HIAS Pennsylvania’s 2021 Annual Meeting
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HIAS PA’s Annual Meeting 2021
Congratulations to our Honorees
Program:
Welcome
Cathryn Miller-Wilson, Executive Director
Remarks
Rebecca Katz, Board President
Honoring
Grocery Delivery Volunteers Mindy Silver and Rebecca Benarroch
Honoring
William Leahy of Littler Mendelson
Breakout Session – Chat with a HIAS PA Volunteer!
Breakout room #1: Kathryn Steinbugler and Pooja Agarwal, Pro Bono Lawyers
Breakout room #2: Jennifer Gow, Philly Neighbor
Breakout room #3: Liora Tamir, Adult ESL Tutor, and Casey Klek, Education Program Intern
Hear from an Afghan Refugee
Mohammad Sadiq Sadeed, HIAS Pennsylvania’s Office Manager who was resettled by HIAS Pennsylvania in 2019
Honoring
Our Berger Book Scholarship Winners
Leidy Villalta Fuentez, Laila Abd-Almawla, and Khadijeh Moaddal
Conclusion
Rebecca Katz, Board President
Q&A with Sadiq
Learn about life as an Afghan refugee during the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan
Congratulations to our Berger Book Scholarship Award Winners
Welcome HIAS Pennsylvania’s 2021 New Board Members:
Thank you to all of our volunteers:
Total Volunteer Hours for Fiscal Year 2020-2021
23,352
Total Volunteers (all categories)
198
Top Volunteers by Position
In-Kind Donations Organization & Sorting
Linda Brock
Adele Margulies
Volunteer Interpreters
Gail Cervantes
Denisse Garcia
Emily Fineberg
English as a Second Language (ESL) Tutors
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
Yvonne Brand
Carolyn Eisen
Grocery and Hot Meal Delivery Drivers
Judy Stavisky
Amy Cohen
Teresa Caponiti
Appointment Accompaniment
Leslie Weiler
Margaret Henly
Ahad Firoz
Philly Neighbors
Gene Schneyer
Ashini Patel
Avivah Pinski
Delivery Drivers
Stephanie Fox
Jay Cohen
Mindy Silver
Citizenship Tutors
Sarah Froberg
Barbara Hoekje
Rochelle Ostroff-Weinberg
Youth Mentorship
Judy Raichek
James Marnell
Paige Gardner
Admin Volunteering
Carol Thomson
Kathleen Sholinsky
Margaret Henly
Advocacy Volunteering
Jordan Cole
