Carnegie Mellon University

Media Relations

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Peter Kerwin

Director, Media Relations

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Peter Kerwin is focused on developing strategies that ensure CMU's great stories are reaching a broad audience of journalists, editors and producers. He previously served as a media relations manager at the University of Delaware and at the Wisconsin School of Business at UW-Madison, where he developed quarterly reporting systems to track key metrics around media coverage for those institutions. Prior to that, he was a communications lead for several state and local executive officers in Rhode Island and directed outreach and marketing for the state's 529 college savings plan. He is an avid reader, cook, tennis player and an occasional actor/director with community theater groups.

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Cassia Crogan

Senior Media Relations Specialist

Cassia Crogan amplifies the stories of the Carnegie Mellon University community to local, national and international media and audiences. Previously, Crogan did similar work at Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business and the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. Crogan also worked at Point Park University's Pittsburgh Playhouse, where she honed in on her media relations skills and earned her master's degree in media communications. She enjoys long walks through the aisles of the nearest beauty supply junction and is a doting cat mom who is always game for a scary movie or a good book.