pittsburgh President & CEO Jewish Healthcare Foundation Laura Stephany Health Policy Coordinator Dan B. Frankel* Allies for Children Member PA House of Representatives Larry Swanson Executive Director Bernard D. Goldstein Action Housing Professor and Dean Emeritus, Graduate School of Public Health Kristy Trautmann University of Pittsburgh Executive Director FISA Foundation Kevin L. Jenkins President and CEO Manchester Bidwell Corporation

*co-chair

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 39 Infrastructure Policy Committee

Stan Caldwell Brian Krul Director of State Relations Assistant Vice President Carnegie Mellon University TranSystems

H. Daniel Cessna Robert J. Macey Senior Vice President and Regional Director of the Member Pennsylvania Headquarters Region Allegheny County Council Michael Baker International Paul Messineo Michael P. Crall Business Development Manager Vice President Allen & Shariff Engineering HDR Engineering, Inc. Tedd Nesbit Barry DeAngelis Member Municipal Services Specialist PA House of Representatives PennDOT Gregory Scott Shaun Fenlon Senior Project Manager Vice President, Conservation Programs Buchart Horn, Inc. Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Richard A. Stafford James R. Hassinger Distinguished Service Professor of Public Policy President and CEO Carnegie Mellon University Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission Ron Steffey Patricia L. Kirkpatrick Executive Director Community Relations Coordinator Allegheny Valley Land Trust Don’t Stop Deamin’

*co-chair

40 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Policy Committee Kevin Boozel Thomas Michlovic Commissioner Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Public and Butler County International Affairs University of Pittsburgh Matthew Brown Chief of Emergency Services and Fire Marshall Eugene Vittone Allegheny County Department of Emergency District Attorney Services Washington County

Maurita Bryant Randy Vulakovich* Assistant Superintendent Former Member Allegheny County Police PA Senate

G. Reynolds Clark* Kim Ward Interim Executive Director Member Pittsburgh Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority PA Senate

David Harris LaToya Warren Distinguished Faculty Scholar & Professor Assistant Deputy Director School of Law Forensic Services University of Pittsburgh

Steve Imbarlina Deputy Director and Assistant Chief of Fire/EMS Allegheny County Department of Emergency Services

*co-chair

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 41 Workforce Development Policy Committee

Jamie Baxter Ami Gatts* Education Policy Director President Allies for Children Washington Greene County Job Training Agency, Inc. Jennifer Beer Vice President, Government Relations John Goberish Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce Dean, Workforce Development & Continuing Education Kenya Boswell Community College of Beaver County President BNY Mellon Foundation of SWPA Gabriella Gonzalez Senior Social Scientist Esther Bush RAND President & CEO Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh Debra Killmeyer Interim Vice President for Workforce Development Lisa Campbell Community College of Allegheny County Dean of Workforce Development Butler County Community College Lisa Kuzma Senior Program Officer Bud Cook Richard King Mellon Foundation Member PA House of Representatives David Malone President & CEO Darby Copeland Gateway Financial Services Executive Director Parkway West Career & Technology Center Angela Mike Director, Career and Technical Education Austin Davis Pittsburgh Public Schools Member PA House of Representatives Petra Mitchell President & CEO James Denova* Catalyst Connection & PTC Vice President Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation David Mosey Executive Director Jane Downing Smart Futures Senior Program Officer The Pittsburgh Foundation Cynthia Shields Assistant Deputy Director, Office of Community Brenda Frazier Services Former Member & Civic Leader Allegheny County Department of Human Services Allegheny County Council William Thompson Executive Director Westmoreland-Fayette Workforce Development Board

42 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics John Tkach Angela Zimmerlink Director of Projects Commissioner Keystone Development Partnership Fayette County

Lee Ann Wainwright Policy, Government & Public Affairs Specialist Chevron Appalachia

*co-chair

2019 Elected Officials Retreat | 43

44 | University of Pittsburgh Institute of Politics

30TH ANNIVERSARY:1989–2019

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Samantha Balbier Director

Briana Mihok Senior Policy Strategist

Aaron Lauer Senior Policy Analyst

Meredith Mavero Manager of Student Programs and Community Outreach

Stephen Jarrett Literary Researcher and Writer

Brittny Klinedinst Undergraduate Intern

Olivia Kruger Undergraduate Intern

Mark Nordenberg Chair and Chancellor Emeritus