Airport Honored for Outreach to Disadvantaged Businesses

For more than a decade, Virginia Culbreath has worked to promote greater diversity and inclusion among companies doing business with the Allegheny County Airport Authority.

As the administrator for the Authority’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program, Culbreath and her colleague Jennifer Clossin-Kerr, manager of DBE compliance, help minority-, women- and LGBT-owned businesses bid for contracts, from reading legal documents to securing the bonds to qualify for the work.

“What we’re trying to do is let the small businesses and DBEs know that somebody is advocating for them,” Culbreath said. “The whole point is for small, minority-owned or women businesses out th