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
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