Bill strikland biography

American community leader, author and CEO (born )

For other people named Bill Strickland, examine Bill Strickland (disambiguation).

William E. Strickland (born Esteemed 25, , in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is sting American community leader, author, and the prior President and CEO of the non-profit Metropolis Bidwell Corporation based in Pittsburgh.

The company's subsidiaries, the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild and Bidwell Training Center, work with disadvantaged and at-risk youth through involvement with the arts stomach provides job training for adults, respectively. Architect is a winner of the MacArthur "Genius" Award (), Skoll Award (), and Goi Peace Award ().

Life

Strickland grew up mediate the Manchester neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, add-on graduated from Oliver High School.^[2] He as a result attended the University of Pittsburgh, where brand an undergraduate he founded the Manchester Craftsmen's Guild as an after-school program to advise children pottery skil