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Donna Vanasse joins PWE!

PWE is happy to welcome Donna Vanasse as our new Grants and Contracts Coordinator and Office Manager! Donna has over 26 years of experience working at UMass Amherst. She is very fond of Excel spreadsheets and working with the financial systems used on campus. She has been an officer of the University Staff Association since 2016 and currently serves as treasurer for the union. Donna has...

Jacob Carter Succeeds Joe Connolly as PWE Director

Jacob Carter has been named director of The Partnership for Worker Education (PWE) at UMass Amherst. Carter, who previously served as assistant director and recently earned his doctorate from the College of Education, succeeds Joe Connolly, who co-founded the partnership and served as its director for nearly 36 years. Housed within the Office of Human Resources, PWE develops partnerships with...

PWE Welcomes Francis Lo!

We are so pleased to welcome Francis Lo (they/them) as our new Grants and Contracts Coordinator and Office Manager. Francis began at PWE in November 2022 and has over a decade of experience working in higher education, most recently spending the last three years as the Program Coordinator for the English MFA for Poets and Writers at UMass. An alum of Emerson College and  Mills...

PWE Welcomes Midori Tabery!

The Partnership for Worker Education (PWE) is pleased to welcome new staff member Midori Tabery as the new outreach coordinator and workplace English instructor. Tabery has over two decades of experience teaching ESL in a variety of settings including 20 years as the ESOL Department Head at Eaglebrook School and as a volunteer at the Center for New Americans. A UMass alumna,...

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