The Partnerships of Distinction awards recognize outstanding partnerships that are exemplars of community engagement. Honorees demonstrate reciprocity, mutual benefit and significant community impact.
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2026 CESF
Bracuí Community Engagement Partnership: History, Memory, and Justice
University Center for International Studies Center for Latin American Studies, Associação dos Remanescentes Quilombolas de Santa Rita do Bracuí, AfrOrigins
The Bracuí Community Engagement Partnership is a long-term collaboration between the University of Pittsburgh and the Quilombo of Bracuí, a community of descendants of enslaved Africans located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Active for more than two decades, the partnership is anchored through Pitt's Center for Latin American Studies in the University Center for International Studies, the Associação dos Remanescentes Quilombolas de Santa Rita do Bracuí and AfrOrigins. The Bracuí partnership stands as a model of reciprocal, community-centered engagement, where Quilombo members serve as co-creators and partners helping to set research priorities and contribute directly to archaeological work. Collaborative research supported the community's successful pursuit of official quilombo recognition and continues to advance land rights and reparations efforts. Pitt students and faculty gain hands-on, ethical field experience, while the community builds lasting capacity through training, increased visibility and expanded access to funding.
Data Justice for Pittsburgh's Black Neighborhoods
University Center for Social and Urban Research, School of Medicine, School of Public Health, Black Equity Coalition, City of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon Create Lab, Larimer Consensus Group, UrbanKind Institute
Data Justice for Pittsburgh's Black Neighborhoods is a community-driven initiative led by the Black Equity Coalition (BEC) in partnership with the University of Pittsburgh, the City of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University's Create Lab, the Larimer Consensus Group, the UrbanKind Institute and independent health professionals. The initiative works to build decision-making power for Black Pittsburghers who have historically been excluded from conversations about how data is collected, used, governed, and disseminated. Community members are centered in the work, acting as peers and subject matter experts to help guide workshop topics and ensure that community needs are prioritized. Through transparency and community participation, the initiative has worked to create an infrastructure for residents to hold the City accountable in their data practices and delivery of services.
Social Medicine Fellows Program
School of Medicine, Healthy Village Learning Institute, Braddock Youth Project, Casa San Jose, JADA House International, Oasis Project, Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh, Youth Sports in the Hill
The Social Medicine Fellows Program (SMFP) at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is a year-long experiential training program that prepares medical students to become leaders who bridge the gap between academic medical institutions and communities. Rather than imposing academic priorities, fellows follow community-identified needs and work alongside the organizations they serve. Fellows are paired with community organizations including the Healthy Village Learning Institute, Braddock Youth Project, Casa San Jose, JADA House International, the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh, and Youth Sports in the Hill. In the phased program, fellows begin by volunteering at community events and hosting health education workshops and screenings, allowing them to build trust before co-designing a longer-term project aligned with the organization's mission. Launched in 2017 from student advocacy, the program has trained 102 fellows to date across six historically marginalized Pittsburgh neighborhoods: Braddock, Hazelwood, Hill District, Homewood, McKeesport and South Hills.
2025 CESF
Making the World a Better Place to Grow Old (Healthy Home Laboratory)
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences and Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh
The world is growing old, and the Pittsburgh community is not “built,” physically or culturally, to easily promote aging in place. The purpose of the University of Pittsburgh Healthy Home Laboratory (HHL), through a rich partnership with Age-Friendly Greater Pittsburgh (AFGP), is to create and implement new technology solutions and support services that enable people, particularly older adults, to live independently and safely at home. Anchored by a shared goal of improving the health and well-being of adults across the lifespan in the region, the HHL and AFGP collaborate on activities of impact that promote aging through a positive lens.
Dental Assistant Training Program
School of Dental Medicine and Three Rivers Alliance of Community Health Centers
Recognizing this critical need for trained dental assistants in the United States, Pitt Dental Medicine developed the Dental Assistant Training Program. In July 2024, after the program’s initial trainee cohort completed the pilot of the program, Pitt Dental in collaboration with Three Rivers Alliance of Community Health Centers (TRACHC) and several community partners expanded and launched the Dental Assistant Training Program as a hybrid training program with the purpose of training more dental assistants to help solve the tremendous shortage of dental assistants in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; expanding access to care in rural areas by training dental assistants in communities where they live, without requiring relocation for schooling, so that they are more likely to stay in their communities and be employed as healthcare professionals; and helping to elevate young people who will complete the program and work in the healthcare industry in jobs with sustainable wages.
Partnerships for Family Support
Office of Child Development and the Allegheny County Department of Human Services
Since 1996, as a collaboration between Pitt’s Office of Child Development and the Allegheny County Department of Human Services Office of Community Services, Partnerships for Family Support (PFS) provides learning and development for staff and families with the Allegheny Family Center Network. Over decades, research and professional development topics have included leadership, and advocacy mentoring, child development, taking a strengths-based approach to family support, and building on protective factors. Additionally, the PFS project offers technical assistance to family center directors for family and child programming, center operations, and recruitment. Through all these activities, Pitt students have had opportunities to be involved and develop their community engagement skills for future careers that often serve the county as well. PFS serves as an example of how long-term, trusting partnerships between the University and county government can be mutually beneficial and help children and families in our region thrive.
2024 CESF
Appalachian Bridges to the Future: Resilience in Fayette County
The primary objective of this partnership is to unite Pitt faculty (via the David C. Frederick Honors College) with the Fayette County Cultural Trust (FCCT) to assess and begin to address the causes and consequences of outmigration of higher educated and skilled individuals from Fayette County, PA, an economically distressed area located about an hour’s drive from Pitt’s Oakland campus. Central to this goal is the creation of a lasting positive relationship with the FCCT and other community stakeholders that will allow us to provide research and programmatic support to the residents of Fayette County while also addressing our central research topics and providing an opportunity for undergraduate students to engage in ethical community-based research.
Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program
For over two decades, the Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program (GLPP) of the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy has been a beacon of compassion, delivering pharmacy services to the most vulnerable populations in the Pittsburgh region—those experiencing homlessness, the working poor, the underinsured, and the uninsured. Rooted in the belief that every person deserves quality healthcare and medications delivered with dignity, the GLPP has made it its duty to make this care available whenever possible.
The CHURCH (Congregations as Healers United to Restore Community Health)
The CHURCH project is a Community-Partnered Participatory Research (CPPR) project in which Pitt researchers collaborate with African American faith leaders in Homewood, PA, to develop, implement, and evaluate a mental health training curriculum (e.g., Renew Your Mind) that can be delivered in Black churches. The training includes four 90-minute training modules based on cognitive behavioral therapy principles, which have been culturally tailored by incorporating spirituality and African American sacred music through collaboration with African American clergy and local Black church musicians. The training seeks to increase faith leaders’ mental health knowledge and self-efficacy in educating congregational members about evidence-based strategies to manage mental distress resulting from daily stressors.
Partnership to Watch: SWAY (Supporting Wellbeing with Autistic Adults through Yoga)
Research shows that autistic adults are likely to have poorer mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing, as well as participate in less physical and community activity, than typical adults. SWAY (Supporting Wellbeing with Autistic Adults through Yoga) is a community-based yoga program designed with and for autistic adults to support their mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing.
After receiving funding from Pitt Momentum Funds in spring of 2023, Pitt collaborators with research expertise in yoga, autism, and wellbeing, met monthly with community collaborators from Open Up Pittsburgh, a nonprofit whose mission is to teach mindfulness tools through movement practices and interactive arts while centering people living with disabilities, to co-design the SWAY yoga program and research study of its effectiveness in supporting wellbeing in autistic adults. The pilot weekly SWAY class—Open Up’s most highly attended class—serves as an opportunity to observe and connect with instructors and participants as well as to collect feedback and data to help improve the course offerings and effectiveness.
2023 CESF
Genius, Love, and Joy Summer Academy
Valerie Kinloch, the Renée and Richard Goldman Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education, created the Genius, Joy, and Love Summer Academy, a four-week program that inspires and encourages students to become educators. Guest speakers from Pitt, Pittsburgh and schools around the country discussed the importance of teaching with 14 Pittsburgh Public Schools students.
In This Together Cambria
In This Together Cambria is a nonprofit group of civically engaged citizens, local leaders and community members who worked to help reduce COVID-19 cases in Cambria County. The group’s advocacy committee engaged with regional leaders, sharing evidence-based, community-led solutions to slow the virus’ spread. The storytelling committee collected and shared testimonials from community members about how the pandemic affected them to promote public health and encourage empathy, action and healing.
Measuring Up: Grading Drinking Water Quality, Affordability, and Transparency Practices in Allegheny County Water Systems
When Women for a Healthy Environment (WHE) published “Something’s in the Water: A System Analysis on Quality and Transparency in Allegheny County Community Water Systems” in April 2021, an interdisciplinary team at Pitt partnered with the group to investigate its report’s findings. The group investigated the availability of affordable and clean water for residents across Allegheny County’s 36 community water systems and the transparency of the community water systems practice to ratepayers. Together, WHE and the Pitt collaborators generated a report that discusses the partnership’s results and provides recommendations for moving forward.
2022 CESF
The Pittsburgh Study K-3rd grade 3Rs: Reading, Racial Equity, Relationships
As part of the Pittsburgh Study, a community-driven intervention study to enhance youth thriving, The Early School Age Cohort has developed a new literacy initiative focused on reading, racial equity, and relationships for kindergarten - 3rd grade students in Allegheny County.
The 3Rs Initiative uses a 4-strand approach to support the entire early literacy ecosystem by working with families, classroom teachers, community organizations, and local leaders. A foundational tenet of the 3Rs is that high-quality literacy experiences are inextricably linked to living in an equitable society and having strong relationships between children, adults, and organizations. The 3Rs team believes that enhancing children’s literacy experiences begins with partnering with adults. We have two main strategies for creating meaningful opportunities for adults to develop their knowledge and practices around reading, racial equity, and relationships: (1) Picture Books and (2) Communities of Practice.
Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh Youth Art Program (BCAP YAP)
This partnership was forged by Pitt students, many of whom are first-generation immigrants and first- generation American college students, with the goal to strengthen the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh (BCAP). BCAP consists of Bhutanese and Nepali refugees and is one of the largest and most cohesive immigrant organizations in Pittsburgh. 2022 will be the third year of this partnership and we will not only expand on our existing work, but actively ensure that this partnership will remain strong for upcoming years.
This BCAP Youth Art Program (BCAP YAP) provides services to an underserved population while directly and indirectly combating social issues like racism and inequality. During the pandemic, students received irregular and disrupted education. Groups like refugees and immigrants already are at a disadvantage and do not have access to “luxuries” like music and art. BCAP YAP fills in these gaps and provides additional enrichment to an underserved demographic.
BCAP YAP exemplifies the ideals of both the University of Pittsburgh and BCAP. All individuals involved in this partnership want to empower the next generation of young students while supporting their families in any way possible.
The Allegheny County Policing Project
The ACPP team is made up of a subset of members from Grief to Action (G2A), a working group at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Analytical Approaches in Social Innovation (CAASI). Grief to Action started in the summer of 2020 in the wake of George Floyd's murder to use data analysis to address structural racism in Pittsburgh and beyond. The aim of the ACPP project is to bring more transparency to the police accountability process at the local level.
2021 CESF
The Pittsburgh Data Jam
The Pittsburgh Data Jam is an academic competition for high school students in the Pittsburgh region, which focuses on teaching about the use of big data to answer a research question. Operating in many local Allegheny County high schools, the program is set up in such a way that students work in teams of five to seven students to formulate a research question, find publicly available data sets, analyze their data, make data visualizations, and present their findings to a panel of judges. Students learn skills pertaining to the scientific method, data analysis, and how to give scientific presentations. In this regard, high school students are benefitting from this education in data analytics, and the Pittsburgh business community is benefitting as more young people become interested in data analytics to provide a future workforce. Development of the Data Jam and core curricula to train Data Jam mentors, as well as its current work to develop a curriculum that ties the Data Jam concept to math, computer science, statistics, and science courses in high school, are critical steps needed to make education in data science much more broadly available throughout the U.S. and worldwide.
Partnership Contact: Judy Cameron, Director of Pitt Science Outreach
Justice Scholars Institute
The Justice Scholars Institute is a partnership between the University of Pittsburgh and Westinghouse Academy. In collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh’s College in High School (CHS) program, Justice Scholars provides a rigorous college preparation program for students in the ninth through 12th grades. The program implements a culture of college expectations for high school students who may otherwise have little opportunity for college exposure opportunities. A primary program component is the opportunity for the students to earn college credit through University of Pittsburgh courses. In addition to the courses, the institute offers college preparation support, opportunities for community engagement, and various resources that make a successful college transition more tenable.
Partnership Contacts: Esohe Osia, Assistant Professor of Practice, and Greg Latshaw, Director of Marketing and Communications, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh
PittPharmacy: SilverScripts
SilverScripts is a longitudinal Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience for first- and second-year student pharmacists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy. SilverScripts provides an early immersion experience for student pharmacists to practice pharmaceutical care with older adults at community centers serving local Pittsburgh seniors. To achieve its mission to help seniors better manage their medications, the program partners with over 20 local senior community centers. At SilverScripts, student pharmacists offer comprehensive medication reviews, blood pressure assessments, and safe medication disposal to help nearly 250 seniors better manage their medications. Student pharmacists are precepted on-site by more than 25 participating PittPharmacy faculty, staff, residents, and fellows assisted by more than 10 practice-ready student pharmacists. In the fall academic term, student pharmacists expand upon their relationships established in the spring term to work collaboratively with students from other healthcare disciplines at the University of Pittsburgh including audiology, dental medicine, nursing, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, and social work.
Partnership Contact: Lucas Berenbrok, Assistant Professor, Pharmacy and Therapeutics, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh
Food Ecosystems Honors Scholar Community
Pitt Honors Scholar Communities are collaborations between faculty and students to confront some of the most critical challenges that touch our lives. The Food Ecosystems Scholar Community examines the global food system through the lenses of agriculture, engineering, environmental science, data, economics, public health, law, policy, humanities, urban planning, and community development in partnership with Food21. The mission of Food21 is to enable our region to become a resilient, self-sustaining, and inclusive food economy. Together Pitt Honors and Food21 will explore issues such as food insecurity; resilience across the food ecosystem; expanding jobs and economic opportunity in the food economy; sustainability through the applications of clean and cost-effective use of energy; equity and inclusive participation in the food economy; and environmental responsibility of food production and processing. These efforts will use data analytics to better understand our food ecosystem and apply this knowledge to create meaningful economic, social, environmental, and policy change related to food. By developing a diverse network of faculty performing research related to issues critical to food ecosystems, a myriad of undergraduate research opportunities become available to students that can provide critical insights for the larger region.
Partnership Contact: Everett Herman, Director of Student and Faculty Engagement, Pitt Honors College
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project
Hemispheric Conversations Urban Art Project (HCUAP) partners University of Pittsburgh staff, faculty and students with arts and education organizations in the Pittsburgh area and artists and scholars from national and international institutions. Founded in 2016, the program creates shared opportunities for youth and adult arts education; public conversations about art, activism and social justice; mentorship and networking opportunities for underrepresented artists; and site-specific murals across the city. HCUAP offers three-pronged and synthetic programming: youth workshops, mural production, and public conversations to use dialogue about the arts as a prism for addressing larger community needs. Its model is to work with established local organizations that work in the area of afterschool arts programming, artist development, and education contributing a focus on urban art and public space by generating curricula, mentoring teaching artists, producing murals, and creating larger conversations about just urban governance. Primary activities are organizing youth street art workshops, public conversations, and artist residencies that culminate in murals and gallery shows. All programming is free.
Partnership Contact: Caitlin Bruce, Assistant Professor of Communication, Department of Communication, University of Pittsburgh
2020 CESF
Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center
Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) is a partnership of the University of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and the City of Pittsburgh. Since 2015, WPRDC has managed a shared community open-data portal containing more than 300 data sets provided by the county, the city, the University, and more than 15 other public and nonprofit partners including Port Authority of Allegheny County, the Pittsburgh Parking Authority, and BikePGH. This partnership assists people in using the portal to understand their communities, support decisionmaking processes, influence policy, and enhance educational experiences. Data provided by the WPRDC have been used to support land-banking efforts in the county, inform the work of community development organizations like Operation Better Block in Homewood, and develop affordable housing strategies at the city’s Urban Redevelopment Authority.
Partnership contact: Robert Gradeck, project manager, Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center
HealthyCHILD
HealthyCHILD is a partnership between the Pitt School of Education and multiple early childhood education programs that aims to help teachers develop skills to address child behaviors in the classroom that often result from trauma, mental health challenges, and racial discrimination. In the past, suspensions and expulsions were common in early childhood classrooms. This partnership aims to decrease those practices to help teachers keep children in the classroom and engaged in learning. Now approaching its fifth year, this partnership has continued to enhance the services and supports provided by early childhood education programs to reach 4,000 local children per year and 20,000 local children since 2015. Using a collaborative consultation and problem-solving model along with an improvement science framework to identify problems of practice and implement small tests of change, HealthyCHILD is focused on working to disrupt the status quo and eliminate inequities.
Partnership contact: Tracy Larson, director of early childhood partnerships and HealthyCHILD, University of Pittsburgh School of Education
Research for Equity and Power: A Pitt-Homewood Partnership to Foster Resident Civic Engagement around Equitable Development
Research for Equity and Power: A Pitt-Homewood Partnership to Foster Resident Civic Engagement around Equitable Development is a partnership between Pitt’s School of Social Work and the Homewood Children Village (HCV). The collaboration fosters civic engagement among residents to influence equitable development, including understanding their experiences with neighborhood change and perceptions of policymakers regarding residents’ influence. The University-community collaboration is essential to this project due to the nature of the work. While Pitt brings expertise in community research, organizing, and development, HCV brings community relationships and experience, which ensures that the work is relevant to residents and community organizations. The project uses community-based participatory research methods to create power among partners and participants that can be used to direct resources and influence policies that benefit the community. The collaborative approach is woven throughout the structure of the project, with a resident-driven community advisory board, a community researcher from Homewood, and youth and adult resident researchers and advocates. This research effort also aims to positively influence community development organizations and the implementation of the equitable development goals addressed by the City of Pittsburgh and community planning efforts.
Partnership contact: Mary Ohmer, associate professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work
Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education
Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education is a collaboration between the University Honors College and the Alliance for Refugee Youth Support and Education (ARYSE). Through two clubs, Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment and Keep It Real, University Honors College students have partnered with refugee communities and to tutor refugee families in their homes. In 2013, a partnership with ARYSE was established to create the Pittsburgh Refugee Youth Summer Enrichment (PRYSE) Academy Each summer, PRYSE Academy offers a day camp for refugee and immigrant youths to work on creative expression, the development of community and identity; and, of course, to improve their English skills. The purpose of this collaboration is to support ARYSE’s work to fill a resource gap in working with refugee youths in their journey toward becoming more confident and connected members of their Pittsburgh communities.
Partnership contact: Holly Hickling, academic community engagement advisor, University Honors College
Reducing Suicide in Homeless and Low-income Youth through a School-based Socio-emotional Learning Curriculum
Reducing Suicide in Homeless and Low-income Youth through a School-based Socio-emotional Learning Curriculum is a partnership between the Pitt Department of Pediatrics’ Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine and the Homeless Children’s Education Fund. The primary purpose is to deliver a socio-emotional curriculum entitled, Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training for Emotional Problem Solving for Adolescents (DBT STEPS-A), in low-resource schools. DBT STEPS-A teaches high school students evidence-based skills for mental health. Beginning in January 2019, DBT STEPS-A has been implemented in two high schools serving students with high rates of adversity, poverty, and homelessness. Guided by a focus on collaborative design and decision making, this program supports the mental health of the most vulnerable youths.
Partnership contact: Carla Chugani, assistant professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Pediatrics
Live Longer: Empowering and Engaging Pittsburgh Communities Project
The Live Longer: Empowering and Engaging Pittsburgh Communities Project is a collaboration between Pitt Public Health and Community Empowerment Association (CEA), a grassroots organization. The purpose of the project is to develop a series of educational, community-sharing, and strategic engagements involving residents and stakeholders in select Pittsburgh neighborhoods that are characterized by high levels of health, social, and economic disparities in order to heighten the communities’ understanding of health equity and its importance in achieving a dignified life. CEA invites community participants to prioritize likely factors to be addressed based on their shared experience. The importance and value of their voices are maintained and used as part of the data collection. Pitt Public Health representatives prepare documentation, collect data, and directly present material within their areas of expertise. The project seeks to resolve high-priority social and environmental disparities. The principal operational goal is to develop an implementation plan or plans based on the findings.
Partnership contact: Noble Maseru, professor of the behavioral and community health sciences, director of the Center for Health Equity, and associate dean for diversity and inclusion, Pitt Public Health
2019 CESF
Just Discipline Project at Woodland Hills
To address the problem of high suspension rates in Allegheny County schools, particularly among black students, a partnership between the School of Social Work’s Center on Race and Social Problems, the School of Education’s Motivation Center, and the Woodland Hills School District developed a comprehensive school climate and discipline intervention that began in the fall of 2017.
Participating in the project were: from the School of Social work were James P. Huguley, assistant professor; Shawn E. Thomas, restorative practice coordinator; Rachelle H. Haynik, research and evaluation coordinator; Shante Stuart McQueen, postdoctoral fellow; Dashawna Fussell-Ware, graduate research assistant; Rebecca Calaman, undergraduate research assistant; and Theresa DePace, undergraduate social work intern.
Other participants included Ming-Te Wang, associate professor, School of Education, and from the Woodland Hills School District, James P. Harris, superintendent; Allison Kline, principal, and more than 40 teachers and staff at the Woodland Hills Intermediate School.
AIDS Free Pittsburgh
AFP is a collaborative initiative comprised of government agencies, healthcare institutions, and community-based organizations that strive to support people affected by HIV/AIDS and end the AIDS epidemic in Allegheny County by 2020.
Several health organizations from throughout the county participated in this project. The participants from Pitt came from:
School of Medicine: April Churilla, Ken Ho, Deborah McMahon, and John Mellors, all Department of Medicine; Darren Whitfield, School of Social Work and Department of Psychiatry, Adrienne Walnoha, Psychiatry, and Harold Wiesenfeld, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health: James Egan, Mary Hawk, and Ron Stall, Behavioral and Community Health Sciences; and Linda Frank and Mackey Friedman, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology
Mascaro Center for Sustainable Innovation Partnership with the Kingsley Association
This partnership has been active since 2009 across a range of sustainability innovations, including the development of multi-generational, sustainable housing approaches to energy assessments, energy retrofits, and most recently, the Environmental Justice Community Alert Matrix. EJCAM was designed to inform residents about environmental risks within their communities and provide them with practical responses to mitigate risks.
Partnership members include: Melissa Bilec, deputy director, Mascaro Center and associate Professor, civil and environmental engineering; Harold Rickenbacker, civil and environmental engineering grad student; Malik G. Bankston, executive director, Kingsley Association; and Fred Brown, former associate director of program development, Kingsley Association, and current president, Forbes Fund.
Black Girls Advocacy and Leadership Alliance
This partnership, which is part of the Black Girls Equity Alliance, fosters community-based participatory research and advocacy to address the systemic inequities affecting black girls in the region.
Partnership members include: Kathi Elliott, Executive Director, Gwen's Girls; Convener, Black Girls Equity Alliance; Amanda Cross, Office of Child Development; Willa Doswell and Betty Braxter, School of Nursing; Alannah Caisey, doctoral student, Department of Sociology; and from the School of Social Work: Professor Sara Goodkind and masters students Edoukou Aka-Ezoua, Porscha Adams, Shenika McAlister, and ShaRae Edmonds.
Parks and the Pittsburgh EcoSystem
This partnership is a collaboration between the Department of Geology and Environmental Science and the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy to address challenges ranging from combined sewer overflows to social equity.
Partners include: Erin Copeland, senior restoration ecologist, Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, and Daniel Bain, associate director, Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education and Outreach, Department of Geology and Environmental Science.