Charlene Payne Parrish

Executive Education Enrollment & Marketing Program Manager, Tepper School of Business

I started at CMU in 2021.  Carnegie Mellon is dedicated to excellence, creativity, and integrity. The Tepper School of Business promotes leadership development with data-driven methods, while Tepper Executive Education empowers leaders to achieve business success — Together, we are shaping The Intelligent Future.

My role involves devising and implementing marketing and sales strategies to increase the visibility of Tepper-branded programming to help potential participants enhance, pivot, and transform professionally and personally within the executive education space. Leveraging technology and social media, I collaborate with internal teams and campus partners to build relationships, raise awareness, attract prospective participants, and protect the lasting impact of the Tepper brand.

During my term, I would like to see the Staff Council expand service to include communities east of Pittsburgh who are experiencing food insecurity and need access to nutritious food.
• “Households headed by single mothers in Allegheny County and Pittsburgh were more likely than other types of households to experience poverty."
• Penn Hills is one of the three largest number of female-headed households in poverty.
• Of the approximately 130,000 families with children living in Allegheny County, 28 percent
were headed by single mothers.
• Of families with children experiencing poverty, 72 percent were headed by single mothers.
• 25 percent of single fathers are living below the poverty line

Favorite Quote:  “When you learn, teach, when you get, give.” —Maya Angelou