10 Questions for...Penny Murray

Check back often for regular installments of the smash-hit-blog-post “10 Questions For…” We’ll be asking all the staff of EECM the same 10 Questions, designed to give you a more thorough (though not necessarily deeper!) insight into the people who make the EECM world go round.

10 Questions for...Penny Murray, Financial Director

1) How long have you been at EECM? In what capacities?

I’ve been here for going on 12 years as Financial Manager and Financial Director.

3) What do you do when you’re not at EECM?

I drive myself crazy with Sudoku puzzles, care for my menagerie (including cats, birds, fish and a bunny) and garden in the paradise that my husband created.


4) What is your favorite Pittsburgh restaurant?

Café Allegro

5) List the three adjectives that best define your personality:


Fun-loving
Musical (we break out into song regularly at work)
Optimistic


6) What do you like best about working for EECM?

My co-workers


7) Who is the best TV/movie villain of all time?

Darth Vader



8) List four previous jobs you’ve had:

Clerk at a spiritual/mystical bookstore
Before and after-school children’s program
Pop/rock singer (with a band)
CPA/Tax accountant

9) What is your favorite book?

"Awareness", by Anthony de Mello

10) What is your favorite (and least favorite) thing about Pittsburgh?

Favorite: City Theatre

Least Favorite: Too many gray days! (about 203 a year, in fact)