according to information provided by Pitt<\/a>. She later became an associate professor and University Senate officer.<\/p>\nA native of Philadelphia, Washington eventually rose to a role in the chancellor\u2019s office at the University of Pittsburgh and helped establish what is now known as the Center for Health Equity in the School of Public Health. She spent 30 years with the university until her retirement in 1999, Pitt officials said.<\/p>\n
During that time, she is credited with supporting Black Action Society students in opening a Black cultural center at the university and helping countless students through her efforts toward creating an inclusive environment, officials said.<\/p>\n
Pettigrew lauded Washington\u2019s influence on his wife, Dr. Margaret Larkins-\u00adPettigrew, while she was a student. Larkins-\u00adPettigrew now is a professor and academic chair in the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Drexel University.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was very much involved in my wife\u2019s success,\u201d Pettigrew said.<\/p>\n
Outside of the university, Washington was just as accomplished.<\/p>\n
She helped revive the Pittsburgh chapter of the NAACP, served on numerous boards and was among the founding members of the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh\u2019s Cultural District. Washington and other local leaders established the August Wilson Legacy Fund that supports paid summer internships at the Carnegie Museum of Art.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo many people benefited from her ideas,\u201d Petti\u00adgrew said.<\/p>\n
Washington has left a lasting impact both at the August Wilson center and on its president, chief executive officer and artistic director Janis Burley.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe set a very high standard that so many of us in the arts and nonprofit leadership \u2026 aspire to,\u201d Burley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city is better, the region is better, for having someone like her,\u201d Burley said.<\/p>\n
Washington is survived by two daughters and their husbands and four grandchildren, according to her obituary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nancy Washington used her connections to bring ideas to life. Many of those ideas have created lasting impacts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-313640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313640","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=313640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}