Meet the Judges!

An august panel of regional thought leaders will judge the tipping point submissions and determine the winners. 

*The Judges:
Yvonne Campos, Campos Inc.
Moe Coleman, University of Pittsburgh
Lynn DeLorenzo, DeLorenzo & Co. LLC
Kevin Gavin, WDUQ 90.5 FM
Doug Heuck, Pittsburgh Quarterly
Patty Kirkpatrick, Armstrong County Commissioner
Joe Mistick, Duquesne University School of Law
Audrey Murrell, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Murray Rust, Montgomery & Rust, Inc.
Diane Sheets, Butler County Community Development Corporation

Yvonne Campos, Campos Inc.
Yvonne Campos is a nationally-recognized moderator, speaker, and consultant who brings over 25 years of designing, strategizing, and implementing market research for corporations, educational institutions, non-profits and professional organizations. She works directly with major clients as a consultant, moderator, and facilitator. Yvonne’s expertise lies in her ability to listen, engage and synthesize information into actionable market strategies for her clients. She developed her moderating skills over thousands of groups and many market categories. In the past 10 years Yvonne has evolved her group facilitation skills to consulting services in the strategic planning area, peer to peer learning groups, workshops, and customer advisory councils. Her ability to understand client needs, research approaches, and execute insightful facilitation is what makes her so valuable to clients.

Yvonne has received numerous awards for her entrepreneurial spirit and civic engagement. She is consistently included in the Pittsburgh Business Times’ Top Women in Business list. She received the Small Business Administration’s Minority Small Business Person of the Year award (1998) and was selected as the Vectors Pittsburgh Small Business Person of the Year (1999). Four years later, she received the Pennsylvania Chamber’s Small Business Leadership Award, and was selected to participate in Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Inaugural Class of Women Leadership and Power. [more]
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Moe Coleman
Morton Coleman, Ph.D., recently retired as Director of the Institute of Politics at the University of Pittsburgh. Coleman founded the Institute in 1990 a a forum for bringing together public and private decision makers to examine economic, social and political issues in local, state, and national contexts. Until his retirement, Coleman was also Professor in the School of Social Work and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh.

Prior to this, Coleman was President and CEO of Greater Hartford Process, Inc., a non-profit corporation serving as a catalyst and broker for urban development by linking government, business leaders, and neighborhood residents. Before that, he was Dean and Professor for the School of Social Work at the University of Connecticut; Acting Dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Social Work; Personal Advisor to Henry Ford II on urban issues; Secretary to the Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh for Human Resources, Manpower Training, and Poverty Programs; and Senior Social Planner of the Community Renewal Program in the Pittsburgh Department of City Planning. Coleman served earlier as Director of Community Organization and Program Director for the Kingsley Association. [more]
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Lynn DeLorenzo, DeLorenzo & Co. LLC
Lynn DeLorenzo is the principal of DeLorenzo & Co. LLC providing commercial and residential development consulting to both the private and public sector in Pennsylvania and Florida.  She is a partner with Miami, FL-based Star Development Partners on its first Pittsburgh development.  Ms. DeLorenzo lived and worked in Florida for more than 20 years prior to returning to the Pittsburgh area and maintains an active Florida broker license.

Ms. DeLorenzo’s background has been in land acquisitions and sales, and governmental entitlements with primary involvement in master-planned business parks, multi-family and mixed-use developments.  She has been involved with multiple cities in Florida in guiding
economic development policies.  Ms. DeLorenzo is an advocate of integrating green building concepts into the built environment.

Ms. DeLorenzo is a member of the board of directors of NAIOP Pittsburgh and is currently president-elect of the organization.  She is also a member of ULI Pittsburgh serving on its local district council.  
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Kevin Gavin, WDUQ 90.5 FM
In 1976, Kevin joined the staff of DUQ as News Director. DUQ is Pittsburgh's only public radio station with a News Department. Under his leadership and supervision, the News Department has grown sizably in professional staff and regional recognition. In addition to broadcasting NPR (National Public Radio) and PRI (Public Radio International) syndicated news programs, such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Marketplace, DUQ regularly produces local news and public affairs programs under Kevin's direction. News reports and features are regularly produced for national broadcast on NPR and PRI news programs.

Kevin is a Pittsburgh native. As a student at Duquesne University, Kevin worked in the DUQ-FM News Department and was a member of Kappa Tau Alpha, the journalism honors society. He graduated from Duquesne University with a B. A. in Broadcast Journalism, Cum Laude.

As a reporter and producer, Kevin's feature reports have won Golden Quill Awards and Associated Press Broadcast Awards. [more]
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Doug Heuck, Pittsburgh Quarterly
A graduate of Kenyon College, Douglas Heuck has been a Pittsburgh journalist for 25 years. Heuck spent 20 years at the Pittsburgh Press and Post-Gazette, with most of that time as an investigative reporter.  He penned 13 newspaper series, ranging from living on the streets disguised as a homeless man to the last in-depth interview of polio pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk.  In order to help the Pittsburgh region base its decisions on reliable information, Heuck created PG Benchmarks, a newspaper project which compared Pittsburgh with 14 other metro areas in 75 measures.  He left the newspaper in 2005 and founded Pittsburgh Quarterly magazine, judged the region’s best magazine for four years in a row by the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania.  Heuck is also executive director of Pittsburgh Today, which measures regional progress at Pittsburghtoday.org.
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Patty Kirkpatrick, Armstrong County Commissioner
Armstrong County Commissioner Patty Kirkpatrick was elected in 2003 and became the first female Commissioner elected in the county’s 204 year history.  She is currently serving her second term as Chairman of the Board of Commissioners.  Patty graduated from Shannock Valley High School and holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

She serves on the Executive Committee of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission and as a Board member for the following organizations; Lutheran Senior Life Foundation., Armstrong County Conservation District, Armstrong County Industrial Development Council, Penn’s Corner, HAVIN’s VAWA Advisory Board, Healthy Armstrong, Armstrong County Forum for Workforce Excellence and the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute of Politics Board of Fellows. She has been recently appointed by Governor Rendell to serve on the PennSERVE Community Service Advisory Board.

She is a resident of Cowanshannock Township along with her husband Denny and sons Kyle and Colin.
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Joe Mistick, Duquesne University School of Law
Professor Mistick graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1971 with a B.A. degree and from Duquesne University School of Law in 1979 with a Juris Doctor degree and has been admitted to practice before all Pennsylvania and federal courts. He was named Director of Clinical Legal Education in 1996 and created the award-winning Economic & Community Development Law Clinic. In addition to local recognition for its development assistance in urban neighborhoods, HUD recently cited the ECD Clinic as a national model program of its type. More recently, Criminal Advocacy and Civil & Family Law Clinics have been added to the in-house program.

Prior to joining the full-time faculty, Professor Mistick spent three years as Executive Secretary to the Mayor of Pittsburgh. [more]
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Audrey Murrell, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Audrey J. Murrell conducts research, teaches, and works with organizations on strategies to enhance overall effectiveness by utilizing their most valuable assets--their human and social capital. She conducts extensive research on building capacity of people and outcomes at work with a special emphasis on enhancing outcomes for women. This includes topics such as mentoring, breaking the "glass ceiling", diversity, and workplace discrimination. Her work has been published widely in management and psychology journals as well as book chapter and special issues. Popular media—including The Wall Street Journal, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Atlanta Journal Constitution, Pittsburgh Business Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Black Enterprise, Jet Magazine, and Vida Executive (in Brazil)—has also highlighted Murrell's work. She is the author (along with Crosby and Ely) of the book titled Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships within Multicultural Organizations and the author (with Forte-Trammell and Bing) of the recent book Intelligent Mentoring: How IBM Creates Value through People, Knowledge and Relationships. She recently received funding from the Ford Foundation's Having a Dream Fund to study way to increase the utilization of minority and women contractors/suppliers among public/governmental agencies. [more]
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Tony Norman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Tony Norman's path into journalism has been convoluted, to say the least. When he joined the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's city desk in November 1988, it was not to cover breaking stories. No, Norman was hired to input letters to the editor and answer phones. As a clerk for a little over a year, Norman learned humility and even managed to get his typing speed into an acceptable range.

Quickly learning the lay of the land at the Post-Gazette, Norman identified niche beats he could make his own and perhaps make a name for himself. After finishing his regular shift as a clerk, he'd cover pop music for the features desk. His industry and familiarity with genres like gangsta rap and alternative music made him an invaluable part of the Post-Gazette's coverage of popular music and culture in the early '90s. Norman was named the Post-Gazette's pop music/pop culture critic in 1990.

Early on, Norman began winning local awards for his cultural reporting. He's been a much sought after commentator on cultural issues and a frequent guest on local talk shows and television programs. [more]
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Murray Rust, Montgomery & Rust, Inc.
Murray Rust, a native of Pittsburgh, PA, is the President of Montgomery & Rust, Inc. As an active member and former officer of local, state and national builders associations, Murray keeps the company in touch with the building industry , and has established himself as an industry leader over the last thirty-four years.

Murray holds degrees in Applied Science and Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University. He also participated in Continuing Education for Construction Engineers for two years at Cornell University.

Prior to co-founding HMR, Inc. (now Montgomery & Rust, Inc.) Murray worked with Rust Engineering and its Belgian Affiliates, Coppee-Rust for 10 years. There he served as estimator, chief scheduler, foreign office sales and contract officer, assistant superintendent, regional construction manager, and project manager.  Project experience included waste water treatment plants, a steel mill complex, two chemical plants, and several pulp and paper mills.  He had responsibility for complete project management of multi-million dollar construction project. Murray is experienced in all phases of construction including material, labor, cost accounting, scheduling and safety. [more]
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Diane Sheets, Butler County Community Development Corporation
Diane Mintus Sheets joined the Community Development Corporation of Butler County in1998 as Manager of Operations and was named Deputy Director in 2000, Executive Director in 2005 stepping down to work part time as Business Development Manager in July 2010. Ms. Sheets' past experience includes positions with Cranberry Area Chamber of Commerce, New Kensington Area Chamber & IDC, Allegheny County Department of Aging and the Internal Revenue Service.

A Magna Cum Laude Graduate of the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in Public Administration, Ms. Sheets has also completed her graduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.

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