Out & About: Soul food dinner celebrates Black History Month

Shirley McMarlin | Monday, March 4, 2019 1:30 a.m.

Kim Stepinsky | For the Tribune-Review

From left: Silvina Orsatti of Saltsburg, a Spanish professor at Pitt-Greensburg, Leigh Hoffman of Trafford, assistant dean of Student Services, Rick Fogle of Monroeville, dean of Student Services, and Jonathan Lerch of Allentown, criminal justice student at Pitt-Greensburg, gather for a photo during the Diversity Student Coalition soul food dinner for Black History Month, held Feb. 25 at Pitt-Greensburg.

As part of the campus-wide observance of Black History Month, a soul food dinner was served Feb. 25 at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg.

The student-run event was co-sponsored by the Diversity Student Coalition and the Pitt-Greensburg Student Government Association.

Traveling from the eastern side of the state to partake of the tasty meal was keynote speaker James Deleon III, a Philadelphia Municipal Court judge.

On hand were coalition president Imani Thompson and executive board members Matthew Matis, Huldah Kena, Matthew Grayo, Rachel Rice, Kara Burke, Elizabeth Jackson and Nadia Louis, along with the group’s advisers, Troy Ross and Gary Hart.