Wendy Diina

Wendy joined the Artpark team in 2022. Prior to her arrival she served as Vice President, Corporate Relations & Special Projects at the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra for eleven years where her work included strategic planning and project management for new organizational initiatives and securing funding from corporate contributors. Wendy served in various roles in public television and radio for seventeen years at WNED (Buffalo) and KTEH (San Jose, California) and she authored fundraising scripts for the national Public Broadcasting System’s fundraising campaigns. Wendy received her undergraduate degree in communications from SUNY Fredonia and masters degree from the University at Buffalo in arts management in 2012 where she now serves as an adjunct professor. Wendy is a graduate of the Leadership Buffalo Class of 2016, and serves on fundraising committees for Build Promise, a campaign that is building a homeless shelter in East Buffalo, and Buffalo’s Central Terminal. She is the proud mother of Nick, a junior at Ithaca College (music major) and Violet, a sophomore at SUNY Fredonia (theater major).