Gina M. Calcamuggio
Director of Partner Engagement & Advocacy
Gina M. Calcamuggio has spent her career amplifying awareness and advancing the mission of higher education institutions, arts organizations, and community-based non-profits. She is an experienced creative professional and proven communications strategist valued as much for building successful campaigns as she is for her tireless pursuit of excellence, her commitment to collaboration, and her unwavering idealism.
Prior to joining the Michigan Health Improvement Alliance (MiHIA) as the Director of Partnership Engagement & Advocacy, she served in senior leadership positions for large, state universities as well as a private, liberal arts university in Ohio, which included Otterbein University, Ohio University, and the University of Toledo. Her leadership at these institutions produced award-winning materials, which include building the creative materials for the largest comprehensive fundraising campaign in one school’s history; more than 20 years of developing and authoring admission recruitment campaigns; and championing the first fully integrated marketing and advertising campaign for another institution. One of her most hopeful campaigns gave her the chance to coordinate a university’s kindness initiative that fed into a larger regional effort to remind the central Ohio community that, “Kindness Matters.”
Gina is passionate about serving organizations that are committed to advancing a greater good – whether amplifying a university’s historic commitment to access and affordability, to bolstering character asset development in a school district, or to ensuring the financial stability of Michigan’s oldest community theatre. She is proud to now help champion MiHIA’s critical work in serving the people of central Michigan and is honored to join the accomplished team of advisors and professionals working on MiHIA’s Rural Health Transformation Program in Michigan.
Gina has been married to Tom, her college sweetheart, for 31 years. They have one daughter, Bella, who is an actress and performer based out of New York City.