Even with a pandemic raging in Italy earlier this year, Amy Baldonieri wasn’t looking to leave her job at the American University of Rome and return to her native Western Pennsylvania.

She was working remotely from her apartment near Vatican City as director of development for the school when she got word about an opening at Rivers of Steel, a Homestead nonprofit that preserves and promotes historic industrial sites in the Mon Valley, including the Carrie Blast Furnaces in Rankin.