BUFFALO, NY - Liz Culliton Washo hit the ground running this fall, when she became the college’s new director of alumni engagement. Charged with building a strategic and sustainable alumni program, Washo will work to reconnect the college’s graduates with alma mater through new career development, student recruitment, philanthropic and mission-driven initiatives.
Washo is the former associate director of alumni relations at the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned Wharton School of Finance. In this role, she helped grow reunion weekend attendance by as much as 18 percent through her strategic coordination of volunteer committees. Washo comes to Canisius from Penn’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
A Buffalo native, she earned bachelor’s degrees in communications and the history of art and architecture from the University of Pittsburgh, and a master’s degree in higher education from the University of Pennsylvania.
