Educate Philly

PROGRAM

PSYCH 101: STUDENT MENTAL HEALTH AND COVID

Our panelists’ experience working in schools and with students will provide insight into the pandemic’s effects on students’ perceptions of education, themselves, and the world.

• Katherine Dahlsgaard, PhD, Founder and Director of Brave is Better Consulting and Therapy and Founder and Former Clinical Director of the Anxiety Behaviors Clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
• Richard Gordon, Principal, Paul Robeson High School and 2020-21 National High School Principal of the Year
• Farah Jimenez, President and CEO, Philadelphia Education Fund — Moderator

Farah Jimenez

STUDENT AWARD WINNERS

Our student award winners remind us that as the present continues to challenge us, bright young futures are blossoming with our support.

Rising Star Awardees – two exceptional high school seniors who participated in PEF’s College Access Program

• Aslyn Anaya Planas, Olney Charter High School, will attend Thomas Jefferson University
• Rayane Hamadouche, Horace Furness High School, will attend La Salle University

Shining Star Awardee – a Last Dollar Scholarship recipient of high achievement

• Lana Resuello will be a senior in the Nursing program at Gwynedd Mercy University

Lana Resuello

CELEBRATION OF ART BALDADIAN

The Philadelphia Education Fund will honor Art Baldadian, the driving force of the Philadelphia Scholars program and Last Dollar Scholarship, at this year’s Gala. Already retired from his career, he is now retiring from a second career as volunteer steward of the program that he and co-founders A. Morris Williams and John Neff established decades ago.

Art has given his invaluable investment expertise, financial support, and passion to help students who, like him when his family came to this country, possess ability and ambition but need guidance and resources to find a winning path in high school and succeed in college and beyond. Literally thousands of Philadelphia public school students have been able to seek their dreams in a four-year college because of Art’s generosity. Please join us to celebrate his impact.