Kirk Holbrook, Director
Pitt’s Neighborhood Commitment in the Hill District is led by Community Engagement Center Director Kirk Holbrook. Kirk is a Hill District resident with extensive experience working as a community coordinator, educator and organizer serving Pittsburgh communities since 2001.
Contact Kirk: KDH52@pitt.edu | 412-598-2491 | Full Bio
Hill District Advisory Council
The University’s approach in the Hill District is informed at every stage by an internal advisory council that has identified the educational, research, and capacity-building programs Pitt can commit to the neighborhood and a Hill District Advisory Council of community leaders and residents who guide how the CEC in the Hill District benefits local partners and community members.
Hill Advisory Advisory Council Members
- Paul Abernathy, Director, FOCUS Pittsburgh, resident
- Tyian Battle, Executive Director, ACH Clear Pathways, resident
- Regina Yasmeen Brown, resident
- Ashley Comans, HYPE
- Michele Rone Cooper, Executive Director, McAuley Ministries
- Glenn G. Grayson, Sr. Executive Director, Center That CARES, resident
- Michelle Hardeman, Sugar Top Reunion, resident
- Carol Hardeman, Hill District Consensus Group, resident
- Frankie Harris, Ujamaa Collective, resident
- Kira Henderson, Principal- A. Leo Weil Elementary, resident
- Harry Johnson, Pittsburgh Manager, BMe Community, resident
- Donnie Kyte, IkeWear, resident
- Cheryl Larry, Webster Block Club,resident
- Daniel Lavelle, City of Pittsburgh Council District 6, resident
- Rhonda Lockett, Webster Block Club, resident
- Marimba Milliones, Hill CDC, resident
- James Myers, Jr. , Riverside Innovation Center, resident
- Charles Mosley, Hill District Consensus Group, resident
- Laray Moton, Bedford Dwellings Tenant Council, resident
- Betty Picket, Dinwiddie Community Alliance, resident
- Darelle Porter, Ozanam, Inc
- La’Vette Wagner, PHRESH study
- Lee Walls, Hill District Ministers Alliance
- Jake Wheatley, House of Representatives, Commonwalth of PA, resident
- Trish Gadson, Executive Director, Macedonia FACE
- Leeretta Payne, Legacy Café’ Catering- Owner, resident
- Nadine Masagara-Taylor, Executive Director, The Corner, resident
- Richard Witherspoon, Hill District Federal Credit Union
- Troi Simpson, Executive Director, Hill District Youth Football, resident
- Karla Stallworth, School 2 Career
- Brenda Tate, resident