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GERI DELEVICH
Executive Director
Geri Delevich was an elementary school teacher for 33 years and received numerous awards including the Suburban Cable Teacher Recognition Award, the Buckingham Township Community Service Award, and the Certificate of Achievement Award from the Central Bucks School District. As a teacher with a Master's Degree in educational instructional media, Ms. Delevich and her students produced a 30-minute film, Recycling, Recycling, which aired on Suburban Cable TV prior to mandatory recycling in Bucks County. In conjunction with the President's Summit for America's Future, hosted in Philadelphia in 1997, Ms. Delevich and her fifth grade students produced another 30-minute film for Suburban Cable that included a student interview with then Philadelphia Mayor, now Pennsylvania Governor, Edward Rendell.
Ms. Delevich is serving her third, four-year term as a New Hope Borough Council member. Ms. Delevich has made many positive changes in the town. In 2002 she initiated a landmark ordinance, making New Hope the first borough in the state of Pennsylvania to adopt a comprehensive Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender inclusive non-discrimination ordinance. Ms. Delevich co-produced the documentary With Liberty and Justice for All, a chronicle of the adoption of the ordinance. Passage of the ordinance resulted in New Hope being honored by the Human Rights Campaign with its Equality Award 2003. Ms. Delevich created the New Hope Lifetime Achievement Awards to honor the town’s seniors. In 2005 she was executive producer of the Bucks County Summit on Aging film that focused on three outstanding seniors in the New Hope, PA community. Ms. Delevich is proud to call New Hope home since 1976 and was honored to be chosen as the New Hope/Lambertville Rotary Club’s 2006 Citizen of the Year.
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