B-PEP Jazz
Host Committee

Chair:   Cassandra Cooper, VP, Diversity & Inclusion Manager, First National Bank
Honorary Chair:   Jack Bogut, Legendary Pittsburgh Media Personality

• Arthur L. & The Hon. Cynthia A. Baldwin
• Kenya Boswell, Sr., VP Community Affairs, Highmark Health
• Dr. Quintin B. Bullock, President, Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC)
• Janis Burley, President and CEO August Wilson African American Cultural Center
• Esther L. Bush, President & CEO, Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh
• Jackie Dixon, Regional Asset Distrect (RAD) board member
• Dr. Edmund Effort, DDS & Elaine Effort
• Bill Flanagan, Host/Producer, WPXI’s “Our Region’s Business”
• Evan Frazier, President & CEO, The Advanced Leadership Institute
• Dr. Leon Haley, former Dean, Graduate School of Public & International Affairs, Pitt
• Peggy Harris, President & CEO, Three Rivers Youth
• Dr. Rahmon Hart, Director of Community Relations, Rivers Casino
• Dr. Kathy S. Wilson Humphrey, President, Carlow University
• Kevin L. Jenkins, President & CEO, Manchester Bidwell Corporation
• Katharine Eagan Kelleman, CEO, Port Authority of Allegheny County
• Dr. Linda S. Lane, former Superintendent, Pittsburgh Public Schools
• Claudette Lewis
• Mark Lewis, President & CEO, The POISE Foundation
• Hon. Timothy K. Lewis, former U.S. District Judge
• Marcia Martin, former VP, Corporate Social Responsibility, Highmark Wholecare
• Carol Neyland, former Sr. VP Community Development, Dollar Bank
• Jeff Nobers, Executive Director, Builders Guild of W. PA
• Dan Onorato, Executive VP Corporate Affairs, Highmark Health
• Ronald D. Porter, RDP Consulting Service
• Angela Reynolds, President, YWCA of Greater Pittsburgh
• A. Odell Richardson, Executive Director, Pittsburgh Community Services, Inc.
• Hon. Valerie McDonald Roberts, former elected official of Allegheny Co, City of Pgh, and PPS
• Hon. Doug Shields, former Pittsburgh City Councilman
• William “Jack” Simmons, Esq., Former Director, Shuman Juvenile Detention Ctr
• Dave Soltesz, President, Pittsburgh Penguins Foundation
• Greg Spencer, Managing Director, Spencer MacCleary & Associates, LLC
• Morton Stanfield, Jr., Sr. VP Community Development, Dollar Bank
• Dr. Marcia Sturdivant, President & CEO, NEED
• Dr. James E. Taylor, Chief Diversity Inclusion & Learning Officer, UPMC
• J.T. Thomas, Steeler Superbowl Champion #24
• Nancy Washington, Allegheny Housing RehabilitationCorporation (ARCHO)
• Joy Maxberry Woodruff, Director, Pittsburgh “Do the Write Thing”