Celebrating the Projects for Progress 2023 cohort

In Houston Hall’s Hall of Flags on Tuesday evening, members of the Penn community were quick to network and share ideas around café tables. Among those gathered were staff, faculty, and students across Penn, from the Weitzman School of Design and Penn Medicine, the School of Arts & Sciences and the Graduate School of Education, the Netter Center for Community Partnerships and the Office of Social Equity and Community. The recipients of the 2023 Projects for Progress (P4P) awards joined their peers and mentors, along with previous P4P award recipients, at a reception. First to receive their award was The Breathing Room cohort: Joseph Brand, the site director at the Sayre University-Assisted Community School at Penn’s Netter Center; Dyan Castro, project manager and research associate for Penn Praxis in the Weitzman School; Heather Klusaritz, director of the Division of Community Health at the Perelman School of Medicine; and Amanda Peña, a 2023 graduate of the Master of City Planning program at Weitzman.

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