Dr. Kriesky (retired) was the Associate Director of the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project and Senior Project Coordinator at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health’s Center for Healthy Environments and Communities. She has spent more than twenty years in university-based community outreach on issues including labor relations, economic development and community health issues. As the director of West Virginia Campus Compact, the West Virginia University Office of Service Learning Programs, and Wheeling Jesuit University’s Service for Social Action Center and Clifford M. Lewis, SJ, Appalachian Institute, Kriesky developed and managed a series of community/academic partnerships with community-based organizations in West Virginia. Kriesky received her MS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and her PhD in Economics from the University of New Hampshire.