Community
The Community Section is about “good stuff” going on in the world, locally and nationally. Whether it’s a do-gooder or an organization that is giving back to the community, for profit or nonprofit, we want to know! Email us your “good stuff” at info@bizchicks.org and we’ll check it out. When emailing us, reference in the subject line: GOOD STUFF.
Q&A: ADRIANE DEITHORN: Where Fitness & Beauty Collides
My name is Adriane Deithorn and I work at Dicks Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon as a senior level manager and Director of Development. I’m 38 and grew up in Greensburg, PA. My biggest passion in life is to help people become successful.
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Q&A: Kelsey Halling
I came to Pittsburgh by way of the Philadelphia suburbs, fell in love with this city, and haven’t looked back. I work with some amazing people at a social venture start-up called Thread, which transforms waste into marketable products, therefor creating jobs and opportunities for the places in the world that need it most.
Q&A: Erin Hart
I’m married with 3 kids. I’m a typical Pittsburgher – I’ve worked with my dad for 18 years and I bought my Grandma’s house.
Global Girl, Kelly Sobczak
By: Emily Bush & Beth Slagle
Imagine that it is September 10, 2001 and you have just landed in Pakistan. You spend the first day making it to your hotel, getting settled and finding a place to eat. The next morning, you wake, only to find that there was an extreme terrorist attack on the United States – your home.
Jennifer Cairns: Full Contact – Litigator & Football Player
By: Emily Bush, Chelsey Hennemuth & Beth Slagle, Esquire
Jennifer Cairns leads a double life – she is a fierce litigation attorney for McGuireWoods LLP, and she is an equally fierce defensive back for the Pittsburgh Passion, the full contact women’s professional football team. Not to mention she recently added another big life change into the mix – the role of mom.
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LISA CORBETT: SUCCESS IS NOT A TITLE OR A SALARY
By: Kirstin Kennedy & Beth Slagle, Esquire
Lisa Corbett is inspiring. She’s gorgeous, strong-willed, savvy and intelligent. You know the type — the kind of person women get jealous of. She is also the epitome of reinvention, something to which many aspire but do not have the courage to follow their dream.
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Food Should be Good: An Interview with Restaurant Critic, China Millman
By: Kirstin Kennedy & Beth Slagle
If you are a Pittsburgher who frequents the fine dining scene throughout the city, you have, undoubtedly, heard of China Millman, the resident restaurant citric for The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Readers of her weekly restaurant review are provided with a total immersion into the food scene – from flavors and smells to service, ambiance and lighting.
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Introducing the BizChicks Interns
BizChicks proudly introduces its amazingly talented summer interns.
Megan Shellenberger , Emily Bush, Kirstin Kennedy and Chelsey Hennemuth
With diverse backgrounds, they all have one thing in common, BizChicks!
Starting several weeks ago, Megan, Emily, Kirstin and Chelsey have been hard at work doing graphics, researching, writing and editing articles, video blogging and brainstorming! It’s such a treat to work with such creative interns.
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Q&A: Emily Monroe
I am a writer and an artist, and I must admit, a bit of a vagabond, too. I am 25 years old and right now, I am working as a 4th grade teacher in a small town in the Honduras and I am madly in love with the culture, people, and scenery here. I spend my free time painting, writing, trying to learn Spanish, and running my website, End the Silence Campaign, a place for survivors of sexual violence to share their stories, poetry, and art. Last year, I worked as the Director of Programs for Reading Is FUNdamental Pittsburgh, and prior to that , I taught English in Guyana, South America. I am a Pittsburgh girl, born and raised, and my heart still belongs to that secretly awesome city.
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Here’s to you – Jane Workingwoman!
This week we profile every working woman in America. We’ll call her “Jane.”
Jane may be married or single, a mother or a daughter … she is definitely a sister. Jane works as a professional, a laborer, a nurse, teacher and at a big-box store. She works hard every day, balancing the needs of her job, her family and her community. Jane falls asleep at night – sometimes on the sofa while she watches a movie on Lifetime.
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Q&A: Rita Wirth
A little about me: I’m married to Rick Wirth. After graduating from Duquesne University, I began a career in consumer product sales. After 5 years and several sales awards and a promotion to national accounts manager, I decided I needed more of a challenge, so I pursued a position in medical sales. I spent 15 years as an Executive Sales Representative and Trainer, winning many sales and marketing awards for Fortune 500 companies such as Kimberly Clark, Johnson and Johnson and Quest Diagnostics.
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Q&A: Kimberly Wilson
I am a teacher, writer, do-gooder, entrepreneur, and eco-fashion designer currently obsessed with Paris, potbelly pigs, and all things sparkly. She is the creative director and founder of tranquil space – named among the top 25 yoga studios in the world by Travel + Leisure, author of Hip Tranquil Chick and Tranquilista, and holds a Master’s in Women’s Studies.
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Q&A: Julie-Butcher-Pezzino
I grew up in a farming community and took it as common that people shopped at farmer’s markets and ate lots of fresh fruits and vegetables. When I went away to college in Washington, DC, I learned that was not at all the case. I started working in sustainable agriculture and became intrigued by the concept of urban agriculture. I started interning at Grow Pittsburgh while in graduate school at Carnegie Mellon and realized this organization had so much to offer the City of Pittsburgh. What keeps me coming back are the boundless opportunities that urban agriculture can create, the great people that I have the privilege to work with, and the belief that we can do so much more to feed ourselves right here in the city.
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Q&A: Sonja Finn
I am the Chef and Owner of Dinette restaurant in East Liberty. My family moved to Pittsburgh when I was 12 and I attended Reizenstein and Allderdice and then left for college. My parents still live here. I moved back to Pittsburgh in 2008 after 11 years away and live in Point Breeze with my husband, Jim Tinsley.
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Q&A: Regina Anderson
I grew up in Maine. I moved to Pittsburgh a little over six years ago, and I love it here. I love to volunteer and to help people connect to other people, groups, or volunteering opportunities.
I sit on a few nonprofit boards. The Midwife Center, Planned Parenthood of Western PA, and WYEP for example. I love the mission of each of these three organizations and really see where I can help those groups achieve their goals.
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Q&A: Porsche Foxx
Founder of the Porsche Foxx Community Force (PFCF) in Atlanta.
Of course, what we put out into the world comes back to us; and, to that end, I am humbled and blessed to have been recognized in Atlanta and the state of Georgia: each June 6th is Porsche Foxx Day was declared and I was also honored to be named to the list of “Atlanta’s Top 100 Black Women of Influence.”
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Q&A: Mary Lee Gannon
President, St. Margaret Foundation
I am president of St. Margaret Foundation at UPMC St. Margaret Hospital, the third hospital in Pittsburgh where I have had the honor to lead in such a capacity.
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