Jon Delano

Dr. Edda Fields-Black

Mayor Jim Nowalk (right)

Jon Delano

Jon Delano is a decorated journalist, writer, and political analyst. He is the former Money & Politics editor for KDKA and served as a political analyst for 30 years. A trusted voice in the broadcast field, he has appeared on national news programs and interviewed multiple presidents and politicians like Barack Obama, President Donald Trump, and Joe Biden. He’s the recipient of awards like the Edward R. Murrow Award for hard news reporting and Small Business Journalist Champion of the Year award from the U. S. Small Business Administration. Jon graduated from Haverford College and received his Juris Doctor from University of Pennsylvania Law School. He taught at Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz College of Information Systems & Public Policy for 25 years.

Dr. Edda Fields-Black

Dr. Edda Fields-Black is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian, producer, and writer. She is the Director of the Dietrich College Humanities Center at Carnegie Mellon University and has consulted for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the Senator John Heinz History Center, and the International African American Museum. Her book, COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War, received the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History, as well as the 2025 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize. Fields holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Brandon McGinley

Brandon McGinley serves as the editorial page editor at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette and oversees the editorial board, opinion section and Sunday Insight section. He is the author of several books, and his work has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing. McGinley graduated from Princeton University in 2010 and has been with the Post Gazette since 2021. He is also a Whitehall Borough native.

Joseph Sabino Mistick, Esq.

Joseph Sabino Mistick is an associate professor of law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Duquesne University. He is a weekly Sunday columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune and has been on programs like CBS Sunday Morning, PBS NewsHour, and Voice of America. In 1995, he founded the Urban Development Law Clinic. Mistick holds a J.D. from Duquesne Kline School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Sister Janice Vanderneck

Sister Janice Vanderneck is the Founding Director of Casa San José, a Pittsburgh nonprofit, resource and welcome center for the Latino community. She is a Sister of St. Joseph of Baden, and she has worked in Latin America, educating and organizing community members to think critically about power structures, oppression, and political engagement.

Sister Janice worked for decades as a religion teacher and principal at Catholic elementary and high schools in Pittsburgh. She has received numerous awards for her extraordinary service including the Michael McGrady Award for Service at the Art Rooney Awards Dinner, the OHTLI Award given by the Secretariat of the Mexican Government for service to the Mexican community in the US, the El Sol Award from the Hispanic Attorneys Committee of the Allegheny Bar Association, and the Volunteer Preceptor of the Year (IPPE) award from the School of Pharmacy of the University of Pittsburgh. Her most recent award was the Corazon Latino Legacy Award given at the Pennsylvania Hispanic Convention in September 2025.

Brandon McGinley

Joseph Sabino Mistick, Esq.

Dave Thomas, President Whitehall Historical Society

Sister Janice Vanderneck

Mayor Jim Nowalk