Paul A. Selvaggio Paul is Creative Director for the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium. He has been a published photographer for nearly 30 years, 17 of those at the zoo. He borrowed his Dad’s camera when he was in 9th grade and has been making photos ever since. He is a native Pittsburgher and he and his wife live in Allison Park with their two sons. View and order prints at www.paulselvaggio.imagekind.com.	Aradhna Dhanda Aradhna is the president and CEO of Leadership Pittsburgh Inc., a resource for leadership development. Deeply committed to community building, Aradhna is actively engaged with the academic, public policy, corporate and nonprofit sectors and serves on several local boards. Born and raised in India, Aradhna holds an MBA from Rutgers University and a master's in psychology from Bhopal University.	Dan Onorato Dan graduated from Penn State with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and worked for several years as a CPA before earning a degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He was elected to Pittsburgh City Council in 1991 and re-elected in 1995. In 1999, he was elected Allegheny County Controller, spending four years as a watchdog against wasteful spending and fraud. In 2003, he was elected County Executive and in 2007 was overwhelmingly re-elected.
Stacy Innerst Stacy was born in California and graduated from the University of New Mexico where he studied fine art and history. In addition to his illustrations for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, his work has appeared in the Boston Globe, the Chicago Tribune, MSNBC.com, the New York Times and in two award-winning picture books for Harcourt Publishing. He’s received awards from American Illustration, the New York Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Sigma Delta Chi and Print magazine, among others.	Chris Brush Chris graduated from the University of Buffalo with a degree in media studies. While photography has been a lifelong pursuit, Chris has also been active in commercial audio recording, music production and film soundtrack composition. Chris lives in Seattle, Wash., with his wife and daughter. His music, photography and musings can be found at www.chrisbrush-media.com.	Joe Renckly Joe is a diversified photographer whose career began in 1973, shooting church interiors while working on a degree in biology at West Virginia University. During summer breaks from Pitt dental school, he earned the nickname “Photo Joe” as a whitewater rafting photographer on the Youghiogheny River. He lives in the Deutschtown neighborhood of Pittsburgh. You can reach him at joerenckly@verizon.net.
eric w. springer Eric, now retired from the practice of law, was a senior and founding partner with Horty, Springer & Mattern, P.C., one of the nation's premier health law firms. In retirement, Eric devotes a significant portion of his time to pursuing his lifelong interest in American history and the fascinating intersections of race relations and the law.	chip walter Chip is an author, filmmaker and former CNN bureau chief who, like many, has boomeranged back home to Pittsburgh. He's consulted with companies and universities on digital media and communication here and on both coasts. His third book, Thumbs, Toes and Tears — And Other Traits That Make Us Human, has been published in five languages. He also contributes to The Economist, Scientific American Magazine and the Boston Globe. Chip is currently working on his fourth book, Decoded, for Walker Books.	dennis unkovic Dennis is a partner with the law firm Meyer, Unkovic & Scott LLP, where he provides advice to companies doing business around the world. He has written four books, including his Trade Secrets Handbook, which was published in English, Japanese, Chinese and Serbo-Croatian. Prior to joining the law firm, he was legislative director for U.S. Sen. Hugh Scott.
duane rieder Duane has been a successful advertising photographer for 20 years, working for local and national clients including The Discovery Channel, ESPN, GQ magazine, Mellon Bank and UPMC. He works from his studio in Engine House No. 25, a 100-year-old landmark in Lawrenceville, where he also displays his private collection of Roberto Clemente memorabilia. Duane is currently working on a book documenting Major League Baseball.
sean d. hamill Sean is a freelance writer based in Sewickley, his hometown. After three years working for a daily newspaper in rural Missouri, and 12 working for papers in Chicago, he moved home with his family 2 1/2 years ago. He continues to write for newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and New York Times. He and his wife, Dr. Joey Kallem, a local emergency veterinarian, have two sons--including one born during the reporting on this issue’s Pittsburgh Promise story.	Carolyn Kelly Carolyn is an illustrator/artist who graduated from Kent State University with a BFA in design and illustration and a minor in printmaking. Her work has been published internationally as well as locally. Carolyn's sensitivity to texture, pattern and materials is reflected in her unique illustration style. A piece of her work is in the Carnegie Museum of Art's AAP Exhibiton on display until Jan. 21. You can see her work at www.carolyn-kelly.com.	chico harlan Chico Harlan is currently living 14 time zones away from relevance, spending a half-year as a staff writer for The Daily Telegraph, in Sydney, Australia. He's written previously for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ESPN The Magazine, The New York Times and The Washington Post Magazine. He graduated in 2004 from Syracuse University (aka the Harvard of Onondaga County), and because of tuition payments, his parents haven't taken a proper vacation in about eight years.
Joseph Plummer Joseph has read his share of studies on the decline of Western Pennsylvania steelmaking during a career as a journalist, manager of corporate issues, technology association executive and novelist and writing coach. This issue's report on Pittsburgh's steel suppliers triggered his sense of irony about a region looking elsewhere for industry to replace its legacy in metals. It turns out that a robust cluster of knowledge-based companies has been building Pittsburgh's reputation worldwide as a leading center for technological innovation in steelmaking.	Tara Rieland Tara is a freelance marketing consultant and event planner who started pulling tear sheets from Vogue and Town & Country at the age of 12. A Pittsburgh native and city dweller, she is proud to see the downtown area growing. She enjoys hot yoga, making great party soundtracks, discovering the best-kept secrets of the city, and of course — shopping.	John Beale During more than 20 years as a photojournalist in Pittsburgh, John has been stuck in the crown of a tree in a hot air balloon; lost nearly 10 pounds in a week while photographing missionaries in Nicaragua; and photographed his own mugging. Beale is now a senior lecturer of communications at Penn State’s University Park campus. His work has been honored with numerous regional and national awards.

adam lynch Adam is a retired Pittsburgh WTAE news anchor/reporter who, after some 40 years of broadcasting, launched a freelance writing career. Mostly, he writes about historic or military aviation events. When not writing, he might be found fishing, photographing or bird watching. Adam lives with his wife, Ellie, in Monroeville, where the couple recently celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary.	roy engelbrecht Roy's life as a photographer started when, at 8 years old, he received a box camera as a birthday gift. Although he majored in biology at the University of Pittsburgh and spent 10 years teaching the same, his true love in life is taking pictures. As a commercial photographer, he specializes in architectural imagery. He can be reached at roy@rephoto.net.	david schrott jr. Conceived sometime during the '79 Pirates' championship run and the beginning of the Steelers' fourth Super Bowl season, David began taking pictures of his favorite athletes at age 8 — on the TV screen. After studying photography at Drexel University in Philadelphia, he moved to Pittsburgh (home of his beloved Steelers and Pirates) in February where he is now a commercial photographer.
jennifer bails Jennifer is a freelance writer specializing in science, medicine and the environment. She is a marine biologist-turned-scribe who now pens prose instead of counting cells. Jennifer loves digging into new research and figuring out why we should care. She lives in Squirrel Hill with her husband, Michael, and their baby daughter, Ilyssa.	ric evans Pittsburgh native and commercial photographer Ric enjoys shooting from his downtown loft studio as well as locations throughout the country and world. To him, every day is an exciting challenge. Ric's off-camera time is spent tromping through the woods and biking and kayaking at his river camp where he enjoys his two dogs. He is most proud of his two children: Lauren, who resides in Seattle, and Luke, who is starting his last year at Penn State.	Ted Crow An editorial artist for almost 30 years, Ted has returned to Cleveland with The Plain Dealer after spending 17 years at two newspapers in Pittsburgh. As an illustrator, he tries to accurately represent the story without being too literal. His work has won many awards, including SND and PRINT. Ted resides with his wife, Kim, and their two Yorkies, Trixie and Pansy, on Cleveland's West Side. When not illustrating, he likes to play basketball and bike.
gizem saka Gizem is a 29-year old painter, born and raised in Istanbul, currently living in Pittsburgh. She has exhibited her work in galleries across several cities, including Istanbul, Montreal, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York City. Her latest work can be seen at www.Istanbulgallery.com.	jack wolf Jack has been a photographer for 28 years, working primarily in the corporate advertising and editorial world. Recently he has directed his creative talent to the subject of golf. His imagery of Oakmont Country Club in this issue has led him to projects for Kiawah Island and The Homestead in Virginia. His photos, like his golf scores, are well above par. He can be reached at jwolfphotography@comcast.net.	marino parascenzo Marino, a freelance golf writer, has covered the game around the world. His work has appeared in Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest and Golf Magazine, among other publications, and he is the author of “Oakmont, 100 Years,” the history of the storied club. He was a journalism adjunct instructor at Pitt, and was a sports writer and the golf writer at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
john buckman John, a Squirrel Hill resident, is a marketing consultant working with technology and life sciences companies in western Pennsylvania and beyond. In a previous life, he was a journalist, reporting from London and Johannesburg. He can be reached at jbuckman@buckman.biz.	parker synder Parker freelances for magazines and works independently in digital video. After graduating from Purdue University in civil engineering, he volunteered in an orphanage in Mongolia teaching kids how to use computers. This year, he is in Rwanda developing an independent collaborative media site — 80percentangel.com — about the reconciliation work occurring there.	k.j. bryant K.J. recently returned to Pittsburgh after 30 years in Los Angeles. She left behind two grown children, a communications career, traffic and a workaholic lifestyle. She was welcomed by her 90-year-old mother and a city that has changed as much as she has. Before coming home, she took a year-long road trip around the country interviewing women with inspiring stories of transformation.

Maxwell King Max is president of The Heinz Endowments in Pittsburgh. He is also chair of the board of the national Council on Foundations, based in Washington, D.C. Before he came to Pittsburgh, he was the editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer through most of the 1990s. He lives in Squirrel Hill with his wife, Peggy, and their dog, Mancie. He has two grown sons.	bette mcdevitt Bette grew up in New Castle and is a firmly planted transplant in Deutschtown on Pittsburgh's North Side. She came to Pittsburgh to work at the Thomas Merton Center and met all the interesting people who came through the doors there. She met the rest of Pittsburgh as a freelance writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and some magazines. Next to Pittsburgh, she loves Iceland best, but there's not enough room to tell why.	Lori Jakiela Lori is the author of the memoir, “Miss New York Has Everything.” She lives and writes in Trafford, the birthplace of the chocolate covered pickle. She is also a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh's Greensburg campus
Cami Mesa Cami graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., with a BFA in photography. She freelanced in Los Angeles until 2002 when she made Pittsburgh her home. She now freelances for several magazines, advertising agencies and design firms. She loves photographing people, especially children. Road trips with her husband and son are one of her favorite things to do.	BrucE M. Wolf Bruce, a Pittsburgh native, is a collector, businessman, attorney and amateur historian. He is actively involved in art museums and historical societies in Western Pennsylvania and New England. When he is not engaged in those activities, he produces wine in a lobster-shaped bottle under the brand Homard.	Robert Strovers Robert is a fine-art photographer who adopted Pittsburgh seven years ago. He loves to explore the myriad neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, camera in hand, taking a fresh look at the city — its buildings, bridges, historical artifacts and institutions. Robert's work can be found at Watercolors Gallery in the Cultural District, and most Saturdays he can be found on Penn Avene in the Strip District.

David Liebmann

David writes about birds and birds in literature. Trained in science and English, he holds degrees from Middlebury College and teaches at Shady Side Academy. He has birded throughout the U.S., favoring the Pittsburgh region for warblers and the desert Southwest for hummingbirds.

Renee Rosensteel

Renee is a freelance photojournalist based in the South Side. She covers a wide range of features and sports subjects for local and national media. Her documentary work includes an embedded state-side project on National Guard training exercises in Georgia and California, coverage of relief volunteers in the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina and an intimate look at life in Afghanistan.

George Schill

George creates humorous and conceptual illustrations for many clients. He is also a contract artist and writer with American Greetings, designing cards for their alternative humor lines. George's work has been recognized by the NY Society of Illustrators, Communication Arts, Print's Regional Design Annuals and the ADDY Awards. He is co-founder of the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators.

Reid R. Frazier

Reid is a freelance writer who worked as a reporter for the North Jersey Herald & News and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He also been a door-to-door pie salesman in France, a night-shift doughnut finisher in Oakland and a wedding photographer’s assistant in New York City. He lives in Wilkinsburg with his Marijke, daughters, Anya and Ruby, and Cleo, their curbside setter.

Lisa Kyle

A native of Cleveland, Lisa graduated from Ohio University with a bachelor's degree in telecommunications and a master's degree in photography. She has worked as a photojournalist at several daily newspapers in Ohio, Michigan and New Jersey and has been honored with dozens of awards. Lisa has settled in
Oakmont with her husband, Peter, and their son, Max.

Seamus McGraw

Seamus is a regular contributor to many publications including Court TV's Crime Library, Penthouse, Reader's Digest, Stuff magazine, Spin and The Forward. He has won a number of journalism awards and is currently working on a comic novel set in Pennsylvania's coal country. He lives in the woods of northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife, Kren, and four children, Miriam, Yona, Seneca and Liam.

Bear Brandegee

Bear is Pittsburgh Quarterly's fashion writer and stylist. Her alternate fashion persona is serving as fashion advisor and personal wardrobe expert to executive and community leaders in Pittsburgh, New York and Washington DC. Visit Bear at www.bearbrandegee.com.

Sanford Neiman

Sandy graduated Harvard Law School in 1971, cum laude. He has served in federal and state government, as V.P. and general counsel of Giant Eagle Markets, as adjunct professor at Pitt’s Katz Business School and as a business consultant.

Beth Dolinar

Beth is a columnist and freelance writer. A former investigative reporter for WTAE-TV, she is now a contributing correspondent to WQED-TV’s “On-Q” program. When she is not rowing with her crew team, Beth is an avid tennis player and yoga devotee. She and her husband, a television producer, live in Ben Avon with their young son and daughter.

Virginia Phillips

Virginia writes for newspapers and magazines about food. She translated the cookbooks of French pastry chef Christine Ferber, made popular in this country by Martha Stewart. She is active with Slow Food, an international organization working through agro-ecology for a better food supply and to restore the ceremony of the table. She was founding editor of Mt. Lebanon Magazine.

William W. Keller and Thomas G. Rawski

William, pictured, is the director of Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Studies at Pitt, where he is also the Wesley W. Posvar chair in international security studies. He is a co-author with Thomas of “China’s Rise and the Shifting Balance of Influence in Asia.” Thomas is a professor of economics and history, specializing in the Chinese economy.

Karen Lillis

Karen is an artist and a writer of novels and poetry. She is the founder of Words Like Kudzu Press and of the small-press import service, Lillis Distribution/Pittsburgh. Originally from Virginia, she lived in New York City for over a decade and worked at the literary haven, St. Mark’s Bookshop, for many of those years. She called Pittsburgh home as of December 2005.

otto chu and alexandra chu

Otto is the chief executive officer of Chu Financial Management Corporation, an investment management firm. Alexandra C. Chu is a student at The Ellis School, where she currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Ellisian Times, the school newspaper. They are father and daughter.

William S. Dietrich II

A native of Pittsburgh, Bill received his undergraduate education at Princeton, and earned a doctorate in political science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984. He spent his entire business career with Dietrich Industries from 1961 to 2003, eventually serving as president and CEO, and then as non-executive chairman. He is now acting as the trustee and chief investment officer of the Dietrich Charitable Trusts. He is the author of “In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: The Political Roots of American Economic Decline.”

Sunil Wadhwani

Sunil is CEO and co-founder of iGATE Corp., a global technology services business. Under Sunil's leadership, iGATE has been named one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States by Inc. magazine, Business Week and others. He serves on the boards of Carnegie Mellon University, the Information Technology Association of America and the United Way.

Keerthi Suresh

Keerthi is majoring in photography at Sir JJ Institute of Applied Art, India's oldest art and design school, at Bombay. Her parents are peripatetic which took her to Haiti last summer. She was a delegate at the Global Young Leaders Conference in Washington, D.C. in 2002 and graduated to represent India at the Global Young Leaders Summit at Vienna in 2004.

TIM MENEES

Tim drew political cartoons for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly 30 years. His work appeared in national newspapers, newsmagazines and on network television. He also paints and has drawn comic strips, written and illustrated a column and feature stories, and written one-act plays. And, he plays in a blues-zydeco band: piano and, uh ... accordion.

GRAHAM SHEARING

Graham is a collector, critic, curator, consultant and writer who has lived in Pittsburgh for nearly 20 years. After studying law at the University of Cambridge and reading for the English Bar, he was distracted by the lure of art and has been so ever since.

JEFFREY SEWALD

Jeff is an award-winning independent filmmaker and writer who specializes in defining the cultural significance of American people, places, things and events. Among other projects, he is currently producing a national public television documentary about legendary author and naturalist Peter Matthiessen.

Robert Matzen

Robert writes and directs independent feature documentaries that give life to overlooked aspects of history. He is also a published author and by day serves as a senior staff member at Akoya, Pittsburgh's innovative strategic planning and communications firm on the South Side. His role at Akoya includes development of print materials, Web sites and motion pictures for NASA and other clients.

James Hilston

James has produced informational news graphics since 1994. He has won many awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Best Graphic Designer in Ohio, the first place Associated Press of Ohio award for informational graphics, and Best of Newspaper Design for information graphics/breaking news (Society for News Design).

Paul G. Wiegman

Paul is a photographer, writer and naturalist. Trained as a botanist, he has been active in conservation for 35 years. His photography has appeared in publications, including The New York Times, National Geographic and Time-Life and Readers Digest Books.

John Heller

John has worked for the Miami Beach Daily News, The Miami News, The Pittsburgh Press, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the Associated Press. His photos have appeared in other publications including the New York Times and Washington Post.

Gene Collier

Gene has written about sports and politics for 30 years. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in distinguished social commentary. With Rob Zellers, he is co-author of the one-man play "The Chief," based on the life of Steelers founder Art Rooney.

Ellen A. Roth

Ellen is the president of Getting to the Point Inc., a relocation consulting service. Her company assists more than 100 corporations in greater Pittsburgh recruit, relocate and retain senior talent.

John G. Craig

John edited daily newspapers for 33 years, his final 27 as editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette until 2003. He is president of the Southwestern Pennsylvania Regional Indicators Consortium and former co-chairman and executive committee member of the Riverlife Task Force.

Doreena Balestreire

Doreena is a freelance photojournalist who likes jumping out of planes. She hopes to be featured as the storied traveler when her sister writes a book. Doreena plans to pursue graduate work in photojournalism.

James H. Morris

James is a professor of computer science and dean of the West Coast campus of Carnegie Mellon University. He is a CMU graduate who received a Ph.D. in computer science from MIT. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley, worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and is a founder of MAYA Design Group.

Jeffrey Fraser

Jeffery is a Pittsburgh-based freelance writer and former newspaper journalist. He has written for foundations, government and universities and was a contributor to an Edgar Allan Poe Award-winning book on mystery and suspense writers.

Chris Allison

Chris was CEO of Tollgrade Communcations Inc. He is now president of Upsight, LLC management consultants.

Barbara Eichenlaub

Barbara is a full-time mother and freelance writer living in Fox Chapel. She is an expert shopper for the best in local products and services.

Marylynn Uricchio

Marylynn spent 17 years as the film critic for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette before becoming the newspaper's society editor and SEEN columnist. She is currently working on a collection of short stories.

Dan Fitzpatrick

Dan has been a journalist for 11 years, the last eight as a business writer with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He was twice named best young real-estate writer in America by the National Association of Real Estate Editors. He lives in Regent Square.

Sandra Levis

Sandra is a freelance writer living in Point Breeze. She previously worked as a historian for the Los Angeles Conservancy.

Mark DeSantis

Mark is a management consultant and entrepreneur who lives Downtown. He is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Mark spent 15 years in and out of government service in Washington, D.C., before moving to Pittsburgh eight years ago.

Jim Judkis

Jim has been working independently as a freelance photographer for 29 years. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a master of fine arts degree. He considers himself a generalist and takes photos for corporate, editorial and nonprofit clients. He lives in Franklin Park.

Barry Paris

Barry is an award-winning biographer, film historian, Russian translator and contributor to The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. Among his books are Audrey Hepburn and Song of Haiti, the story of Dr. Larry and Gwen Mellon and their Albert Schweitzer Hospital.