Board Members
Officers
President
J0n J. Danzak
Board member since 2018
Regent Square Resident since 1989, Jon serves as the membership coordinator. Jon also organizes the litter clean-up at the Parkway Interchange. In the past he maintained the RSCA web site and newsletter for about 10 years, served as board member, vice president and president and was a founding member of the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association. He has served on and off the board at various times as well as regularly volunteering for community activities.
Communications Chair
Rachel Hermann
Board member since 2025
Rachel and her husband first moved to Regent Square in 2014 and instantly fell in love with the community events, friendly neighbors, and walkability of the area. After moving out of state for a job in 2017, her and her husband returned to Pittsburgh in 2021 and decided that Edgewood was the perfect place to raise their young children. Rachel has a background in design and currently works as a packaging designer for a coffee company. In her free time Rachel loves playing and watching soccer! Rachel spends time working on communications for the RSCA with web, post-card and newsletter updates as well as helping with events.
Treasurer
Margie Gallik
Board member since 2022
Margaret (Margie) Gallik is the Tax Manager at the Law Offices of Kathleen D. Schneider, a law and tax firm located at 1227 South Braddock Avenue. She is an Enrolled Agent with the IRS and she has worked with Kathleen’s firm since 2002. Margie's main focus is on tax matters, but she works with many interesting clients in the tax and legal aspects of the firm and everyday is a new adventure. The tax and financial expertise she brings to the RSCA is an asset that enables us to manage finances well and keep on a sound financial footing. While managing finances she also makes time to regularly participate in event planning and management.
Margie grew up in Edgewood in the 1300 block of South Braddock Avenue and moved to Swissvale near the library more than 30 years ago. She is the proud mother of 3 adult daughters, and grandma to 4 fur-babies. Margie moved back to the Square when she married her husband, Victor, in October 2020.
Paul Brahan
Board member since 2023
As a lifelong Regent Square resident, Paul is passionate about community engagement and improvement. His favorite things about living in the neighborhood are his neighbors, proximity to Frick Park, and all the local bars and restaurants. During the day, he is a Financial Advisor at Fort Pitt Capital Group, and manages a thriving Instagram account focused on cooking and dining out.
Paul has been active with event planning, funding and business membership. He’s added “The Regent Square Bar Crawl” to the RSCA event portfolio last year. Based on it’s success it’s being planned to be an annual event.
You may catch him and his wife, Taylor, and their English Bulldog, Murphy, walking around Regent Square.
Sarah Carr
Board member since 2021
Sarah grew up in Regent Square. With Frick Park as her backyard, she gained a love for the outdoors and adventure. She has a background in nonprofit work, event management and is currently the Events & Social Media Manager for 3 Rivers Outdoor Co., where she focuses on community building. Sarah’s hobbies include backpacking, rock climbing, yoga & traveling to National Parks. She currently resides in Edgewood.
Sarah continues to be helpful with her insight into issues with the business district as well as a liaison with 3 Rivers Outdoor to provide space and support to the RSCA for events in the Braddock Avenue business district as well as the greater community.
Michael Eannarino
Board Member since 2017
Michael, a resident of Regent Square since 1987, is a former Development Manager for the Housing Authority in the City of Pittsburgh. He’s been a Regent Square resident since 1987. Now retired he’s an avid bicycle rider and traveler who enjoys the area, particularly the Parks and proximity to nature. His experience working in government and with municipal regulations offers a level of expertise to the Board as it deals with the four municipalities that compose Regent Square. Mike worked to get a permanent infrastructure established on utility poles for Holiday Lighting and has successfully managed, implemented and kept the program going for several years. He also actively works to get financial support for the effort as well as lends a hand with other RSCA activities.
Vice President
Aidan Kestigian
Board member since 2025
After a six-year stint in Pittsburgh in the 2010s, Aidan and her husband returned to Pittsburgh in 2023. In her role as Vice-President she works with overall organization management, communications and event planning.
Originally from New England, she and her husband love the relaxed and close-knit community that Pittsburgh neighborhoods provide. On that front Regent Square is unmatched! Outside of RSCA Aidan is the VP of a Boston-based education nonprofit that works to scale critical thinking instruction at colleges and universities globally. You might see Aidan walking around the Square with her Great Pyrenees/Collie mix named Higgins. Higgins loves meeting new people— please say hello!
Secretary
Perry Recker
Board member starting 2024
PPerry is a retired college librarian (Pitt, 1986) and longtime environmental and social justice advocate with a special interest in community development. He currently serves as secretary for the board and also has been working with tree and garden related issues in Regent Square, specifically looking after the health of trees in the Business Districts as well as potential uses for empty green spaces in the community..
He retired from library work in 2015 when he and his wife, Barbara, moved back to the Pittsburgh area from Illinois. While living in Jefferson Borough, Perry volunteered with the Robertson Arboretum and became a Tree Tender. When Barbara retired, they moved to Regent Square in 2019, and soon took up gardening in 2 empty lots next to their apartment on the end of La Clair Avenue. Perry has been a volunteer member of the Swissvale Shade Tree Advisory Committee (SSTAC), and sees tree care, gardening, and the development of urban tree canopies as a small but significant effort to reduce some of the negative effects of climate change.
Board Members
Regular
Christine Furman
Board member since 2021
Christine has been a resident of Pittsburgh since 2010 and of Regent Square since 2020. She loves living so close to Frick Park and enjoys the community in Regent Square! Christine works in healthcare technology and in her free time volunteers at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and is currently running for Edgewood Borough Council.
As a past president of the RSCA her continued involvement with the group brings continuity and knowledge to newer board members as well as helps grow the organization. Her energy and participation has been the key to the success of many of the events that the RSCA does.
Lisa Moss
Board member since 2021
Lisa Moss is a resident of Regent Square. Lisa has 30 years of experience with nonprofit organizations, currently as CFO with Fred Rogers Productions. Lisa enjoys the Regent Square neighborhood so much, she is also an agent with Neighborhood Realty Services located in Regent Square. Her background in nonprofit accounting and Master’s in Business Administration brings several different areas of expertise to the Board. Her expertise is particularly valuable in planning discussions for current and future events as well as overall organizational development.
Lisa and her husband are transplants from Northern Virginia and they’ve lived in western PA for many years. She, her husband and Weimaraner, Maisie are happy to call Regent Square their home for the last 12 years.
Sally Thomas
Board member since 2021
Sally is a family law attorney with over 20 years of experience and is currently working at The Law Office of Kathleen D. Schneider, one of Regent Square's longest-standing businesses. Sally began her legal career as a family law paralegal more than 30 years ago before earning her JD from the University of Pittsburgh and becoming an attorney. Her practice focuses on divorce, support, custody, LGBTQ issues, adoptions, and estate matters.
In addition to offering her legal perspective to the Board, Sally has been a resident of Regent Square for more than 20 years and actively contributes to board activities by leading and assisting with implementation. Her willingness to serve and her proactive approach make her an invaluable member.
Sally lives in a home bordering Frick Park with her two young children, Kinsley and Tristan, and they frequently enjoy the many wonderful parks in the Regent Square area.