Peggy Beem-Jelley
Peggy Beem-Jelley is the President & CEO of the Epilepsy Association of Western and Central PA. She assumed this position in April of 2014 after 21 years of program experience with the Epilepsy Foundation. Ms. Beem-Jelly’s career spans many years of work in legislative advocacy for disability rights and advocacy organizations including the Arc, Life Service Systems, the Iron City Legal Assistance Workers, and other community-based service agencies in Pennsylvania. She has developed strong general management, program development, human resources, budgeting, planning, board relations, advocacy, fundraising and government relations skills. Ms. Beem-Jelly now uses those skills to lead a team serving 49 counties in western/central Pennsylvania.
