March 19, 2020
To President Gutmann and the University of Pennsylvania Administration,
We are writing on behalf of university students, faculty, workers, and community members to express our deep concern with recent measures that the University of Pennsylvania has taken in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We demand the administration to provide a more robust set of protections for ensuring the immediate and long-term economic and psychological safety of the Penn community.
During a moment of global crisis, Penn suddenly forced hundreds of students living in university housing to leave campus on extremely short notice. Many were left with insufficient accommodations and many requests for alternative housing arrangements were flatly denied by the university. Alarmingly, in a March 15th email to undergraduate students’ parents, the university indicated that they contacted landlords to pressure students to vacate those on off-campus housing. This potentially violates the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), a federal law that protects the privacy of student records. As The Philadelphia Inquirer reports, university-wide policy to “depopulate” the campus takes a serious economic, personal, and psychological toll on many students, their families, workers, staff, and community members of Penn.
These are not reasonable responses to prevent the transmission of COVID-19. Indeed, City Councilmember Helen Gym specifically criticized Penn’s decision to immediately remove students from university housing, claiming it contradicts the Philadelphia-wide policy for halting all evictions to stem the outbreak.
The university’s manner of making decisions and communicating them puts us at great unease. We receive intimidating dictates to suddenly evacuate university housing on and off-campus; we see students given no choice but to travel during a pandemic, which, according to the CDC, places them at greater exposure risk to the virus; further, a March 13th email signed by the Provost threatened students on and off-campus with the use of police intervention and academic probation to enforce a social distancing policy, which confusingly contradicted previous messages ensuring that “internal meetings” fewer than 25 people were permissible.
These are objectionable precedents for handling unprecedented crises. They are premised on an unsettling readiness to punish, intimidate, and displace the university’s own students and workers. We cannot allow knee-jerk responses practiced during a moment of crisis to become naturalized into new, routine and unfair procedures.
The University of Pennsylvania still has an opportunity to better care for its students and workers. Many of us–tenured and untenured faculty, adjunct instructors, post-doctoral researchers and instructors, service and maintenance workers, international and domestic undergraduate and graduate students, members of the Penn community–still have many unmet needs.
Because the University of Pennsylvania has the resources, and the professional and moral obligation to meet our needs, we make the following immediate demands:
- Guarantee housing security for all students who require it. The university must approve all on-campus housing requests. Of the hundreds of students who requested housing, a great many of them were denied. They were also informed that they could not appeal the decision. Some of those students remain in Philadelphia in insecure housing situations. The university must guarantee on-campus housing and/or off-campus housing security for all students who need it.
- Provide housing for GAs (Graduate Associates). The GA contracts guaranteed secure and safe housing until June 1, 2020; the university must stay true to the contract by providing housing, utilities, including internet paid for by the university, and all other necessary amenities necessary to survive quarantine in the state of a global emergency. GAs must also be offered testing for COVID-19, as they were working during the undergraduate move-out and potentially exposed themselves to contagions from students returning from travel.
- Cease pressuring landlords to evict students from off-campus housing. Emails from the Provost have stated that Penn is encouraging off-campus landlords to pressure student tenants to leave their homes and depopulate the area. This practice increases the number of students facing housing insecurity and their risk of transmitting or contracting COVID-19. Penn’s protocol contradicts the Philadelphia municipal courts’ decision to put a moratorium on all evictions, as well as the resolution proposed by City Councilmember Helen Gym.
- Guarantee that hourly workers will not face loss of pay because of suspension of university operations. This includes undergraduate students who rely on work-study and will lose hours this semester. While Penn has stated that “At this time, no University paid employee will be put in an unpaid status,” this policy does not clearly protect workers from loss of wages nor does it prevent the university from laying off workers at a later date as the crisis continues. All campus workers, regardless of work status and contract status, should continue receiving full payment by the University. In cases where workers are employed through third-party contractors, the University must demand that the contractors also provide the same benefits, and maintain that our continued association with the contracting agency be contingent on this. We support the Student Labor Action Project’s petition to support Penn Dining Workers.
- Guarantee that salaried and stipended workers, including graduate student workers and post-doctoral researchers, will not lose pay because of extenuating circumstances created by the pandemic.
- Guarantee that all workers on campus have unlimited paid sick and personal leave. In accordance with safety policies recommended by the CDC and other organizations, Penn workers need to be free to take all of the personal time they need without consequence. Considering that Philadelphia schools are closed, Penn workers are facing unprecedented care-taking demands. Additionally, the recovery time from COVID-19 infection is still unknown, and Penn workers must be able to take the necessary time to recover completely.
- Place an immediate moratorium on rent collection for all Penn-owned properties. This includes both properties that are rented by small businesses, such as People’s Books and Culture, as well as the off-campus apartments owned by Penn through University City Associates.
- Guarantee that all workers, students, faculty, and staff on campus are provided with the appropriate protective equipment, including but not limited to: gloves, facemasks, and hand sanitizer.
- Fully cover the costs of COVID-19 testing, treatment, and vaccination. We understand that Penn has stated that all of their insurance plans will cover testing and waive payment sharing for tests, but the current policy for covering treatment is vague and incomprehensive. All payment and access to care should be 100% covered for all university affiliates, regardless of Aetna’s policies and of whether services are provided by an in- or out-of-network provider. The university must also ensure that university health center employees are fully aware that that care will be fully covered for those with insurance through the university or elsewhere.
- Publicly and forcefully denounce opportunistic manipulation of the pandemic to promote racism, especially against Asians and Asian-Americans.
- Guarantee that the Penn Police will never be used nor threatened to be used against students, workers, and community members to enforce COVID-19 policies.
- Reimburse all costs incurred by all university affiliates who leave campus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, including but not limited to: transportation costs; storage costs; rent for those displaced from university housing; and food and living expenses for students who lose access to meal plans.
- Ensure that any students on F-1 and J-1 visas are able to maintain their visa status as needed to lessen the risk of contracting or transmitting the virus. We understand that universities nationwide are still waiting on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guidelines. But we demand that Penn negotiate and advocate for universal visa extensions on behalf of its students and workers.
- Give all students the option to receive a pass/fail grade in any course this semester, and ensure that all grades account for the extreme circumstances that students have faced this semester. In addition, no student’s enrollment status or academic standing should be affected by the events of this semester.
- Offer all graduate students at least a one-semester extension on program progress milestones. This includes, but is not limited to, qualifying masters or doctoral exams and dissertation progress checkpoints.
Because the duration of the pandemic is unknown and its ramifications for the future are indefinite, we believe students and workers will remain compromised on a long-term basis. We thus demand the following longer-term protections from Penn:
- Affirm that the sudden transition to remote teaching is a temporary response to an immediate public health crisis. We demand a letter from Provost promising that remote learning platforms will not remain a permanent standard for the higher education curriculum at Penn. We believe that maintaining a residential setting for faculty and students to create knowledge and interact in classrooms, laboratories, libraries, museums, performative spaces and studios, and other university spaces, is crucial to the intellectual integrity of this institution.
- Guarantee that all incoming graduate students for the Fall 2020 semester will receive their stipend payments in advance, as well as a guaranteed grant to fund their move and travel to Philadelphia. This should apply to all future incoming students henceforth. See GET-UP’s position on the crisis of delayed stipend payment at Penn here.
- Provide all current ABD (All But Dissertation) PhD candidates facing immediate structural gaps in their funding packages with summer funding. Transform all current university fellowships on a 9-month or 10-month stipend disbursement plan into a 12-month stipend that guarantees payment over the summer. This includes, but is not limited to, graduate students on the Benjamin Franklin Fellowship.
Please click on this link and fill out the Google Form to add your signature to this petition! All are welcome to sign — you do not need to be formally affiliated with Penn to show your support!
Read and share testimonials from the Penn Community here!
Group Endorsements
- GET-UP (Graduate Employees Together at the University of Pennsylvania)
- SOUL (Students Organizing for Unity and Liberation at the University of Pennsylvania)
SLAP (Student Labor Action Project)
- Summit City Mutual Aid and Defense
- Graduate Workers of Columbia
- Princeton Graduate Students United (PGSU)
- Drexel Socialists
- SP2 Government
- Penn Buddhism Club
- UAW 2192
Signatures
[Last Updated: 10:50 AM EST April 3, 2020]
Total: 512 signatures
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- Nick Millman, PhD Candidate in the Department of English
- Isaac Rabbani, PhD Candidate in Economics
- Audrey Jaquiss, PhD Student in Political Science
- Aylin Malcolm, PhD Candidate
- Rovel Sequiera, Graduate Student in English
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Rebecca Fishman, PhD Student in Physics
- Ania Loomba, Professor, English Department
- Jamie Song, MPH Student and Graduate Assistant
- Ais Oshilaja
- Eli Sills, undergraduate student
- Sam Samore, PhD Student in English
- Miranda Sklaroff, PhD Student in Political Science
- Noah Cote, concerned Drexel Student
- Concerned Drexel student
- Knar Gavin, PhD in English
- Alexandra Montgomery, PhD candidate in History
- Brendan O’Kane, PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Hrishikesh Somayaji, PhD candidate in Chemistry at Princeton University
- Ivanna Berrios, undergraduate in Comparative Literature
- Jennifer Phuong, PhD Candidate in Educational Linguistics
- Marta Bruce, PhD, RN, Nurse at Penn Medicine
- Devin William Daniels, Ph.D Candidate in English
- Michael Shea, PhD Student in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory
- Sharon Jacobs, PhD Candidate in Anthropology
- Kristina Lewis, PhD candidate in Educational Linguistics
- Faye Chevalier
- Chris Taylor, Associate Professor of English, University of Chicago; Penn PhD (English) 2012
- Hannah LeClair, PhD Student in Comparative Literature
- Kimberly White, PhD Student in History
- Kofi Biney, concerned citizen
- Liz Polcha, Postdoc, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
- Philip Friedrich, PhD Candidate in South Asia Studies
- Dr. Orchid Tierney (Penn alum, grad. 2019)
- Bethany Swann, PhD Student in English
- Samuel Ewing, community member
- Katelyn Hearfield, PhD Candidate in Music
- Christopher Rogers, Ph.D Student in PennGSE
- Apurva Bamezai, PhD student in Political Science
- Sarah Roberts, GSE staff
- Jax Lastinger
- Thomas Greene, Assistant Professor of History
- Josh Millhouse
- Gasira Timir, concerned community member
- Jeff Nagle, PhD candidate, Hist. & Soc. of Sci.
- Aaron Bartels-Swindells, PhD Candidate in English
- Tabitha Ahnert
- Jonah Greebel, PhD Student in English
- jess lamar reece holler — concerned community member
- Sarah Leonard
- Kay Gabriel, Postgradate Research Associate, Princeton University
- Nathaniel Stevens, Clinical Research Assistant and LPS student
- Chloe Kannan, EdD Candidate in Reading/Writing/Literacy
- Emma Troisi, Research Specialist at Penn
- Joy Lai, concerned fellow human being
- Raekwon Burton, Masters Student in Social Work
- Riley Simmons-Edler, PhD Candidate in CS, Princeton University
- Eugene Evans, PhD student in Plasma Physics; Princeton University
- Joe PIETTE, member NALC 157
- Nancy Roane
- John Santoro, Law ’21
- Jeremy Gallion, PhD Student in English
- Andrew J. Smyth, PhD student in English
- Projit Bihari Mukharji, Associate Professor, Hist. & Soc. of Sci., UPenn
- Tommy Benfey, PhD Student in Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University
- Concerned Hispanic studies phd grad student
- Daniella Sánchez Russo, PhD Hispanic Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University
- Ari Fromm, Undergraduate in the College
- Enrique Sherwood Caballero, Undergraduate Student in Political Science
- Katie Sirianni
- Thomas Conners, PhD Student in Hispanic Studies
- Elizabeth M. Lee, Sociology PhD 2014 and Philadelphia resident
- Miranda Weinberg, PhD GSE/SAS ‘17
- Elaine Fitz Gibbon; alumna
- Nicholas Turner
- Heather Jaber, PhD Student in Communications
- Isabella Schlact, Penn undergraduate student
- Akhil P. Veetil, PhD Student in South Asia Studies and Comparative Literature
- Uday Jain, PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
- Myka Fromm, my sister goes to Penn
- Anna Yu Wang, PhD Candidate in Music Theory
- Jared Scruggs, PhD Student in Management
- Karen Schifter, parent of current student
- Anonymous
- Michael Stenovec, PhD Student in Political Science, UCLA
- Anonymous
- Carmen Torre Perez, PhD Student in Romance Languages
- Kalianie Velez, concerned community member
- Naveed Mansoori, Visiting Scholar at SFSU
- Marianne Millman, Parent
- Anonymous
- Samuelle Voltaire, MSW, MPH Student in PSOM, BGWA Chair and FGLIQ Graduate Representative
- Gabriel Winant, Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago
- Nathan Millman; Concerned brother
- Richard Riddick, PhD candidate in French, Yale University
- Andrew Wagner, West Philadelphia community member
- Yvette Chen, master’s student
- Yajna Sanguhan, PhD Student in Political Science
- Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director, McHarg Center
- Anonymous
- Thomas McGlone, PhD student in Philosophy at Villanova
- Avni Sejpal, MA student in English at Villanova University
- Tausif Noor, Spiegel-Wilks Curatorial Fellow, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania
- Janay Garrett, PhD student
- Amanda Winters, concerned citizen
- RJ Bergmann, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature
- Pooja Nayak
- Jessica Bergman, SAS ‘14
- Molly Des Jardin, Penn staff and concerned Philadelphian
- Thomas Hercules Davies, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
- Eyob Tsegaye, Undergraduate Student, Stanford University
- Julia Quintavalle, concerned community member
- A.L. McCullough, MLA II Candidate Dept. of Landscape Architecture
- Nora Reikosky, PhD student Penn GSE
- Erica Yudelman, MLA student
- Rebecca Dean, MSW student at SP2 and Graduate Associate in Stouffer College House
- Amber Mackey, PhD student in Political Science
- Chris Feinman, MA in Landscape Architecture + City Planning
- Rebecca Dean, MSW Student and GA in Stouffer College House
- Xiong Her, Master Student at GSE
- Isaac Gabriel Salgado, PhD candidate in Political Science
- Jennifer Delgado, MSW Student
- Matthew Millman
- Anonymous
- Wichinpong Sinchaisri, PhD Student in Operations, Information, and Decisions
- Rafael Khachaturian, Lecturer, Critical Writing Program
- Brandon Lee, In-house Spouse of Housing Graduate Assistant
- Erin Lee, graduate associate at Penn
- Kalyan Nadiminti, Assistant Professor of English, Gettysburg College; Penn Ph.D. (2017)
- Tianyu Yao, UW-Madison Graduate, concerned community member
- Diana Olivos-Stewart, SAS ‘12
- Aisha Chughtai Grad Student Anthro
- Bakirathi Mani
- Yara M. Damaj, PhD in Political Science
- David Kazanjian, Professor, English and Comparative Literature
- Rachel Hulvey, PhD Student in Political Science
- Sebastián Figueroa, Spanish
- Jake Haut, Researcher
- Kye Barker, Lecturer, UCLA
- Melissa Bradley, concerned PhD student at Villanova University
- Abraham Moussako, JD student
- Ana Almeyda-Cohen, PhD Student in Hispanic Studies
- Anne Norton, Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished Professor of Political Science
- Victoria Xie
- Lakshmi Rivera Amin, Yale University ‘21, Ethnicity, Race & Migration major
- Mercedes Mayna, PhD Student in Hispanic Studies
- Tyanna Slobe
- Haley Cao, Columbia College undergraduate 2023
- Zachary Mankoff, MD Candidate
- Quiya Harris, concerned Columbia student
- Daniel Aldana Cohen, Asst Professor Sociology, UPenn
- Dean Gao, concerned UCLA graduate student
- Pavel Andrade, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies
- Rebecca Naegele, MFA Student, UPenn
- Lenin Lozano Guzmán, PhD Student in Spanish
- Raka Sen
- Matt Crager, Yoga Teacher & Tarot Reader
- Dawn Hailey, concerned member of humanity
- Jalylah Burrell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University
- Pilar Gonalon-Pons, Assistant Professor in Sociology
- Ji Yoon Rhee, MFA
- Shobhna Iyer, PhD student, Stanford University
- Allison Dunatchik, PhD student in Sociology
- Nina Didkovsky, UC Berkeley Undergrad
- Valentina Soto, Upenn MFA candidate 2020
- Kyuri Jeon, MFA Student, UPenn
- Jane Fentress, MFA student
- Charitie Ropati, Undergraduate Student at Columbia University
- Cole Cahill, Columbia University student
- Bhumika Chauhan, NYU
- Ellis Hernandez, MA student, Purdue University Fort Wayne
- Julia Gladstone
- Rebecca M. Sibinga
- Cameron Cook, Northwestern University
- Lex Brown, Harvard College ‘20
- Rebecca Winkler
- Cecilia Innis, NYU student
- James Billingsley, MLA/M.Arch, School of Design
- Brooke Harris, Yale College Student
- Jax
- Irina Sandoval, Undergraduate Student at Dartmouth College
- Molly Davidson concerned community member
- Joshua Joel Anthony, MFA Student
- Erin Kong
- Charlie A. Scott, Brown University ‘17
- Byron R. Núñez, PhD Student in Political Science
- Brook Jaffe, Cornell University undergraduate
- Sam Love, PhD student in Sociology
- Anonymous
- Kellie Ramdeen, Penn ‘18
- Giovani Rocha, Joint PhD Student in Political Science and Africana Studies
- Michael Paarlberg, PhD, assistant professor of political science, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Stephen Perrotti, MBDS Student
- Julian Zeidler MFA PennDesign
- Alexandra Lillehei
- Emilio Martínez Poppe, MFA Student, UPenn
- Hannah Kass, Master of Environmental Studies Candidate at Penn
- Hannah Carlan, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, UCLA
- Razan Idris, PhD Student in History
- Kim Fernandes, PhD student in Education and Anthropology
- Tomeka Frieson, Yale College ‘21
- Gabriela Montes de Oca, Undergraduate Student in Health and Societies
- Ava Kim PhD Candidate in English
- Juan Zazueta, student from UVA in solidarity
- Edelweiss Cardenas, partner of Penn PhD Student
- Francesca Fiore
- Abasenia Asuquo, University of Virginia ’20
- Karen Rile, Lecturer, UPenn English
- Sarah Lynch, Undergraduate at Harvard College
- Jack Sanders, concerned partner of SP2 Student Rebecca Dean
- Amber Rose Johnson, PhD in English and Africana Studies
- Jocelyne Waller, Administrative Coordinator UPenn, PSOM, Path & Lab Medicine
- Hannah Kass, Master of Environmental Studies Candidate at Penn
- Eehwa Ung, Ph.D, concerned community member
- Morgan McDonald, MSW Student at SP2
- Hector Kilgoe, Alumnus, PhD Student in Religious Studies, and Graduate Associate in Riepe College House
- Ashleigh Cartwright
- Nancy Bentley, Professor of English, Upenn
- James Sadler, CAS ’13, GSE ’15
- Amelia Hetherington, concerned community member
- Alba Disla, C ‘19
- Irteza Binte-Farid, PhD student in GSE and Anthropology
- Samira Junaid, PhD (Dept of South Asia Studies, Penn)
- Thomas Collins, PhD Student in English
- Valerie Leibold
- Euiyoung Kim, Yale ’21
- Yulia Kim, PhD student at Columbia University
- Carlos PRice-Sanchez, GA Lauder College House, MA International Education and Development Program
- Michael J. Ernst, Penn Alumnus, Ph.D. Student at Temple University
- Paola Pérez Moreno, Master of Social Work Candidate
- Jason Zhang, Concerned friend of GA
- Iggy Cortez, Mellon Assistant Professor in Cinema and Media Arts, Vanderbilt University, Penn PhD 2018
- Nolan Bensen, Columbia GSAS, EALAC PhD
- Ajay Kumar Batra, PhD candidate, English
- Tim Barker, PhD Candidate in History, Harvard
- Ann Rea, MFA/MSW, 2021
- Carolina Vela
- Aditya Bhattacharjee, PhD Student in Religious Studies
- Samantha Pious, PhD in Comparative Literature
- Naiya Speight-Leggett, concerned community member
- Austin Kronig, M.Arch UMichigan
- Tobi Haslett
- Marissa Wirick, concerned academic student employee
- Arely Pena, MFA student in Penn School of Design
- TJ Ghose
- Jordan Williams, Penn student
- Julio Arias
- Daniel Lapinski, MA Student in South Asia Studies
- S. Patel
- Katharine Hartmann, first year Penn student
- Karen Aquino, CAS ‘12, GSE ‘14
- Hamza Qaiser, Penn Grad 2015
- Natasha Bailey, PhD Student, University of Leicester, UK
- Anonymous
- Kalob Morris, MArch 2020
- Anonymous
- Anonymous
- Malika Kadyrova, alumna
- Jolyon B. Thomas, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
- William Udell, Sculpture Technician and Adjunct Instructor, School of Design.
- Sebastián Gil-Riaño, Assistant Professor, History and Sociology of Science
- Elizabeth L Bynum
- Gabriel Raeburn, PhD Candidate in Religious Studies and History, University of Pennsylvania
- Angus Macdonald, venue manager at the Rotunda
- Katie Pak, GSE Postdoc
- Chad Frazier
- Olivia Harding, PhD candidate, Cell & Molecular Biology
- Zachary Smith, PhD Candidate in Political Science
- Danielle Taschereau Mamers
- JS Wu, PhD Student in English
- Won cha
- Cynthia Gao, NYU
- Bruno Saconi, PhD Student in Nursing
- Tyree Holmes, concerned community member
- Victoria Price, MS Social Policy candidate
- Regina Baker, Assistant Professor of Sociology
- Santiago Cunial, PhD Candidate in Political Science, UPenn
- Katie Levesque, researcher at the school of design, alumna SAS and PennDesign
- Alexis Rider, PhD candidate in Hist & Soc of Science
- Isaac Yearwood, Undergrad; Yale College
- Shelley Zhang, PhD Student in Music
- Dr. Nilay Özen, physician and concerned parent
- Paul Saint-Amour, Professor and Chair of English
- Tunga Tuzer
- Nuri Dagdeviren
- Anonymous
- Suvir Kaul, Professor of English, Univ of Pennsylvania
- Gillian Maris Jones, PhD student in Anthropology and Africana Studies
- Kirby Sokolow, PhD Student in RELS
- Joseph Painter, MFA 2020
- Kay Lee, MFA, UPenn
- Wesley Neal, Undergraduate
- Nat Rivkin, PhD Student in English
- Aliyah Bixby-Driesen, PhD student, anthropology
- Ellen Bryer, PhD student in Sociology
- Dana Khromov, PhD candidate in Romance Languages
- Tali Rosenman Ziv, UPenn
- Anonymous
- Aislinn Pentecost-Farren, UPenn Masters Candidate in Fine Art and Historic Preservation
- Khyra Lammers
- Rebecca Leech, former IT employee at GSE
- Ericka Beckman, Associate Professor of Romance Languages
- Amrita Stuetzle, MFA Student, UPenn
- Jessica Lin, MFA UPenn
- Daniel Morales-Armstrong, PhD Student in Africana Studies
- Sean Toland, PhD Candidate in History, Princeton
- Ted Kelly, Workers World Party
- David O’Connell
- Juliana Zhou, Masters Student in Social Policy
- Max Johnson Dugan, PhD Student in Religious Studies
- Jonathan Feingold, Law ’22
- Jordan Rockford, community member and educator
- German Pallares. PhD Candidate in Architecture
- Diami Virgilio, PhD student, Annenberg School for Communication
- Darlene Hodge Rodriguez – Undergraduate Student
- Yu-te Chiang, PhD Student in Comparative Literature
- Anonymous
- Assil Frayha, PhD Student in Communications
- Siel Agugliaro, PhD Student in Music History
- Julie Rivkin, Professor, Connecticut College, Parent of Penn PhD student
- Emily Bunker MLA 2022
- Kate McCormick, friend of current students and alumni
- Lauren Bridges, PhD Student in Communication
- Andrew J Ortiz, Master’s Student in Social Policy
- William Mullaney
- Illya Mousavijad, MFA student
- Jared Jones
- Gabriel Udell, Undergraduate at Pomona College
- Emmanuela Soria Ruiz, UPenn MFA
- Amy Schindelman, Penn GSE alum
- Jeremy Steinberg, PhD Student in Religious Studies
- Liliana Torpey, friend of Penn students and concerned community member
- fields harrington Penn Alumni
- Diana Solano-Oropeza, undergraduate physics student at Drexel
- Isabel Bartholomew
- Chelsea Cohen, PhD student, Anthropology
- Taylor Heath, PhD Student in Sociology
- Ayesha Sheth, PhD Student in South Asia Studies
- Mery Concepcion Yale College ‘20
- Chi-ming Yang, Associate Professor of English
- Breanna Moore, PhD Student in History
- V Goren – concerned citizen
- Ertuğrul Karabulut
- Rachel Swym, Undergraduate Student
- Lauren Davis, Penn Law ’21
- Chun Zhang
- Lincoln W Daniel, concerned community member
- Kimberly Shoemaker, M. Arch
- Fred Schmidt-Arenales, Alum
- Mallory Rappaport, MSW Student
- Sue Pierce, Arcadia University
- Narendra Haynes, MFA
- Arshdeep Singh Brar, PhD Student in South Asia Studies
- Anonymous
- Mitch Chisholm, M.Arch candidate
- Aashish Gupta, PhD student, Demography and Sociology
- Ella Israeli, incoming MSW student
- Ethan Plaue, PhD Student in English
- Anonymous
- Nikil Saval
- Jeffrey Price, Parent of student
- Claudia Elcock-Price, Parent
- On behalf of my grandon, Hector
- Sarah Cate, Penn Alumni
- Tamara Griego, community member
- Stephanie Smalling, concerned member
- Aliyah Cunningham, Yale College Undergraduate
- Tabitha Mustafa, Wharton PhD Student in Business Ethics
- Laura Silverman, PhD Candidate in Political Science
- Zain Mian, PhD Student in Comparative Literature
- Catherine Valverde
- Kirsten Barboza, College Undergrad
- Ruth Bucci
- Qiyang Zhang. Masters student at Penn GSE
- Ming Jiang, UPenn
- Catherine Valverde MLA 2020
- Muxin Sun, Master’s student at GSE
- Shweta CHOPRA, Alum SP2 2019
- Wenjing Fang, UPenn
- Bhumika Chauhan, NYU
- Siqi Xu
- John Huemmler
- Tyler Lawson
- Gloria Rubac
- Marco Avilés
- David Alff, Assoc Prof of English (SUNY-Buffalo), Penn PhD 2012
- Gwen Comings, MFA ‘17
- Kaitlin Hoak, friend of Penn GA
- Patricia Cuevas, Almunni
- Tashauna Bagby
- Elijah Gunther, PhD Student in Mathematics
- Leniqueca Welcome, PhD student at UPenn
- Anonymous, UPenn PhD Student in Political Science
- Elliott Branch, Wharton ‘78
- Sarah Kim
- Taylor Goldberg, Master of Social Work student
- Samantha Daniels, MSW, SP2 Class of 2018
- Julia Hah, MSW/MPH UPenn
- Justin Miller
- Sero Toriano Parel, PhD Student in Neuroscience, Princeton University
- Julianne Shrieve, concerned community member
- Rachel, MSW student
- Sitong Liu, MSW’19
- Haley Mills, MSW Student
- Concerned community member
- Paul Eberwine, PhD student in Classics, Princeton University
- Audrey Huntington WG ‘21
- Jacqueline Robbins
- Melissa Pang, Concerned Community Member
- Ambika Roos, Wharton MBA ‘18
- Erin P Boyle
- Sarah Finkelstein, concerned Philadelphian
- Anonymous
- Megan Fletcher, MSW Student
- Anonymous
- Patricia Thomas, MFA Candidate
- Mike Shrieve, Graduate Student at University of Washington
- Marissa Nicosia, UPenn PhD 2014, Assistant Professor, The Pennsylvania State University – Abington College
- Anonymous
- Naomi Waltham-Smith, Penn SAS faculty 2012–18
- Shannon K. Supple, Smith College
- Alicia Chatterjee, PhD student in Social Welfare
- Anirudh Karnick, PhD student, Comparative Literature & South Asia Studies, UPenn
- Laura Muresanu, MArch Student at the University of Edinburgh – where international students aren’t forced to leave the campus
- Pegah Maleki
- Hallie Nell Swanson, PhD student in Religious Studies
- Yihao Zhang, Graduate Student in Architecture
- Andrew Zhang, WEMBA45, WG2021
- Ella Schwalb, GSE UTAP ’18
- Danielle Kovalski
- Tien Vo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Rachel Frank
- Man Cheung Tsui, PhD Candidate in Mathematics
- Matthew Taft, PhD Candidate in English, Duke University
- Marina Golden
- Professor Janet Montefiore , University of Kent
- Elisabeth Durham, MFA Candidate
- Jacob H Nussbaum
- Stephie Kang, PhD Student at Michigan State University
- Kimberly Cardenas, PhD Candidate, Political Science
- Anju Parvathy Biju, PhD student
- Sonja Dahl, roommate of Penn students
- Meerabelle Jesuthasan, College of Arts and Science 2019
- Elliot Bullen, MLA 2022
- Melissa Sanchez
- Isabelle Luzuriaga- Masters of Social Work candidate
- Beth Feindt-Scott, UPenn Class of 2019
- Casey Kim, Penn MD student
- Chidi Nwogbaga
- Öykü Potuoglu Cook, MSW student, Penn SP2
- Milo Ward, PhD Student Pol Theory; CUNY Graduate Center
- Alexander Cowan, community member
- Jillian Stinchcomb, RELS PhD Candidate
- Sarah Craig, Penn NPL staff
- Serrano Legrand, Ed.D Candidate PennGSE
- Sam Alberg, concerned community member
- Adam Bailey, GSE alumnus
- Autumn Ondo, Candidate MSW at SP2 ’20
- Rebecca Lipstein, RN, UPenn nursing alumni.
- Philip Feibusch, Medical Student
- Emily Harrington, Fine Arts Undergraduate and Bryn Mawr Student
- Alex Graves, Engineering 2019
- Noel Zheng
- Michal Schatz
- Janel Rabbani, concerned community member
- Eugenie Rabbani
- Rachel Basaldua EMBA
- BRETT GURMAN
- Ami Deshpande, MSW/MPH Student
- Anonymous
- NINA WILLBACH
- Stephen Bonett, PhD Student in Nursing
- Naomi Zucker
- Katie Rader, PhD Candidate in Political Science
- Ethan Hill, PhD Student in English at UCLA
- Peter Odell Campbell, Assistant Professor in Composition, Literacy, Pedagogy, and Rhetoric, University of Pittsburgh
- Daniel Moak, PhD (2016) in Political Science
- Mary Kate Matson
- Jimil Ataman, PhD Student in Education and Anthropology
- Stephanie Ko, M.S.Ed. Counseling and Mental Health Services 2019, M.Phil.Ed. Professional Counseling 2020, University of Pennsylvania
- Benjamin Oyler, PhD Music
- Erik Broess, PhD Student in Music
- Gianni Sievers, PhD Student in South Asia Studies
- Geoffrey Durham, PhD Candidate in History
- Savita Ananthan, PhD Student in South Asia Studies
- Sam Schirvar, PhD Student in History and Sociology of Science
- Jessica Dickson, PhD Student at Harvard University
- Hector Kilgoe is my grandson (A concerned grandma)
- Victoria Sanchez, Penn Law 2022
- Katherine Scahill, PhD Student in Music
- Aniebiet Abasi
- Matthew Kubach, Oberlin College
- Sarah J. Jackson, Associate Professor, Annenberg School for Communication
- Randall Burson, MD-PhD Student in Anthropology
- Davy Knittle, PhD Student in English
- E.Ann Matter, Professor Emerita of Religious Studies
- Helen Stuhr-Romereim
- Kerry McAuliffe, PhD Candidate in English
- Sara Meloni, PhD student in History and Sociology of Science
- Kathleen Jones, UPENN Alumni 2009
- Chenelle Boatswain, EdD student Educational Leadership
- Carly Regina
- Marshall Schurtz, PhD Student, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
- William Marble, BA 2015 (Penn), PhD Candidate in Political Science (Stanford)
- Andrew Lamas, Faculty, Urban Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- Paige Pendarvis, PhD Student in History
- Zoe Cooperband
- Lucas de Lima, PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature
- Jessica Peng, PhD Candidate in Education and Anthropology
- Marc Marin Webb, PhD Student in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations