by Sheila Hyland, Operations Manager, Luminari “Are you sure you want to go through with this?” asked my dad on my wedding day. “Yes, dad. I’ve made up my mind—throw them out!” And with that, my dad did throw out …
by Sheila Hyland, Operations Manager, Luminari “Are you sure you want to go through with this?” asked my dad on my wedding day. “Yes, dad. I’ve made up my mind—throw them out!” And with that, my dad did throw out …
By Hilda Pang Fu, President and Founder, Luminari Memories are mostly pictures, colorful images that make up the mosaic of our years. As I look back on the past decade, I see the faces of young people visiting national monuments, …
by Sheila Hyland, Operations Manager, Luminari Imagine getting the rare opportunity to cook alongside some of Pittsburgh’s most decorated chefs. It will become reality for the teenagers who attend Camp Delicious! this summer with a host of culinary masters. Luminari …
Chef Roger and the Camp Delicious Cast of Culinary Masters! Read More »
by Beth Dolinar, Contributing Writer We are a culture obsessed with smells. You can’t turn on the TV without seeing a commercial for a product that promises to either remove an odor, add a fragrance or, in the case …
The shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Squirrel Hill brought a sense of shock and sadness to the entire Pittsburgh community. But the losses of life that day were especially personal for two Luminari alumni. Among the eleven …
by Pilar Brown, LUMOS! Editor and Graphic Designer Luminari‘s strength and longevity can be directly attributed to the collection of people, experts in their professions, who have shared their time, creativity and talent to help our organization grow and flourish. …
by Gina Catanzarite, Director, Teen Writer! Words Matter. As the director of Luminari’s Teen Writer! camp, and a writer by both profession and personal definition, that is the lesson I teach, and it is the ideology I live by. For days now, …
by Gina DeMarco Wall, former Director of the I Want to be an Ambassador! Camp (2010) and current camp instructor In my role as a supervisor for English as a Second Language (ESL) at the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, I give …
A comment by Louis B. Schwartz “We should welcome the Communist Party of China to the cacophonous marketplace of ideas that defines American democracy and wish them luck competing. It may strengthen China, as it has strengthened us. Tolerating the …
Sheila likes to say she caught the “Luminari bug.” Once you catch it, she says you can’t let go! Sheila offered her expertise at the Speak & Tell! camp in 2016, then returned as co-director of the camp in 2017. …
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