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Permalink Reply by Carla Leininger on September 4, 2009 at 11:53am

BIOGRAPHY - Carla Andréa C. Leininger

Leininger is a native of Brasília, Brazil. She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish and has lived in Pittsburgh, PA, since 1987. She works as a Talent Sourcing Analyst for PNC and has a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication with emphasis in Public Relations. She can be reached at 412 608 3946 or via email at carlapitt@aol.com.

Most recently, Carla served as a G20 Summit Consultant on several organization committees providing advice, resources and mediation to ensure a successful event as Pittsburgh welcomes 20+ world presidential delegations.
And as G20 behind the scenes event mediator she provided mediation services to a sold-out pre G20 Summit event which included panelists from the Allegheny Conference on Community Development and Visit Pittsburgh.
In April 2009 she received National Association of Women Business Owners “Make the Connection Award” for her volunteer work in the civic community.

Carla is also the Founder, Producer, Promoter and DJ of Global Beats (www.globalbeatspitt.com) which helps build bridges across different cultures through world music events by working with local organizations such as Colombia en Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Urban Management Project (PUMP), Turkish Professional Association, Guitar Society of Fine Arts (GSFA), Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, CMU Graduate Student Organization and the Latin American Cultural Union.

Global Beats received grants form the Heinz Endowments and the Multicultural Arts initiative and was featured
6 times by Pop City Media. In the fall of 2006 Global Beats joined forces with Putumayo, one of the strongest world music labels in the industry. In June 2008, it hosted its first ever outdoor event as part of the Stay and Play series in Market Square bringing the renowned artists Nation Beat from NYC and Javier Garcia from Miami. In December 2009 Global Beats partnered with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and hosted a New Year’s Bash in the Cabaret Theater, in the cultural district of Pittsburgh, sponsored by Lanxess Corporation and the Multicultural Arts Initiative. The event was nominated for a Creative Arts and Business Partnership Award recognizing a successful collaboration between an arts organization and a business that furthered the interests of both parties.

Carla has also served as the Master of Ceremony for the world affairs yearly event, World Quest, for three consecutive years. And was nominated as one of Pittsburgh 50 Finest individuals by Cystic Fibrosis in 2007 and featured on August edition of Whirl magazine.

Another of Carla’s creations was the Brazilian Radio Hour on WRCT 88.3 FM in 1999 as an hourly program each month and part of the Latin American Radio Magazine. In 2004 the program became independent and broadcast weekly in Portuguese and English at 6 pm on Fridays. The program collaborates with organizations such as the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh City Theater, Guitar Society of Fine Arts and the Latin American Cultural Union (LACU) in promoting events.

Some of Carla’s other achievements include serving as Vice President of the Latin American Cultural Union (LACU), as Creator and current administrator of the Brazilian Pittsburgh website www.arrepiabrasil.org which has been a key cultural assimilation service to the community by providing a blog, a calendar of events, photos, FAQ, radio podcasts and news and as a Member of the 2009 Board of Directors of the Multicultural Arts Initiative whose mission is to “increase awareness and visibility of culturally diverse arts in the region.” She has been featured on the fall 2008 edition of the Pittsburgh Quarterly Magazine’s article titled “The Brazilians are Here” and on the September 2009 edition of Pittsburgh Magazine and Carnegie Museum Magazines in G20 Summit related stories.

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