Point Park University Community Engagement

09/21/2026

Showing up for our Pittsburgh community 💜🥍

Point Park Men’s Lacrosse volunteered at the Autism Speaks 5K this past weekend, lending a hand and supporting an event that brought the community together.

We love seeing our Pioneers make an impact beyond campus!

09/15/2026

06/02/2026

We are excited to expand our 412 Impact Service Learning camp to 5 days this summer. It will take place from July 20-24. There is still space available and we'd love to have your 12-16 year old join us. They will get to learn all about public service and spend time volunteering with great local organizations. They'll also come away with 30 service hours for tracking (graduation, National Honor Society, Scouting, college applications, etc)

This summer, devote three days to engaging with the local Pittsburgh community by partnering with nonprofit organizations! Students will participate in volunteer projects both on- and off-campus each morning and spend each afternoon developing their own ideas to help the community. Students will al...

05/26/2026

TEDx Point Park: Meet our Speakers

Tiffany T. Huff is a visionary leader, strategist, and former nonprofit founder who spent over a decade building and leading When She Thrives, growing it from a small pilot to an organization serving thousands across Pittsburgh.

After successfully guiding the organization through years of impact, she made the decision to sunset it—not because it failed, but because its mission had been fulfilled.

An award-winning author and storyteller, Tiffany brings both strategic insight and narrative depth to her work supporting leaders navigating transition and alignment in seasons of change, most importantly, as the mother of two young adult sons stepping into their own professional lives.. Her work has been recognized with honors including the Pittsburgh Business Times Woman of Influence Award and the Jefferson Award.

05/20/2026

TEDx Point Park: Meet our Speakers

Matt Stroud is an investigative journalist, author, editor, producer, and publisher with more than two decades of experience in in-depth reporting and media production. A Pittsburgh native, he has reported for The New York Times, the Associated Press, Bloomberg News, Esquire, and The Verge. He is the author of Thin Blue Lie (Metropolitan Books), an investigation into the failures of high-tech policing, and the co-creator and co-reporter of Heat List, an investigative podcast about predictive policing in Chicago that won three Peter Lisagor Awards, two New York Festivals Radio Awards Silver Towers, and a National Headliner Award. He is a 2026–27 O'Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University, where his work examines defense spending and surveillance technology. He is the founder of Amphibian Media and a founding member of Signal Ledger, a DC-based investigative news organization. Learn more at Amphibian.Media.

Matt will talk about the importance of local media in his talk "One City, Forty Newsrooms"

Tickets are limited. Get yours today!
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05/19/2026

What comes after? After collapse. After success. After survival.

That's the question TEDx Point Park University is exploring this year, and honestly, it might be the most important question we forget to ask.

📅 May 29, 2026 | 9:00am – 12:00pm
📍 Point Park University Center - 414 Wood Street
🎟️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tedx-point-park-university-2026-tickets-1987398632810

This year's theme is AFTER, and the speaker lineup is incredible:

🎤 Bill Flanagan on how Pittsburgh rebuilt its identity after losing an entire industry
🎤 Tiffany Huff on why endings can actually be growth, not failure
🎤 Jessica Boston on the surprising strength that comes after surviving a crisis
🎤 Anna Yatsko on the quiet legal processes reshaping Pennsylvania neighborhoods
🎤 Melike Konur on imagining life and identity beyond inherited systems
🎤 Matt Stroud on why Pittsburgh's future depends on a new era of local journalism

Only 100 seats available - this one will sell out. Grab your ticket before it's gone!

Join us for TEDx Point Park University on Friday, May 29, 2026, centered around the theme of "AFTER."

05/18/2026

TEDx Point Park: Meet our Speakers

Melike Konur is a performing artist working at the intersection of art, systems design, and cultural strategy. A 2026 Pittsburgh Foundation Advancing Black Arts award recipient, she is known for advancing care-centered approaches within arts and nonprofit institutions. With a lifelong performance practice that has taken her across global stages, her work explores how storytelling and design can reshape systems to better reflect how we actually live. Across both her artistic and professional practice, she develops models that move beyond extractive frameworks toward more sustainable, matriarchally informed, life-centered ways of working.

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05/18/2026

TEDx Point Park: Meet our Speakers
Bill Flanagan has been telling the story of the Pittsburgh region for more than 40-years, first as Money Editor of KDKA-TV and later as Chief Corporate Relations Officer of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development, which works to improve the economy and quality of place of the ten-county Pittsburgh region. Today, as Special Advisor to the Conference, Bill hosts WPXI's "Our Region's Business," a weekly business public affairs program co-produced by the television station and the non-profit, now in its 22nd year.

Bill will walk listeners through a history lesson on Pittsburgh and challenge us to imagine what comes next.

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05/15/2026

TEDx Point Park: Meet our Speakers
Anna Yatsko is a legal analyst who consults nationally on civil rights litigation at her consultancy, Casewright. Prior to starting Casewright at age 23, Anna worked extensively in the civil rights space, collaborating with teams on landmark verdicts and settlements totaling over eight figures. Locally, she serves as a Judicial Law Clerk, assisting and advising jurists and clerks. Anna is a suburban Philadelphia native. She is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she earned her degree in legal studies. At Pitt, Anna was deeply involved in student governance. She served as the youngest voting member on the University’s Budget Planning Committee, which oversaw Pitt’s multibillion-dollar budget.

Anna will talk about what happens when homes fall into conservatorship and are taken over by the courts.

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05/14/2026

TEDx Point Park: Meet our Speakers
Jessica Boston is a mother, NICU advocate, and co‑founder of Mila’s Mission, a nonprofit that equips NICU families with the resources, knowledge, and hope needed to navigate one of life’s most challenging journeys. As a micro‑preemie mother herself, Jessica brings lived experience and deep empathy to her work. With a background in human resources, community engagement, and career development, she is dedicated to helping individuals recognize their voice, reclaim their power, and access opportunities they may not know exist. Rooted in her own journey of rebuilding after the unexpected, Jessica believes that even in life’s most challenging moments, we can discover unimaginable strength. Jessica will present her talk "What Comes After Survival: How Crisis Creates a New Kind of Strength"

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