The Pittsburgh Foundation
Deanna Garcia is an accomplished communications professional with extensive experience in public media. Currently serving as a Communications Officer at The Pittsburgh Foundation since October 2017, Deanna has also been the Acting News Director at 90.5 WESA since October 2011, where responsibilities include planning coverage, assigning stories, and managing a team of reporters. Previous roles at 90.5 WESA include Assistant News Director and Chief Assignment Editor, as well as Senior Reporter focused on Arts and Culture. Deanna's prior experience includes work as the All Things Considered Host/Reporter at KUNC, a Reporter/Program Host at WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, and an intern at NPR. Deanna began a journalism career at KRWG as a Student News Reporter. Deanna holds a B.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications with a focus on Broadcast Journalism from New Mexico State University.
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Established in 1945, The Pittsburgh Foundation is one of the nation’s oldest community foundations and is the 15th largest of more than 750 community foundations across the United States. As a community foundation, our resources comprise endowment funds established by individuals, businesses and organizations with a passion for charitable giving and a deep commitment to the Pittsburgh community. The Foundation currently has more than 2,200 individual donor funds and, together with its supporting organizations, assets of more than $1.2 billion. The Foundation's grants benefit a broad spectrum of community life within Pittsburgh and beyond The Foundation has strengthened its focus on community and the positive impact it strives to achieve through its grantmaking, the engagement of its donors in critical regional issues and its activities around convening and leadership in collaboration with funding and civic partners.