Gina Catanzarite is an award-winning television producer, writer, and educator who has worked both nationally and locally in her fields since 1987. Currently, Catanzarite operates her company, Arania Productions, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.  She counts 16 Emmy awards, 39 Emmy nominations, a Matrix award, 2 Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters Awards, 8 Telly Awards, 3 Golden Quill Awards, an Ohio Associated Press MEA award, and a screenwriting grant from the Theatre Association of Pennsylvania, among her many professional honors.  She also was recognized with a Carnegie Science Award as the 2018 Science Communicator of the Year; and she is on the Board of Governors for the Mid-Atlantic Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

Projects range from studio-based talk shows to documentaries and TV-magazine-format programs covering a wide range of subject matter. Public affairs issues, workforce development, clinical and translational science, medical topics, and STEM and other education issues are frequent themes of her work.

Catanzarite holds a Masters degree for Journalism Educators from Kent State University, where she graduated summa cum laude and also was the recipient of the 2014 James Sutherland Endowed Scholarship for outstanding graduate students.  Her area of academic specialty is the social role and ethical responsibilities of mass media. She has taught as an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at Point Park University since 2006. Catanzarite is a 1987 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, with degrees in Non-Fiction Writing, Film Theory, and a certificate in American Sign Language for the Deaf.