Gloria Forouzan 2007 Pennsylvania Faculty Member   Location: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Program: 2007 Pennsylvania Fellowship

Gloria Forouzan has years of experience in serving both the nonprofit and profit sectors.  She specializes in all aspects of project management, including marketing, communications, event planning and promotions. Forouzan, an Hispanic American, has Minority/Women Business Enterprise certification from Allegheny  County. 

Gloria’s professional work includes serving as Deputy Campaign Manager from 2006-2007 for City Councilman Bill Peduto's Mayoral campaign in Pittsburgh.  She was also Councilman Peduto’s Deputy Campaign Manager for his first run for mayor in 2005. In 2004 Gloria founded "Run, Baby, Run", designed to teach young people, women and minorities how to run for elected office in Western  PA. 

From 2002-2006, Gloria led Run Baby Run’s outreach and PR initiative to elect women from W PA to the State House, which has included recruiting, training, some campaign management and fund raising for eight female candidates.  Three of these women were elected in the November 2006 General Election.

Gloria has been a Pennsylvania Faculty member for the Center For Progressive Leadership since 2005, working as to train and coach emerging political leaders during the initial run of CPL’s nine month, statewide Fellowship Program.

Gloria has also served as Campaign Manager for Patrick Dowd’s 2003 Pittsburgh School Board campaign, the first Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project, an organization started to advance the issues of young people in the Pittsburgh area, and helped run the UltraViolet Loop Demonstration in 2001 - a highly successful, innovative transportation project, which created a weekend bus route that ran only to Pittsburgh's entertainment and cultural districts.

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