WHO WE ARE
Eve Picker is president of no wall productions, inc.. Trained as an architect and urban designer, Eve has built an entrepreneurial real estate development business, which has rocked Pittsburgh. Since 1997, she has focused on Downtown and urban neighborhoods that others have ignored, transforming vacant warehouses into highly desirable loft-style residences and offices. These projects have set the stage for future residential development in downtown Pittsburgh, have forced new policy to be adopted in areas such as building codes and parking, and have created a new marketplace.
Her work have been recognized in numerous ways, including publication in Dwell Magazine, AIA honor awards, Coolspace Locator Award, Pittsburgh Magazine Superior Interior Award, SBN Magazine Pacesetter, Top 50 Pittsburgh PG business leader and one of PA’s 50 Best Women in Business.
In 2006, tired of waiting for others to trumpet the many good things happening in Pittsburgh, Eve launched the e-magazine, Pop City, aimed at breaking the bad news cycle so typical of rust belt cities. Readership grew from 20,000 to 175,000 in just 18 months under her tenure. This adds to Eve’s “all things urban” mission.
Kim O’Dell is the director of the Heinz Awards program, one of the projects of the Heinz Family Philanthropies. Presented since 1994 to honor the life’s work of the late U.S. Sen. John Heinz, the $250,000 Awards are among the largest individual achievement prizes.
They recognize remarkable contributions across a spectrum of activity – from the arts and the environment to technology and public policy. In addition to the Awards, Kim runs several other programs, including the John Heinz Senate Fellowship on issues of the Aging and the Teresa Heinz Environmental Scholarships.
Prior to the Awards, Kim worked for Senator Heinz and the Heinz family in Washington, DC. She graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in business.
Sara Radelet, executive director of the New Hazlett Theater, has over 13 years of experience in the non-profit sector and a long-standing involvement in the Pittsburgh arts community. With expertise in non-profit fundraising and organizational management, Sara’s strengths are in building small non-profit arts groups to their next threshold of development, skills she honed during ten years of employment at the Mattress Factory art museum.
Sara holds a BA in Liberal Arts from The George Washington University and is certified in Economic Development Finance through the National Development Council. While living in Washington DC, she worked as a sub-contracted stage hand, assisting crews on band tours, conventions and conferences.
She is President of the Board of Directors of Quantum Theatre, Secretary to the Board of Directors of Artists Image Resource, Secretary to the Board of Directors of City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. In 2000, Sara was named as one of Pittsburgh’s “40 under 40”. She also plays bass guitar in two rock’n’roll bands: Peevo, and The Shanks.