Newsmaker: Jeff Tripodi

Noteworthy: Tripodi received the 2015 Roy A. Hunt Foundation Award for Commitment to Education in the Arts and Humanities from Point Breeze's Frick Art & Historical Center.

Residence: Stowe

Age: 40

Family: Wife, Caroline, children Contessa and Roman.

Occupation: Tripodi has taught social studies at Blackhawk High School in Chippewa, Beaver County, for eight years. He serves as coordinator of the high school's gifted education program.

Education: Earned a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University in New York and a master's in teaching from the University of Pittsburgh.

Background: Tripodi began taking students to the Frick in 2012 as part of two high school programs, “Pittsburgh 1892: Industry and Society,” and “Pittsburgh 1892: Portraits of Power.” The programs offer students an opportunity to tour the Frick's Clayton, the restored former mansion of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, and Car and Carriage Museum for a broader look at local and national history.

Quote: “The programs at Clayton immerse students in our rich regional history, while humanizing these titans of the Gilded Age.”