This Partners & Progress section of OMNIA is dedicated to highlighting Penn Arts & Sciences’ vibrant and generous community of alumni, parents, and friends.
(Clockwise from top left) Trang Do, C’06; Jennifer Cleveland Nichols, C’07, GSE’10; Mana Nakagawa, C’07; Glenn Singleton, C’86
PWA Elevate Yourself Leadership Series
The Professional Women’s Alliance (PWA) launched its leadership series with a virtual panel on Disrupting Implicit Bias and Promoting Inclusion. An audience of 161 tuned in for a discussion of the effects of implicit bias on an organization’s ability to pursue and promote a diverse and inclusive community and how biases impact perceptions. Trang Do, C’06, moderated and panelists were diversity and inclusion experts Jennifer Cleveland Nichols, C’07, GSE’10; Mana Nakagawa, C’07; and Glenn Singleton, C’86.
For more information, visit the Professional Women's Alliance.
Photo by Eric Sucar, University Communications
Become a Mentor With Ben Connect
This fall, Ben Connect matched alumni and students for a semester-long formal mentorship program. Mentors provide insight based on personal experience in career and academic pursuits, and students ask questions about career development, goals-setting, and career-related decision making. If you are interested in being a mentor for the spring cohort, contact Kathe Archibald at kathea@sas.upenn.edu.
Ben Connect is a platform where College alumni and students can share their stories and form long- or short-term virtual mentorships.
Learn more at benconnect.sas.upenn.edu.
Penn Arts & Sciences at Work
Penn Arts & Sciences at Work is a photoblog series that highlights College alumni in their workplaces and encourages reflection on how and why their careers took shape.
To see more, visit Penn Arts & Sciences at Work.
Photo by Brooke Sietinsons
“Ministry means getting into the mud with people, and inevitably, some of that mud gets on you. So, I think of ongoing self-care—therapy, exercising, being with my kids, and reading my comic books.”
-Charles “Chaz” Howard, C’00
Chaplain and Vice President for Social Equity & Community, University of Pennsylvania
Urban Studies Major, Afro-American Studies Minor
Philadelphia, PA
Courtesy of Anil Chitrapu
“I wish when I started at Penn I had someone tell me, ‘You will get through this and you will achieve incredible things because you’re around some of the brightest minds.’”
-Anil Chitrapu, C’16
Senior Manager of Podcast Growth, Condé Nast
Biology Major
New York, NY
