Fall 2018 campus convocation speaker announced

Holly Pilcavage will be the Fall 2018 Convocation speaker at Penn State Wilkes-Barre, according to Student Affairs & Engagement. 

An NEPA Native, Pilcavage is currently the director of Business Development & Operations at CoalCreative, an Internet Marketing Company in downtown Wilkes-Barre, and the founder of Project Wednesday, an organization that fosters positive human development while addressing human resilience, overall well-being and the various factors that contribute to it.

Pilcavage was named a 2017 Top 20 Under 40 by the Northeastern Pennsylvania Business Journal, is a recent graduate of the 2018 Leadership Wilkes-Barre Core Class, as well as a Forbes 30 Under 30 Nominee and TEDx alumna. She serves on the Board of Directors for Dress for Success of Luzerne County and attributes her additional time as a servant leader for various organizations throughout Luzerne County.  

Her truest passion is people. With a background in business development, higher education, and life coaching, Pilcavage focuses her energy on the impact we are all making on one another and the inevitable ripple effect it causes throughout the world. She is currently on a mission to see all 50 states before the exciting age of 30 which means she travels as much as possible while taking the time to learn more about people and how we all fit together as individual puzzle pieces.