Awardees

Chief External Affairs Officer
North10 Philadelphia

Associate Professor of Nursing

Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics

Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design

North10, Philadelphia works to improve life outcomes for community members of the North Philadelphia Hunting Park-East Tioga community so current residents and future generations live happy, healthy, and civically engaged lives. They work with their neighbors to address issues of systemic violence, poverty, and disinvestment that have induced trauma, built barriers, and challenged the health and prosperity of this community. Taking a holistic approach, North10 is striving to make impactful change not only by delivering high-quality programs and services in response to stated community preferences, but also by serving as the community backbone.

Rebel Ventures Board Chairperson

Advanced Senior Lecturer of Nutrition Science
Associate Director of Undergraduate Nutrition Programs, School of Nursing

Practice Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics

Rebel Ventures is a youth-driven healthy food business run by high school students and supported by Penn students that includes a non-profit business entity. At its core it is an educational activity. Students learn about the food system by competing in the real-world competitive food marketplace – the pedagogy is deep engagement through projects, problem-solving, and partnership. To examine these issues the Rebel Crew researches, shares knowledge, seeks out expertise, and makes decisions democratically.

Co-Director
Creative Resilient Youth (CRY)

Research Assistant Professor
School of Social Policy and Practice

Research Assistant Professor of
Computer & Information Science

Research Assistant Professor
School of Nursing

CRY is an intergenerational collective promoting equitable mental health care by realizing youth-led models of care through co-learning, socially engaged art, and leadership training. CRY envisions a future where every young person has the healing resources and skills needed to: Access their authentic selves to define and communicate care for themselves on their own terms; Influence how mental health is talked about and cared for in their peer group, families, and communities, and other youth-serving spaces; and create tools to address injustices in youth mental health care systems

Community Organizer
Philly Thrive

Professor of Nursing CE

Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science

Research Assistant Professor
School of Social Policy and Practice

Philly Thrive won the permanent closure of the South Philly oil refinery, ending 150 years of deadly pollution. Now Philly Thrive organizes to protect affordable housing and fight displacement of Grays Ferry residents, and to win a robust cleanup of the refinery site, family sustaining jobs, and community-reinvestment as the historic refinery redevelopment progresses.

Director of Adult Programs & Community Services
North10 Philadelphia

Associate Professor of Nursing

Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

North10, Philadelphia works to improve life outcomes for community members of the North Philadelphia Hunting Park-East Tioga community so current residents and future generations live happy, healthy, and civically engaged lives. They work with their neighbors to address issues of systemic violence, poverty, and disinvestment that have induced trauma, built barriers, and challenged the health and prosperity of this community. Taking a holistic approach, North10 is striving to make impactful change not only by delivering high-quality programs and services in response to stated community preferences, but also by serving as the community backbone.