Anna Slobodnyak is currently a member of Substation Asset Management, Maintenance Program Planning at Duquesne Light Company (DLC). In this role, she focuses on maintaining DLC’s station control batteries which provide DC power to the substation’s protection and control systems. Prior to this role, Anna was a NERC and PJM certified switching dispatcher – DLC’s second woman to hold this role.

 On behalf of DLC, Anna has participated in the Carnegie Science Center’s Sci-Tech Days and Engineer Your Future events for local schools; her favorite event was conducting a tour of the DLC Operations Center for the CSC’s Tour Your Future program which was specifically created for local middle and high school girls to visit universities and businesses and experience a day in the life of women STEM professionals.

 Anna graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2017 with a BS in Electrical Engineering, Power Concentration.