Outstanding Paraprofessional Award Winners — 2023
Velma Hill Award
Shelvy Young-Abrams — Retired UFT Paraprofessionals Chapter Chair
Shelvy Young-Abrams Award
Reginald Colvin — Retired first vice president of the UFT Paraprofessionals Chapter
Maria Portalatin Award
Evelyn DeJesus — AFT Executive Vice President
Bronx
Mary Moran —East Bronx Academy for the Future
Ruth Prentice-Watson — P.S. 160 The Walt Disney Magnet STEAM School
Brooklyn
Maria Dileo - P.S. 121 Nelson A. Rockefeller
Joy Tonge - I.S. 392 School for the Gifted and Talented
Manhattan
Jessica Huggins — P.S. 185 The Locke School of Arts and Engineering
Synya Polite — A. Philip Randolph High School
Queens
Elsie Narvaez-Alvarado — P.S. 069 The Jackson Heights School
Gladys Heck — I.S. 125 Thom J. McCann Woodside
Staten Island
Vincent Martinelli — I.S. 007 Elias Bernstein
James Riley — R460 Susan E. Wagner High School
District 75
Katia Quiroz — P.S. Q004
Nurun Naher — P.S. 233Q
High Schools
Tracy Abbate — R460 Susan E. Wagner High School
Gerriane DiFrancesca — R460 Susan E. Wagner High School
Humanitarian Award
Marlon Lett — M.S. 128 Mott Hall III