Kate spent the past 40 years as a producer, developer, and director in the world of media development – from projects on 1” videotape to online educational programming delivered on custom platforms with complex functionality. Her love of storytelling, focus on the end user, and gifts as a servant leader have afforded her a stimulating and rewarding career. Kate is a Penn State graduate and returned to the State College area in 2017 after 40 years in Austin, Texas.

Carolyn’’’s message is one of community-building, outreach and engagement and her professional and personal goals work to match the community spirit of each of us contributing to help the greater good.

Carolyn currently serves as Vice President, Community Engagement and Relationship Development for Kish Bank, a regional community bank serving 5 counties in Central PA. In this role, she directs the philanthropic and community engaging events, programs and sponsorships of the bank including coordinating and amplifying the community service work of its nearly 300 Kish Bank team members.

In her previous role at WPSU, a Penn State Outreach Service, Carolyn led the Community Engagement efforts of this public media station. From 1995 to 2016, Carolyn served as a news reporter and anchor for the regional CBS-affiliate WTAJ-TV sharing the news stories of Central PA and building community as host, emcee and active participant in many local and regional organizations.

A Magna cum laude graduate of Siena Heights University in Adrian, MI, Carolyn has completed coursework in Penn State’s Master’s Media Studies program in the Donald E. Bellisario College of Communications.  Carolyn serves on several regional boards including the Central PA Festival of the Arts, Special Olympics PA, Altoona Symphony and as a Trustee of Mount Aloysius College.

Sherry DelGrosso, DNP, RN, graduated from Penn State (Nurs ’92). She began her career as an ICU nurse at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and has experience in the following specialties: legal nurse consulting, hospital management, healthcare consulting, clinical nursing, academia, research, and speaking engagements. As a healthcare consultant, she helped organizations improve operational inefficiencies. She focused on leadership, finance, and workforce development at the Advisory Board Company. Ties to academia include faculty work at Lansing Community College; teaching assistant at The University of Michigan; adjunct faculty at John’s Hopkins School of Nursing; Penn State University World Campus, and now Saint Francis University. She owns DelGrosso Legal Nurse Consulting, LLC, and serves on the Editorial Committee for the Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting. She is a public speaker and advocates for those impacted by breast cancer. In 2021, Sherry and her husband, Michael, received The Penn State Outreach and Online Education Fischer Award of Distinction. Sherry resides in Tipton, PA, with her husband and daughter, Sofia.

Abby is a doctoral student in the Bellisario College of Communications at Penn State. Her research focuses on the critical political economy of media policy through qualitative investigation of the human impacts of policy. Specifically, she is interested in how the decisions made in Washington impact the people, especially with respect to education and health outcomes. In this, public radio has proved itself as an exceptional tool in the chest for public safety and education. Abby hopes her research can support advocacy efforts.

Amy Stacy Frank is the founder of The Makery, located at 209 W. Calder Way in downtown State College. The Makery is an inspired art and craft studio specializing in creative classes, parties and events.

The Makery has received several local and regional awards including Best Community Space and Best Place for After School Activities from State College Magazine and Community Impact Business of the Year from the Chamber of Business and Industry of Centre County. You can learn more at themakerypa.com.

Amy is also an accomplished mixed media collage artist. Last year, she won WPSU’s Art for the Airwaves contest for her landscape, The Road Home. Her collections are shown in local and regional galleries. Her portraits and landscapes are often created using materials from the people and places she paints. Amy’s work can be seen at mindfullymadestudios.com.
Amy lives in Central PA with a patient husband, 4 crazy kids and 2 goldendoodles.