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Penn State Greater Allegheny will host its fall commencement at 7 p.m. Thursday in Wunderley Gymnasium on the McKeesport campus. Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter will preside as baccalaureate degree candidates are honored.
Keynote speaker will be Dara Ware Allen, the first chief operating officer of Leadership Pittsburgh. Allen previously served as the executive director of YouthWorks and as director of Penn State's Educational Opportunity Centers of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Allen has served the Pittsburgh Public Schools as the board representative of Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, as well as on numerous other local boards and steering committees.
Allen is a graduate of Leadership Development Initiative (Class V) and Leadership Pittsburgh (Class XXVIII). She also is a founding member of the Urban League Young Professionals of Pittsburgh, was named a "40 Under 40" award winner in 2002 by Pittsburgh Magazine and Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project. She was recently honored as one of the New Pittsburgh Courier's "Women of Excellence."
A graduate of Pittsburgh Public Schools and Spelman College, Allen also holds a doctoral degree in workforce education and development from Penn State.
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- July 15, 2014
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