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Pittsburgh Magazine Pittsburghers of the Year


Karen Wolk Feinstein: For shepherding the Jewish Healthcare Foundation from its creation through the sale of the former Montefiore Hospital through its 25-year evolution to national voice for patient safety and healthcare quality. Feinstein and JHF have been at the forefront of major social movements to reform health care in Pittsburgh and beyond, and the dawn of 2016 brings additional foundation programs aimed at organizing communities, activating patients to take control of their own healthcare and educating healthcare leaders of tomorrow.
 
Morgan O'Brien: The Peoples Gas CEO and Allegheny Conference chairman is our region's foremost economic development champion, investing his time and resources to an intense job creation agenda aimed at "sustainable prosperity for all" as well as a long list of community causes. As the head of the largest natural gas distribution company in Pennsylvania, Morgan asserts a broad-based vision in which Pittsburgh's emergence as a leading energy center is leveraged to create a healthy and diverse economic base based on innovation and technology. 
Billy Porter: For his artistic talent, triumphs and ongoing support and promotion of the arts in Pittsburgh and nationally as a Broadway, film and television actor, coach and teacher. A native of East Liberty and graduate of Pittsburgh CAPA and Carnegie Mellon University, Porter overcame humble beginnings and discrimination while growing up black, gay and Christian and went on to forge a successful, award-winner career as a performer in multiple disciplines. For returning in 2015 to Pittsburgh to reprise his Tony Award-winning role in “Kinky Boots,” in the process inspiring audiences and would-be artists with his mantra: “Walk through the door that’s open.”
 

11/18/2015

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