Theresa Orlando Honored as a Jefferson Award Winner
Theresa Orlando, a Call To Action member for over 20 years and one of the original members of the CTA Anti-Racism Team was named as a finalist for the 2016 Pittsburgh Jefferson Award winners for the Most Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award.
The Jefferson Awards, a national program begun in 1972, have been likened to the Nobel Prize for volunteering. In Pittsburgh, Theresa’s hometown, it’s administered by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Theresa has received $1000 from the Forbes Fund and is donating this to the CTA Anti-Racism Team.
Orlando, executive director and founding member of the North Hills Anti-Racism Coalition, has been an activist her “whole adult life.” She and her late husband, Harry, began supporting civil rights and anti-war movements in the 1960s.
“We were trying to make right,” the 78-year-old Hampton resident said, “trying to be on the right side of the question.”
Read more about Theresa and the award at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
