Penn Professional Staff Assembly 2025-2026
We wish to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude to the Penn Professional Staff Assembly (PPSA) Executive Board and Committee Representatives for their commitment and dedication to providing an extensive range of valuable resources to full-time staff and the community at large at the university. The PPSA has consistently met the needs of staff in collaboration with the Division of Human Resources and numerous colleagues across the campus. During the 2024-2025 fiscal year, PPSA events attracted thousands of registered participants from our Penn Community. We are grateful to all who generously dedicate their time to this organization, and to the many Penn staff members who actively engage with our events.
Please visit ppsa.upenn.edu to learn more about the PPSA, subscribe to our mailing list, and register for upcoming events for the 2025-2026 academic year. As we look to the 2025-2026 academic year, we are pleased to introduce the new and continuing members of the PPSA board, council, independent committee representatives, and appointed positions.
- PPSA Tri Chairs 2024-2025: Tonya Bennett, Dawn Maglicco Deitch, Natalie Dury Green
2025-2026 PPSA Executive Board
Tri-Chairs
Chair: Dawn Maglicco Deitch, Executive Director, Office of Government and Community Affairs
Chair-Elect: Justin Purohit, Manager, Property Mgmt Accounting Operations, Office of the Comptroller
Past Chair: Tonya Bennett, Director of Educational Technology, Penn Vet
Members at Large
2024-2026 Term
Joseph-James Ahern, Senior Archivist, University Archives
Lamesha Brown, Director, College Achievement Program
Elona Canaj, Business System Analyst, Penn Vet
Monica Jacobe, Director of Advising, Wharton Undergraduate Division
2025-2027 Term
Jeremy Gatens, IT Director, Division of Human Resources
Alisha George, Assistant/Web Editor, Almanac
Erika Gross, Chief Operating Officer, Wellness at Penn
Matthew Kennedy, Director of Parking, Penn Parking and Commuter Services
Appointments
LISTSERV Manager: Adam Sherr, Director of Crossfunctional Training, Senior Application Data Analyst, Office of University Registrar
Secretary: Dee Patel, Director of Content, Wharton Marketing & Communications
Treasurer: Jillian Powell, Director of Budget and Analysis, Provost Administrative Affairs
Webmaster: Mayumi Hirtzel, ISC, IT Senior Project Leader
Communications Manager: Andy Maynard, Associate Director of Data Analysis, University Office of Development & Alumni Relations
Book Club Manager: Katherine Toder, Research Project Manager, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
2025-2026 PPSA Committee Representatives
Veronica Aplenc
Noemi Fernandez
Natalie D. Green
AJ Jacobs
Abby Kalkstein
Christopher Klaniecki
Jenny Luong
Elisabeth Maselli
Kait Johnstone Pawlicky
Francesca Pugh-Opher
Bethany Schell
Adam Sherr
Xime Trujillo
Valerie Wrenn
Bruce Zhou