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The media relations team serves as the primary contact for all media inquiries for the Philadelphia and Newtown campus locations. The team collects and shares Holy Family University news with the press and gathers information about the University community.

The press is encouraged to contact the media relations team to interview faculty experts in a variety of fields.

For general media inquiries, please contact communications@storesoo.com.

For Athletics media inquiries, please contact Zachary Durham, sports information director, at 267-341-3482 or zdurham@storesoo.com.

Media Contact

Michael Monostra

Communications Manager

Marian Hall

Holy Family University

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First-Generation Graduate Kaitlyn Cross Earns Validation as Holy Family University’s Class of 2024 Valedictorian

If you happened to be in the working-class, safe-haven Northeast Philadelphia neighborhood of Bridesburg on April 25, 2024, you might have heard the shouts of sheer delight bellowing from Kaitlyn Cross’s house.  The community is close-quartered and close-knit, adept at deciphering an exclamation of excitement from one of distress, so the commotion beckoned more anticipation than panic.  Cross, a Holy Family University senior and first-generation college student, had just received notification that she had earned the title of valedictorian for the Class of 2024. She is the first valedictorian ever formally recognized at the school. There was no containing her joy.

Holy Family University Hosts Inaugural Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society Induction

Holy Family University’s English program proudly inducted nine students into the Sigma Tau Delta Honor Society during its inaugural ceremony on April 29. The significant event also marked the establishment of the Alpha Omega Pi chapter at Holy Family, representing one of the first new chapters inaugurated in the honor society’s second millennium.

Holy Family University Community Comes Together to “Take Back the Night “

Holy Family University continued the world’s oldest tradition of standing against sexual violence on college campuses when it hosted Take Back the Night (TBTN), a free event on April 25. The TBTN movement dates back to the 1970s when Florida State University first organized a march to bring awareness to the issue.

The Massive Educational Impact of Massa-Bu Tulay M’24

The 3,4 and 5-year-old students in Massa-Bu Tulay’s Lower Southampton Early Childhood Learning Center Head Start class - the federally-funded program that provides education, health and social service to low-income families - have hit the teacher lottery.