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“Pushing Penn From Within”: Looking Back on 30 Years of the Netter Center

DEDEEPYA GUTHIKONDA

34TH STREET

Friday, December 9, 2022

The Netter Center has spent decades working behind the scenes to rehabilitate Penn’s relationship with West Philadelphia.

There’s something about the Netter Center that makes people want to stay, keeping its former volunteers tied to Penn. Year after year, graduated students mark their work with Netter as the start of their careers, trailing years of undergraduate involvement. There’s no better example to look to than Netter’s founder,  Ira Harkavy (C ‘70), who attended Penn as an undergraduate and founded the center in 1992.

30 years later, Harkavy looks back on the work that Netter has done to promote Penn’s civic and community engagement within West Philadelphia via student and institutional programming.

To read the full article and learn more about the 30 years of Netter's history, click here.