Monthly YES Recognition Winners

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New York City - October

Traci Moyer, Associate Director Student Support Services, New York

Recognized by Sue Maxam, Staff, Pleasantville

Thank you Traci for ALL your support and leadership with the wellness pop-up events!! In a matter of minutes you conceived and have led a super-creative series highlighting the 8 dimensions of wellness ALL of which have been incredibly well-received and very impactful so far! To say they have contributed greatly to promoting a culture of wellbeing while spreading positivity would be the understatement of the century!! In case I haven't told you lately...I love you!!

Westchester - October

Kris Abbe, Talent Development Manager, Pleasantville

Recognized by Kellyann Galimi, Staff, NYC

Bravo to Luciana Kris and Mariana for all of their extraordinary efforts to ensure that the PMDP training webinar is engaging and informative! Luciana and Kris presented the new PMDP process in UKG clearly maintained an audience-friendly pace and responded knowledgeably to all questions. Mariana did a great job navigating the QA and chat. Well done HR's Professional Development Team!

Yes I Make It Happen Monthly Nominees

All Employees recognized in the month of October 2025 (PDF)

Previous University–Wide Monthly YES Winners

September 2025

Traci Moyer, Associate Director Student Support Services, New York

Thank you SO MUCH for co-leading both the two major 911 events The Come from Away screening and Pay it Forward 911 initiative this week. Due to your incredible support coordination marketing and leadership both were a HUGE success and incredibly meaningful!!! I'm so very grateful!!!!

Thank you for helping us make our Honors Welcome Week a success! We appreciate you donating your time to give a speech run a session assist with the scavenger hunt assist with Honors move in etc. We could not pull off this event without you.

Thank you for volunteering to help move students into their residence halls! We really appreciate your time and smiles as students both arrived for the first time and returned! Thank you!

Thank you for volunteering to help at Convocation! Your enthusiasm is so appreciated and was essential for welcoming students in — thank you for helping to make it a success!!

Thank you for staffing a welcome table! We appreciate your time and energy answering questions and directing students and we know this makes a big difference as students transition back to campus. Thank you!!

Ron Alexander, Residential Life Administration, Pleasantville

Ron has done a great job in getting the Office of Community Standards name and mission out to the campus community. He has done this through campus wide presentations orientation and opening outreach social media and partnering with our team on resources to share with students. This is great to see and helps proactively address lots of behaviors on campus!

August 2025

Christopher Alice, Information Technology Services, New York

Super fast support with CLASSES...thank you!

Lauren Breslow, Law Instructor, Westchester

Thank you Lauren for embracing the Wellness Ambassador program on both the student and staff/faculty levels in addition to EVERYTHING else you do to promote the holistic wellbeing of the Pace community!! I hope you realize how indelible your impact is on everyone AND how appreciated it is!! You are amazing!!!!

July 2025

Sergio Sandoval, International Programs and Services, New York

For going above and beyond during an incredibly busy OPT and STEM OPT season. Your commitment ensured international students maintained their legal work authorization without delays demonstrating remarkable efficiency attention to detail and service under pressure. Your contributions not only supported student success but also upheld institutional compliance and integrity during a critical period. THANK YOU!

Sheryl Scalzo, Health Science Program, Westchester

Thank you so much for everything that you have done for Honors this year! Thank you for supporting us and our students. Your help with events; admissions; orientation; Welcome Week; our students' records; housing; probation; our computers and systems; scheduling; study abroad; mental health; UNV 101; and more allows us to provide a great experience for our students and their families. We look forward to continuing to work with you in the upcoming school year.

June 2025

Marc Potolsky, Development and Alumni Relations, New York

Marc is a constant source of support to the University community which I appreciate greatly! He is very supportive of the Student Affairs staff our programs our requests for volunteers and the work we do! If there's a need Marc is there. He recently secured two monetary gifts for the LGBTQA+ Center after directly advocating for the needs of this department and its support of our students. We appreciate you Marc!

Elaine McLaughlin, Payroll, Westchester

Elaine was incredibly helpful when I needed to make a change in UKG. I'm pretty tech savvy but I was worried about doing it correctly as I was still getting used to UKG since I've hadn't had to make any changes for a long time. I was worried I would appear not very tech literate despite doing a lot of tech myself. Elaine patiently walked me through the process even after I read the PDF guide and she didn't make me feel silly for having so many questions.