Monthly YES Recognition Winners

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New York City - February

Christina Heredia, ResLife Administration NYC, Staff, NYC

Sharne Diilard-Parrish, ResLife Administration NYC, Staff, NYC

Throughout the year the RD team consistently demonstrated the Pace values by remaining accessible respectful and professional in their work with students and colleagues. They often go above and beyond their assigned responsibilities to ensure students felt supported and valued. Despite ongoing challenges the RD team remained resilient dependable and student-centered. Thank you for saying yes to this work to one another and to our students.

Westchester - February

Mary Ann Errante, University Special Events - New York, Staff, Pleasantville

Jimmy Luckman, Student Affairs, Staff, NYC

Mary Ann continues to go above and beyond to make sure that the LGBTQA Center has space for student events. Mary Ann has spent a considerable amount of time and energy to ensure that students had space for rehearsals for Hellbound West a student organized play. Mary Ann was quick to make accommodation and communicated effectively throughout the entire process. I am so thankful for her continued support and how easy she has made space reservation even though I know it is difficult.

Yes I Make It Happen Monthly Nominees

All Employees recognized in the month of February 2026 (PDF)

Previous University–Wide Monthly YES Winners

January 2026

Laurie Resnick, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Psychological Services Ctr, Faculty, NYC

Thank you so very much for sharing your passion and expertise at today's First Annual Virtual Wellness Summit!! The feedback we have received already from attendees has been incredibly positive and it's thanks to presenters like YOU who made it the huge success that it was!!! I'm so grateful to you!!!

Poonam Doshi, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences Psychology, Faculty, Pleasantville

Poonam is among the kindest most positive colleagues I've ever had the pleasure of working with! Even when receiving not-so-great news she responds with such positivity warmth and magnanimity which is virtually unheard of!! It's almost to the point where I find excuses to write to her just to receive her responses!!! - Thank you Poonam for truly embodying ALL of the YES award attributes and then going well above and beyond them!!! The world needs more Poonams!

December 2025

Dinesh Ulpange, Enrollment Operations and Tech, NYC

Thank you for helping the Honors College staff this semester! We cannot do what we do for our students without you. Happy holidays and enjoy your break!

Barbara McCarthy, Office of the Registrar, Pleasantville

Thank you for helping the Honors College staff this semester! We cannot do what we do for our students without you. Happy holidays and enjoy your break!

November 2025

Gisela Tirado Tewes, Marketing & Communications, NYC

Thank you Gisela for all your help with managing and updating the Social Justice Week website. I appreciate your flexibility with the myriad of changes that we had and your quick attention to them. Your responsiveness ensured that our communications remained clear and accessible supporting the entire planning team and enhancing the event experience for all participants.

Jessica Sofia, Office of the Dean CHP Pleasantville, Pleasantville

We are happy to nominate Jessica for her incredible support on the budget and contract pieces of our Macy Grant. Jessica has been consistently professional diligent and wonderfully detail-oriented keeping everything on track and making a complicated process feel manageable. Jessica's timeliness reliability and steady guidance have truly made a difference for our whole team. We are so grateful for Jessica's expertise and the positive energy she brings to this work

October 2025

Gwen Conneally, Financial Aid Counselor, New York

Thank you Gwen for being the Note Taker for our All Financial Aid Staff Debrief for your group. You did an excellent job! We are lucky to have you on our team. You Made it Happen for our Debrief and I thank you!

Kris Abbe, Talent Development Manager, Pleasantville

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!

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!