Welcome Jeannine Pitas to Broadway Fillmore Alive

As you know from reading, Broadway Fillmore Alive (BFA) has been looking for someone to come on board and post additional content for the website. After the passing of Michael Miller, and Michele Johnson moving on to new projects, I have been running solo posting content on the website and Facebook. It didn’t take me long to figure out that BFA needed a new face or two to help cover the neighborhood effectively.

Enter Jeannine M. Pitas. She reached out to me via Facebook in late February. After a few exchanges on Facebook, email, and phone, she decided to come on board here at BFA and start contributing to the website and Facebook pages. Her involvement will help BFA expand the content offered and the ability to cover more things in the neighborhood. After communicating, it wasn’t hard to figure it she would be a perfect fit to help tell the neighborhood’s story online and compliment what BFA has been doing since 2006.

Jeannine M. Pitas is a WNY native and the great-great-great niece of Fr. John Pitass, founder of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church. She grew up attending the Polish Saturday School of Buffalo (then housed at St. Stan’s), shopping at the Broadway Market (not just at Easter time), and dancing to polka music before it was cool. Life has taken her to many places – the UK, Poland, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Canada, and most recently Dubuque, Iowa, where she is Assistant Professor of Global Literature at the University of Dubuque. She visits Buffalo as often as she can and remains a proud parishioner of St. Stanislaus. She is eager to see the Broadway-Fillmore district transformed into one of the most lively, diverse and inclusive neighborhoods in Buffalo, true to its Polish-American roots and open to the richness of an increasingly multicultural society.

Welcome to BFA Jeannine! I know our readers are going to enjoy what you bring here.