Our Team

Leadership

Jonah Eaton

Director of Legal Services

Pamela Jones-Burnley

Sr. Director of Business Operations & Process Improvement

Steven Larín, Esq.

Deputy Director

Pat Ma

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Margaret O'Sullivan

Executive Director

Gretchen Shanfeld, MPH

Tiffany Thompson

Director of Education and Economic Opportunity

Cathy K. Jeong

Director of Survivor Services

Ariel Ressler MacNeill

Director of Health and Newcomer Services

Layanara Gonzalez

Director of Finance and Accounting

Survivor Services

Yalda Abidi

NRPP Case Manager

Brianna Andrews

Program Coordinator of Survivor Services

Anna (Fern) Fernands

Survivor Services Case Manager

Jocelyne Rico

Program Coordinator of Survivor Services

Rebecca Simmons

Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience Case Manager

Health and Wellness

Natalia Ageyeva

Ukrainian Support Program Case Manager

Nik Ahmadi

Youth Career Readiness Coordinator

Pashtoon Akbari

Afghan Women's Wellness Liaison

Natalia Alvarez-Figueroa, MMT, MT-B

Music Therapist

Rebecca Asch, MA, ATR-BC, LPC

Jie Bin Chen, N.C.C.

INSPIRE Manager

Rebekka Dieterich- Hartwell, Ph.D., BC-DMT, LPC

Dance Movement Therapist

Kara Friesen

Associate Director of Health Services

Romana Gordynsky

Ukrainian Support Program Coordinator

Jesselyn Jimenez

Youth Wellness Coordinator

Yulia Kashlyuk

USP Outreach Specialist

Iryna Kokhanevych

Ukrainian Support Program Case Manager

Christina Kubica

Associate Director of Newcomer Services

Colin MacFarlane

Manager of Youth Wellness

Marianna Nemesh

INSPIRE Case Manager

Jolie Nyirasengimana

Wellness Liaison

Alan Sandoval-Tellez

Youth Wellness Liaison

Raia Santos

Volunteer Coordinator

Moumena Saradar

Manager of Wellness Services

Selemani Sikasabwa

Wellness Liaison and Interpreter

Kyra Sjarif, LPC, ATR-BC, CCTP

Art Therapist & Counselor

Gwen Soffer

Associate Director of Wellness, Trauma-Informed Practice, and Community Culture

Christiana Taylor

INSPIRE Lead Case Manager

Ethan Volinsky

Food Access and In-Kind Coordinator

Language Access and Proficiency

Lianabel Aguilar

Project Manager & PPR Legal Assistant

Greg Niedt

Senior Project Manager

Legal Services

Mana Aliabadi

Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow

Eduardo Burgos Quezada

Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow

Helen Avery Campbell

Agnieszka Grochowska

Senior Staff Attorney

Maggie Kopel

Independence Foundation Fellow and PAIFUP attorney

Camelia Metwally

Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow

Som-Mai Nguyen

Ornella Njoya

Legal Assistant

Ani Schug

DOJ Accredited Representative

Kathryn Smith

DOJ Accredited Representative

Yomaira Tarula-Aranda

DOJ Accredited Representative

Lilah Thompson

Senior Staff Attorney

Whitney Viets

Economic Empowerment

Mohammad Arif Rezwani

Advancement Counselor

Raghad Ayoub

Family Literacy Program Coordinator

Sayed Kalimullah Barialai Aqeli

Amanda Hercules

Refugee Career Pathway Coordinator

Summer Jan

Vocational ESL Liaison

Adelaide Kouassi

Matching Grant Case Manager

Betsy O'Neil Smith

Education Manager

Temitope Ogungbemi, Ph.D.

English Language Coordinator

Mónica Quiñones-Rivera

Vocational ESL Coordinator

Reza Saber

Matching Grant Case Manager

Nasr Saradar

Senior Manager of Economic Opportunity

Isabelle Schechter

Maggie Suplee

Family Literacy Lead Instructor

Katherine Tan

Senior Manager of Economic Self-Sufficiency

Resettlement

Mikayla Bird

Resettlement Legal Liaison

Eva Isabel Tirado Barrett

Lead Refugee Operations Specialist

Abdullah Jalal

Resettlement Case Manager

Yuliia Kovbasista

Ukrainian Support Program Case Manager

Yalda Natiq

Resettlement Case Manager

Kyryl Zhukov

USP Ukrainian Case Manager

Data and Compliance

Mars Hohenstein

Compliance Specialist

Carolyn Ziembo

Manager of Data and Quality

Administration

Ana Ortiz

Administrative Assistant

Daniel Wagman

Staff Assistant

Hannah Schulz

Family Literacy Case Manager