About the PPSP Fellows

Barbara Algieri-Doyle teaches Science at Roxborough High School.

Sarah Byker James teaches developmental and first year reading and writing courses at Community College of Philadelphia. She has been teaching for four years at CCP, and previously taught at Temple University and Rutgers University in Camden for a total of five years. Her interest in secondary and postsecondary alignment stems both from teaching new college students and from prior work advising and developing programming for college access and success non-profits in both Philadelphia and Boston.

Elizabeth Catanese is a Professor of English at Community College of Philadelphia.

Rachael Groner is a Professor of Instruction in English and Director of First Year Writing at Temple University. She has been at Temple since 2004, and has taught a wide range of courses in Composition, American Literature, and Women’s Studies. She is passionate about teaching and enjoys mentoring new TAs in their first semester of teaching at Temple. As a first generation college student herself, she is thrilled to be involved in the PPSP.

Ismael Jimenez teaches African American History at Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School.

Srimati Mukherjee is Professor of English (Teaching Track) at Temple University, where she has been teaching for the last 18 years. She teaches Composition, American Literature, Film Studies, and Women’s Studies. She is committed to the vision and mission of the Philadelphia Education Fund as it promotes alignment of secondary and post-secondary education. She is invested in secondary students arriving on college campuses with skills for arguing their own positions clearly and an ability to engage in deep critical analysis of issues and texts. Mukherjee is the author of Women and Resistance in Contemporary Bengali Cinema: A Freedom Incomplete (Routledge 2016). She has published several essays on film and American literature in refereed anthologies and journals such as The Quarterly Review of Film and Video; Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media; and South Asian History and Culture. Her short fiction has appeared in Feminist Studies, Xavier Review, and most recently in an anthology, Twenty-Two New Asian Short Stories.

Felicia Rosen teaches AP English at Olney Charter High School.

Erin Smith teaches Mathematics and serves as the Special Education Liaison at Kensington Creative and Performing Arts High School.