Our Team
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Jake Robinson
Co-President
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Gabby Scher (she/her)
Co-President
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Sourajit Mukherjee (he/him)
Treasurer
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Siewert Hugelier (he/him)
Secretary
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Mayassa Bou-Dargham (she/her)
President Emerita
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Lindsey Fernandez (she/her)
National Postdoc Association Liaison
President Emerita -
Open Position
Advocacy Committee, Chair
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Louis Prahl (he/him)
Career Enhancement and Training Committee, Co-Chair
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Cátia Marques
Community Outreach, Chair
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Nathan Kong
Diversity Committee, Co-chair
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Patrick Monari
Diversity Committee, Co-chair
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Zinhle Cindi
Foreign National Committee, Chair
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Marcus Woodworth
Fundraising Committee, Chair
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Helen Schmidt (she/her)
Public Relations Committee, Chair
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Lizbeth Gomez
Social Events Committee, Co-chair
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Shrobona Guha
Social Events Committee, Co-chair
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Sourajit Mukherjee
Social Events Committee, Co-chair
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Weibing Yang
Webmaster
Recent Alumni
We are grateful to have been led by exceptionally motivated and hard-working individuals throughout PPA’s history. Our previous leadership team members devoted their time, energy, and skills to the vision and activities of the group, providing current and future leadership with a solid framework for success in our mission to enhance the postdoctoral experience at Penn.
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Kathryn Jacobson
Co-President
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Samantha Deal
Fundraising Committee Co-chair
2024 - 2025 -
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Bishal Basak (he / him)
Treasurer
2022 - 2025 -
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Christopher Panebianco
Social Events Committee Co-chair
2022 - 2025 -
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Christopher Large (he / him)
Social Events Committee Co-chair
2022 - 2025 -
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Sandra Bicher (she / her)
Fundraising Committee Chair
2024 - 2025 -
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Nektaria Leli (she/her)
Fundraising Committee Chair 2022-2024
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Dawn Chen (they/them)
Foreign National Committee Co-Chair 2023-2024
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Ellen Song
Foreign National Committee Co-Chair 2023-2024
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Joanna Medina (she/her)
Diversity Committee, Co-Chairs 2022-2024
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Mikael Garabedian
Diversity Committee Co-Chair 2022-2024
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Patrick Williams-Simon
Community Service Committee Co-Chair 2022-2024
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Christine Vazquez
Community Service Committee, Co-Chair 2022-2024
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Sindhuja Tirumalai Govindarajan
Career Enhancement and Training Committee, Co-Chair 2022-2024
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Alison McCarthy (she/her)
National Postdoc Liaison 2023-2024
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Priya Sivaramakrishnan
President Emerita
Co-President 2021-2023 -
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Terren Niethamer
Advocacy Committee Co-Chair 2022-2023
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Kalina Slavkova
Fundraising Committee Co-Chair 2022-2023
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Rohini Nair
Public Relations Committee Chair 2021-2023
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Michael Duffy
Advocacy Committee Co-Chair 2022-2023
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Andrea Joseph
Advocacy Committee Co-Chair 2021-2023
National Postdoc Association Liaison 2021-2023 -
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Léolène Jean Carrington
Co-President 2020-2022
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Shannon Wolfman
Advocacy Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Suean Fontenard
Fundraising Committee Chair 2020-2022
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Anupreet Sidhu
Treasurer 2021-2022
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Jaclyn Durkin
Secretary 2021-2022
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Laura Kim
Symposium Committee Co-Chair 2022
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Vidhya Krishnamoorthy
Career Enhancement and Training Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Lisa Ohman
Career Enhancement and Training Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Luis de Jesús Báez
Diversity Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Joseph Gaurnieri
Social Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Jasmine Alexander-Floyd
Diversity Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Nicole Anderson
Foreign National Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Arunika Das
Penn Editor’s Association Editor in Chief 2021-2022
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Lindsey Block
Social Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
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Raj Putatunda
Social Committee Co-Chair 2021-2022
