Daria is a proud alumna of the Vira I. Heinz (VIH) Women in Global Leadership Program. As a recipient of the VIH scholarship, she traveled to Ghana, West Africa where she studied performance and the Ghanaian community/culture. To continue her work with VIH, she created a “Community Engagement Experience” with four other VIH awardees called […]

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    Daria M. Sullivan

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    Daria is a proud alumna of the Vira I. Heinz (VIH) Women in Global Leadership Program. As a recipient of the VIH scholarship, she traveled to Ghana, West Africa where she studied performance and the Ghanaian community/culture. To continue her work with VIH, she created a “Community Engagement Experience” with four other VIH awardees called “#StopTheShade: Exploring the Color Bias”. This event provided a platform for attendees to learn and discuss colorism through video clips and roundtable discussion. It was such a huge success, that the VIH organization asked Daria and her team members to recreate it.

    Daria is also a professional actor (Actors’ Equity Membership Candidate) with some voice and dance training. During her undergraduate career at the University of Pittsburgh (where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Theatre Arts and Communication), she worked on nine diverse shows as a performer, stage manager, playwright, spotlight operator, props shop assistant, and dresser. She also worked on creating a play with a local playwright/actor while studying abroad in Ghana.

    Moving forward, she hopes to continue to develop her skills as a performer and to better herself as a global citizen by collaborating on more art projects around the world.

  2. Shannon Gazze

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    Shannon Gazze is a nonprofit leader seeking to contribute value to the local community and develop impact-driven programs and policies.

  3. Ujamaa Collective

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    Through placemaking, cooperative strategies, community and economic development, Ujamaa’s vision is to create sustainable neighborhoods and communities that are healthy and economically vibrant for people of African descent.

  4. Idea Foundry

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    Founded in 2002, Idea Foundry is a Pittsburgh-based, non-profit, economic development organization dedicated to creating living-wage, high-opportunity jobs. They do this by serving individuals – whether they be entrepreneurs, researchers, executives, students, or families. Their main initiatives are investing in and working alongside entrepreneurs to transform innovative business ideas into viable commercial activities and leveraging global programs to attract talent, capital and business to the Pittsburgh region. Idea Foundry’s global initiatives support Pittsburgh as an international innovation hub through investment and collaboration across the globe. Idea Foundry has worked with organizations such as GlobalPittsburgh and the U.S. State Department to host visitors from around the world and develop partnerships with continuing impact. They also work with organizations such as VisitPittsburgh to make Pittsburgh a more welcoming city for the international community. Additionally, Idea Foundry supports local startups which drive a positive impact, such as tackling global challenges or promoting diversity in entrepreneurship. They seek to use their knowledge of the field to strengthen Pittsburgh and foster connections the world over.

    Mexico Collaboration- Idea Foundry has launched 4 startups across Mexico by extending Idea Foundry’s expertise and guiding them through business development services.

    Russia Collaboration- Idea Foundry has signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate with the largest Foundation in Russia to help them on their entrepreneurship ecosystem.

    China Initiatives- Idea Foundry partnered with the VisitPittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Regional Alliance to increase awareness, specifically in the Chinese market, of education, tourism, business, and investment in the Pittsburgh and PA region.

  5. Brett Fulesday

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    Brett has appraised/valued businesses for the past 14+ years.

    What drives him, though (and this is something that he realized within only the past 12 to 18 months), is intellectual curiosity — the desire to always want to learn and be learning. To that end, he directs his energy and efforts to — basically, to offer to serve as another set of eyes in — the broad areas of arts, education and entrepreneurship.

    No matter the type of service or project, a story must always be told. Whether in writing or in person, he thrives on turning the complex into the easy-to-understand.

  6. Bryan Schultz

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    Bryan shifted his career focus to international higher education in 2011 after spending 15 years providing executive-level leadership to nonprofit organizations in Colorado and Washington DC. Bryan’s primary content area was early childhood education but he also dabbled in land trusts, strategic planning consulting, and welfare reform. Bryan earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Kalamazoo College (MI) where he won the Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Research in Women’s Studies for his senior thesis titled Sexual Subordination in American Education: Political, Social and Economic Relationships and the E. Bruce Baxter Award for Outstanding Development in Political Science. Bryan earned a Master of Nonprofit Management from Regis University (CO) where he was awarded the prestigious Colorado Trust Fellowship, a partnership between Regis University and the Colorado Trust to develop leaders in the Colorado nonprofit sector. During his free time, Bryan enjoys long backpacking trips, following Detroit-based professional sports, painting, going to concerts, and exploring new places – especially those overseas.

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    We are Pittsburgh’s platform for showcasing the ideas, individuals and innovations that are redefining the Steel City. Pittsburgh is best known for the steel forged on the banks of its three rivers. Bridges and a blue-collar work ethic have come to define our region. Although present day Pittsburgh is devoid of iron furnaces and steels mills, our reputation for hard work remains. We’ve replaced the relics of the industrial revolution with corporate headquarters, co-working spaces, art galleries and idea labs. We are in the midst of a city wide renaissance. Thanks to the efforts of our city’s incredible network of inventors, entrepreneurs, artists and humanitarians, the innovation taking place in our backyard are once again laying the foundation for the future of our city and country.

  8. Nathan Darity

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    Nathan completed his graduate studies at the University of Pittsburgh in public health and international development before beginning work with Amizade Global Service Learning in 2009. He was Amizade’s site director in Brazil for a few years before becoming a Project Director responsible for designing health science programs, overseeing Brazil site development, and leading a variety of Pittsburgh-based initiatives. In 2014 he helped launch The Global Switchboard as a project of Amizade and in 2016 accepted the role of Executive director of The Switchboard following our transition to an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization.

    Nathan is a former member of the Welcoming Pittsburgh Advisory Council through the Office of the Mayor for the City of Pittsburgh, and the host and organizer of CreativeMornings Pittsburgh, a breakfast lecture series for the creative community.

  9. The Global Switchboard

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    The Global Switchboard is a 501(c)3 organization that stewards a diverse network of people and organizations to transform the Pittsburgh region into a more globally engaged and equitable community.

    The Global Switchboard strives to build a region where all people value diversity, practice empathy, and work together to build a more just and peaceful world.

  10. Alaa Mohamed

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    Alaa is an Egyptian-American who obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Bachelor of Philosophy in Global Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. After graduation, she became a PULSE fellow and served at The Global Switchboard. Following her year of service, she joined The Global Switchboard team full time.

    Alaa loves the city of Pittsburgh and maintains an active role in the community by volunteering at different organizations like the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh (ICP), and serves on the board of Pennsylvania Council for International Education (PACIE).

  11. Brandon Blache Cohen

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    Brandon Blache-Cohen, named one of Pittsburgh’s 40 under 40 in 2012, has over ten years of experience in the nonprofit, service-learning, and international education sectors. Blache-Cohen first began experimenting with social entrepreneurship and service-learning while an undergraduate at the University of Pittsburgh. After sailing on Semester at Sea, he combined his passions of travel and social justice by helping to create a student-initiated NGO, FORGE. As Associate Director of FORGE he worked in three refugee camps in Zambia and Botswana on a slew of small-scale development projects. Since then, Blache-Cohen has worked in development for the Tahirih Justice Center in Washington, DC, as a researcher and program assistant for aids2031 in Worcester, MA, and as a consultant for several other small nonprofits and foundations.

    In 2007, Blache-Cohen was named as a Social Change Fellow at Clark University, where he earned an MA in International Development and Social Change, focusing on nonprofit/NGO management. In addition to his work with Amizade, Blache-Cohen was a US delegate to the One Young World Summit in Zurich, Switzerland in 2011, has published several articles on responsible global service-learning in peer-reviewed journals, and since 2009 has sat on a planning committee for the Pittsburgh Holocaust Center. To date, Cohen has worked, studied, or traveled in around 70 countries, and has work authorization in the US and EU.

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