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

Nadeen Almanzar

Career Pathway Specialist

Raghad Ayoub

Family Literacy Program Coordinator

Khrystyna Balandiukh

Sayed Kalimullah Barialai Aqeli

Juliana Brenner

Upskilling Initiative Coordinator

Luke Charamella

Briana Creeley

Matching Grant Case Manager

Romana Gordynsky

Senior Manager of Economic Self-Sufficiency

Galyna Goroshko

Matching Grant Support Specialist

Amanda Hercules

Employer Partnerships Manager

Summer Jan

Vocational ESL Coordinator

Adelaide Kouassi

Matching Grant Coordinator

Temitope Ogungbemi, Ph.D.

English Language Coordinator

Iryna Pustovarova

Lexie Ruth Mitchell

High Medical Needs ESOL Instructor

Reza Saber

Matching Grant Case Manager

Anika Sanzana Khan

Employment Readiness & Placement Case Manager

Nasr Saradar

Associate Director of Economic Empowerment

Katherine Tan

Associate Director of Economic Self-Sufficiency & Education Initiatives

Anyelina Vasquez

Employment Readiness & Placement Case Manager

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

Health and Wellness

Yalda Abidi

INSPIRE Case Manager

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

Jolie Gabrielle

Wellness Liaison

Jesselyn Jimenez

Youth Wellness Coordinator

Christina Kubica

Associate Director of Newcomer Services

Rekha Kutty

INSPIRE Lead Occupational Therapist

Colin MacFarlane

Senior Manager of Youth Wellness

Claudia Merritt

Food Access Coordinator

Madina Ndongo

INSPIRE Case Manager

Mimisola Onijoko

Dental Care Navigator

Shouq Ramadan

Syrian Wellness Liaison

Alan Sandoval-Tellez

Spanish Community Facilitator

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

Iryna Teslia

Wellness Liaison

Newcomer Support Program

Natalia Ageyeva

Newcomers Support Program Case Manager

Eva Isabel Tirado Barrett

Temporary Newcomer Support Program Case Manager

Abdullah Jalal

Temporary Newcomer Support Program Case Manager

Yulia Kashlyuk

Newcomer Support Program Case Manager

Iryna Kokhanevych

NSP Program Manager

Katherine Mensinger

Senior Manager of Refugee Services

Yalda Natiq

Temporary Newcomer Support Program Case Manager

Fahmida Sarwar

Temporary Newcomer Support Program Case Manager

Survivor Services

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

Jocelyne Rico

Manager of Survivors of Violence and Trafficking Program

Kelly Sagastume

Regional Supervisor in the HS/PRS UC Program

Rebecca Simmons

Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience Case Manager

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

Senior Staff Attorney

Yonique Myrie

Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow

Som-Mai Nguyen

Ornella Njoya

DOJ Accredited Representative

Miguel Romero

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

Data and Compliance

Mars Hohenstein

Compliance Specialist

Margaret Lyman

Donor Database Administrator

Carolyn Ziembo

Senior Manager of Organizational Data and Quality

Administration

Yuliia Kovbasista

Payroll and Benefits Manager

Ana Ortiz

Administrative Assistant

Olivia Piña

Development & Communications Associate

Daniel Wagman

Staff Assistant

Kyryl Zhukov

Accounting Manager