Karen Lamoureux interviews WIL participant Lucinda Wiebe, Family Recruiter for The Children's Institute.

WIL participant Karen Lamoureux describes her experience with Tai Kwon Do, resulting in a black belt.

Dr. Diane Williams, speech pathologist and Assistant Professor at Duquesne University, interviewed by Urmi Ashar. Dr. Williams conducts research in Autism and neuroscience.

Brienne Terril interviews Nieves Stiker, Director of Community Education at Carlow University. Ms. Stiker directs the New Choices/New Options program, which serves 250 single parents per year.

Donna Durno, PhD is interviewed by Karen Lamoureux. Dr. Durno is the recently retired Executive Director of the Allegheny Intermediate Unit.

Kim Wynnyckyj, Marketing Director for Whole Foods Market, is interviewed by Emily Nordquist.

March 14, 2009 interview with Susan Gillette Meer, high school chemistry teacher who inspired interviewee Emilie Delestienne to pursue the sciences in college; the interview explores who influenced and inspired Mrs. Meer and how she continues to influence her students.

Visual Artist, Arts Educator, and Puppet Maker

 

Cheryl Capezzuti is a sculptor, painter, arts educator, and a full time puppet maker in the city of Pittsburgh. As the owner of Studio Capezzuti, her work includes building giant puppets for parades, community events, and educational workshops. Her puppets have been featured in numerous installations, festivals, and parades including First Night Pittsburgh, the Detroit Festival of Arts, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

 

Over the course of her career, Cheryl launched the National Lint Project, which involved creating collections of miniature and human-sized sculptures and puppets made out of drier lint. This project received significant local and national media attention including being featured on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, Good Morning America, and the Ellen Degeneres show.

 

Cheryl also founded Puppets for Pittsburgh, a lending library of giant puppets available to non profits and community groups.

Historian, Carnegie Mellon History Professor, Public Health Activist, Co-Founder of Two Needle Exchange Programs, Board President of Prevention Point Pittsburgh

 

Caroline Acker is a history professor at Carnegie Mellon University, a historian of public health and medicine, and has authored numerous publications with a focus on opiate addiction.

 

She is a public health activist and co- founder of two needle exchange programs, one in California and one in Pittsburgh. The aim of these programs is to provide sterile syringes and other health services to injection drug users with the aim of reducing the spread of HIV, Hepatitis and other blood borne diseases. She currently serves as Board President of Prevention Point Pittsburgh, the only needle exchange program in Southwestern Pennsylvania.

 

Among her many awards, she recently received the Benjamin Rush Individual Public Health Award from the Allegheny County Medical Society for her work with the needle exchange program.

Meredith Colaizzi, Girls on the Run coordinator, interviewed by Amy Kerr Parker.

Lynn Garfinkel, Executive Director of Strong Women, Strong Girls, interviewed by Amy Kerr Parker.

WIL participant Emily Nordquist discusses her interest in mentoring and why she believes it's so important.

WIL participant Breen Masciotra reflects on her experience attending an all-female school and how that affected her view of the world as a woman.

Pathways 2 Success is a project of Women in Leadership, Class XII. Women in Leadership is a program of the Coro Center for Civic Leadership.

Pathways 2 Success is intended to be a public venue for stories from and about women, with particular focus on the obstacles that they have overcome and what inspires them.