Our Team

Leadership

Margaret O'Sullivan

Executive Director

Pamela Jones-Burnley

Sr. Director of Business Operations & Process Improvement

Layanara Gonzalez

Sr. Director of Finance and Accounting

Cathy K. Jeong

Director of Survivor Services

Steven Larín, Esq.

Deputy Director

Pat Ma

Director of Strategic Initiatives

Ariel Ressler MacNeill

Director of Health and Newcomer Services

Tiffany Thompson

Sr. Director of Program Operations

Gwen Soffer

Director of Wellness

Economic Empowerment

Iddris Abass

Employment Manager

Raghad Ayoub

Family Literacy Program Coordinator

Khrystyna Balandiukh

Natalia Barber

ERP Case Manager

Sayed Kalimullah Barialai Aqeli

Jona Block

Juliana Brenner

RUI Career Pathways Specialist

Luke Charamella

Briana Creeley

Matching Grant Case Manager

Noah DeWalt

ESL and Digital Skills Instructor

Marzia Ebrahimi

Galyna Goroshko

Matching Grant Support Specialist

Amanda Hercules

Employer Partnerships Manager

Summer Jan

Vocational ESL Liaison

Solomiya Klymyuk

AUSAA Case Manager

Adelaide Kouassi

Matching Grant Coordinator

Siobhan Leonard

Refugee Upskilling Initiative (RUI) Coordinator

Rymma Mylenkova

Employment Readiness & Placement Case Manager

Betsy O'Neil Smith

Senior Manager of Education Initiatives

Temitope Ogungbemi, Ph.D.

English Language Coordinator

Iryna Pustovarova

Reza Saber

Matching Grant Case Manager

Anika Sanzana Khan

Employment Readiness & Placement Case Manager

Nasr Saradar

Associate Director of Economic Empowerment

Maggie Suplee

Family Literacy Lead Instructor

Katherine Tan

Associate Director of Economic Self-Sufficiency & Education Initiatives

Anna Volobuieva

Advancement Counselor

Kavya Weaver

Vocational ESL Instructor

Timothy Wilson

ERP Case Manager

James Winter

Career Readiness Instructor

Teresa Yao

ERP Program Manager

Hasan Yilmaz

Matching Grant Case Manager

Survivor Services

Yalda Abidi

NRPP Case Manager

Nadeen Almanzar

Family Support Coordinator in the HS/PRS UC Program

Sasha Alvarado-Salazar

Survivor Services Case Manager

Brianna Andrews

Manager of Survivors of Torture Program

Anna (Fern) Fernands

Survivor Services Case Manager

Laura Polo Pereira

Family Support Specialist

Jocelyne Rico

Manager of Survivors of Violence and Trafficking Program

Kelly Sagastume

Regional Supervisor in the HS/PRS UC Program

Kimberlyn Sanchez

Rebecca Simmons

Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience Case Manager

Resettlement

Natalia Ageyeva

Newcomers Support Program Case Manager

Romana Gordynsky

Senior Manager of Economic Self-Sufficiency

Eva Isabel Tirado Barrett

Lead Refugee Operations Specialist

Abdullah Jalal

Resettlement Case Manager

Yulia Kashlyuk

Newcomer Support Program Case Manager

Iryna Kokhanevych

NSP Program Manager

Katherine Mensinger

Senior Manager of Refugee Services

Yalda Natiq

Resettlement Case Manager

Fahmida Sarwar

Resettlement Case Manager

Health and Wellness

Nik Ahmadi

Manager of Youth Wellness

Natalia Alvarez-Figueroa, MMT, MT-B

Music Therapist

Rama Arab

Youth Wellness Case Manager

Rebecca Asch, MA, ATR-BC, LPC

Art Therapist, Lead Therapist

Anna Bortner

INSPIRE Case Manager

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

Jesselyn Jimenez

Youth Wellness Coordinator

Christina Kubica

Associate Director of Newcomer Services

Rekha Kutty

INSPIRE Lead Occupational Therapist

Alexandra Limpe

Welcome Case Manager

Colin MacFarlane

Senior Manager of Youth Wellness

Claudia Merritt

Food Access Coordinator

Marianna Nemesh

INSPIRE Case Manager

Jolie Nyirasengimana

Wellness Liaison

Mimisola Onijoko

Resettlement Education Case Aide

Shouq Ramadan

Syrian Wellness Liaison

Alan Sandoval-Tellez

Youth Wellness Liaison

Raia Santos

Community Engagement Coordinator

Moumena Saradar

Senior Manager of Wellness

Carrie Sawyer

Health Access Coordinator

Selemani Sikasabwa

Wellness Liaison and Interpreter

Kyra Sjarif, LPC, ATR-BC, CCTP

Art Therapist & Counselor

Colleen Swanhart

Cultural Orientation and Women's Health Specialist

Iryna Teslia

Wellness Liaison

Benjamin Winkler

Youth Career Case Aide

Legal Services

Joseby Anne-Joelle Jeannot

PAIFUP Legal Assistant

Kelvin Ayora

Legal & Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow

Jonah Eaton

Supervising Litigation Attorney

Marta Godlewska

Agnieszka Grochowska

Supervising Attorney

Maggie Kopel

Independence Foundation Fellow and PAIFUP attorney

Som-Mai Nguyen

Ornella Njoya

Legal Assistant

Alexandra Santos Bocheciamp

Ani Schug

DOJ Accredited Representative

Kathryn Smith

DOJ Accredited Representative

Lilah Thompson

Supervising Attorney - PA Immigrant Family Unit Project

Maria Thomson

PAIFUP Staff Attorney

Whitney Viets

Senior Staff Attorney

Mikaela Wolf-Sorokin

Legal & Skadden Fellow

Administration

Eduardo Burgos Quezada

Stoneleigh Emerging Leader Fellow

Yuliia Kovbasista

Payroll and Benefits Manager

Ana Ortiz

Administrative Assistant

Olivia Piña

Development & Communications Associate

Daniel Wagman

Staff Assistant

Kyryl Zhukov

Accounting Manager

Data and Compliance

Mars Hohenstein

Compliance Specialist

Margaret Lyman

Donor Database Administrator

Carolyn Ziembo

Senior Manager of Organizational Data and Quality