Kathleen F. Cellura, EDB ’59

“Philanthropy is my passion. I have worked and invested all my life with the sole purpose of giving forward.”

Kathleen F. Cellura, an undergraduate at UB in the mid-1950s-“when it was a private university”- spent 30 years as a teacher in Western New York State and Florida. Referred to as a force in philanthropy, Kathi, for decades, has authorized grants through the Kathleen F. Cellura Foundation at the Community Foundation of Sarasota of County, FL. She has granted scholarship funds to the Graduate School of Education for years and UB is designated as one of her impact bequests.