H&SS Real Alumni:
Linda Dickerson (B.A. Small Business Marketing and Management, 1981)

Linda Dickerson has been named the executive director of The National Aviary in Pittsburgh. Dickerson, a member of the Carnegie Mellon Board of Trustees, is currently principal of 501(c)(3)2, a nonprofit management consulting practice. She has chaired the boards of the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater and Visitpittsburgh. She was publisher of Executive Report from 1981 to 1997, and has provided consulting services to a spectrum of nonprofit clients, including the Community College of Allegheny County, the Phipps Conservatory, Point Park University, and Sustainable Pittsburgh among others. She has served on the board of the National Aviary since 2003.