Messay Derebe

Founder & Donor

Messay holds a Masters in Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon University. She is a Program Officer at the Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation. Previous to this Messay worked with several performing and visual arts organizations around the country in Pittsburgh, PA, Dallas, TX, and Washington, DC. This experience included work with the The Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Dallas Black Dance Theatre, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, and Washington Performing Arts. Messay began her career in finance working as an auditor with Ernst & Young but left that path to pursue her true passion of supporting artists and arts organizations.

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