About Cally

Prior to and following the launch of her own business in 2000, Cally served as Senior Director of Marketing & Communications for Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival, Manager of Corporate Communications for FedEx Ground, Director of Institutional Giving and Director of Public Relations for Pittsburgh Opera, Vice President of Communications for VueCom and Cost Containment Corporation, and Director of College Communications for Chatham University. 

Over almost two decades, her diverse clientele has included: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts, Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival, Pittsburgh Opera, FedEx Corporation, Larrimor’s, Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania, United Way of Southwestern PA, ServiceSource, Continuous Learning Group (CLG), Achieving the Dream, Campos Inc., Community Day School, PJ Dick/Trumbull/Lindy Paving, and many others, as well as sculptor Jim West, multi-media artist Lucy Clark, Metropolitan Opera/Broadway star David Pittsinger, composer Scott Eyerly, author Lillie Leonardi, and artist/author Raymond F. Vennare.

Cally has actively supported the communities where she has lived and worked. She has served as a board member on the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Society for Contemporary Craft, Baptist Homes Society, Greater Pittsburgh Commission for Women, Ezio Pinza Council for America Singers of Opera (EPCASO), and American Women in Radio and Television, as well as given her time and talent on the Transylvania County Tourism and Development Authority Marketing Committee and the United Way Women’s Leadership Council | United for Women Executive and Advisory Committees.

As an arts advocate and mentor to emerging young leaders, Cally has served as a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University and Chatham University, as well as a grants advisor for the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. She is a graduate of CORO Center for Civic Leadership (Women in Leadership | Executive Series) and holds advanced degrees from the University of Akron (MA) and Thiel College (BA).

For additional information, visit Cally’s Linked In profile.