{"id":118272,"date":"2026-02-19T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118272\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T18:26:07","slug":"new-ceo-at-the-mentoring-partnership-looks-to-continue-innovating-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118272\/","title":{"rendered":"New CEO at The Mentoring Partnership looks to continue innovating \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">At the start of 2026, after 26 years at the helm of The Mentoring Partnership SWPA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/05\/mentoring-partnership-new-ceo.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colleen Fedor retired<\/a>, and she was succeeded by a 16-year veteran of TMP, Kristan Allen. For most of her tenure, Allen served as director of marketing and communications at the nonprofit organization, which was founded by the late Steelers owner Ambassador Dan Rooney and George L. Miles of WQED. The Mentoring Partnership works to connect local mentoring programs with community organizations and schools to support the region\u2019s youth. In 2024, Allen was elevated to the role of associate executive director, and, now, she is charting a future course for the organization as CEO and is only the third person to lead TMP in its 30-year history. <\/p>\n<p>Tell me about yourself \u2014 are you from Pittsburgh originally?<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">I consider myself a born and raised Pittsburgher. That said, I grew up in Saxonburg, which is in Butler County, and I still live there. We actually live on my husband\u2019s family farm. Our kids are the seventh generation on the farm. So it\u2019s pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/personalities-kristan-allen-mentoring-partnership.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/16\/personalities-kristan-allen-mentoring-partnership.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the start of 2026, after 26 years at the helm of The Mentoring Partnership SWPA, Colleen Fedor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,56114,56110,6732,56113,18431,56112,56111],"class_list":["post-118272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-youth","tag-the-mentoring-partmership","tag-youth","tag-youth-mentorship","tag-youth-mentorship-program","tag-youth-partnership","tag-youth-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}