After years of facilitating community-focused economic development with the Urban Redevelopment Authority, Diamonte Walker is shifting her focus to helping single mothers get a college degree. She’s the first CEO of Pittsburgh Scholar House, whose goal is to build an affordable multi-family housing development near a university campus to help retain students.
The Pittsburgh Scholar House — a new nonprofit that aims to increase support for single-parent families in pursuit of higher education — announced Thursday that it has appointed Diamonte Walker as its inaugural CEO. Walker previously served as the deputy executive director for Pittsburgh’s Urban Redevelopment Authority. In her new
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Pennsylvania lawmakers have continued to focus on reducing campus sexual assaults and funding initiatives throughout the state that support that goal, even as the national program on which those efforts were modeled has waned.