Myrna Newman (she/her)
Executive Director
Myrna started working for Allegheny CleanWays as a part-time project coordinator in June 2007 while she started a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) on the farm she grew up on. ACW was appealing to her because her mother had recently been the victim of illegal dumping and she was glad that an organization existed to help such people. Myrna also has some connection to waste tires that she can’t seem to escape. “In my childhood, I had one for a swing. In my teens, I planted flowers in one. In my twenties, I built a house out of about a thousand of them. I escaped them briefly in my thirties only to find myself hauling them by the thousands off of riverbanks and out of ravines and empty lots in my late 30s and early 40s.” Myrna became the Executive Director in 2011 and currently oversees all aspects of ACW, including fundraising, program management, membership recruitment, staff development, marketing and communications, and financial management. Prior to working for ACW, Myrna was involved in public education for 14 years. Later she studied Sustainable Systems at Slippery Rock University and was the lead environmental field technician for a multi-million dollar soil remediation project in Utah.
To contact Myrna, email her at myrna@alleghenycleanways.org or call our office at 412.381.1301
Executive Director
Myrna started working for Allegheny CleanWays as a part-time project coordinator in June 2007 while she started a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) on the farm she grew up on. ACW was appealing to her because her mother had recently been the victim of illegal dumping and she was glad that an organization existed to help such people. Myrna also has some connection to waste tires that she can’t seem to escape. “In my childhood, I had one for a swing. In my teens, I planted flowers in one. In my twenties, I built a house out of about a thousand of them. I escaped them briefly in my thirties only to find myself hauling them by the thousands off of riverbanks and out of ravines and empty lots in my late 30s and early 40s.” Myrna became the Executive Director in 2011 and currently oversees all aspects of ACW, including fundraising, program management, membership recruitment, staff development, marketing and communications, and financial management. Prior to working for ACW, Myrna was involved in public education for 14 years. Later she studied Sustainable Systems at Slippery Rock University and was the lead environmental field technician for a multi-million dollar soil remediation project in Utah.
To contact Myrna, email her at myrna@alleghenycleanways.org or call our office at 412.381.1301
