Student Spotlight: Dawn Penson
Dawn Penson will represent the students on OCC’s Board of Trustees during the 2019-20 academic year. As the Student Trustee she will attend monthly meetings and participate in all votes. Penson is a 41-year-old mother of three with a perfect 4.0 grade point average in the Human Services major. She is also blind. “I have experience being on the board for Arise, the National Federation of the Blind Syracuse chapter and all of the other advocacies I am involved with.