Aleah Gatto

Manager, Membership Engagement

Aleah Gatto is the membership engagement manager at PEN America, where she tracks retention of program participation and carries out projects that build capacity for the organization.

Previously, Gatto served as an AmeriCorps Member at the Community Technology Empowerment Project in Minnesota, where she worked to bridge the digital divide by teaching digital literacy workshops and maintaining programs that promote digital equity.

A Phi Beta Kappa scholar, Gatto graduated from The University of Vermont in 2019, earning a double degree in Italian studies and English. Gatto has always been committed to public service and sees PEN America as a means of piloting a career in social justice.

Articles by Aleah Gatto

Writing as Craft

Thursday June 27

Dalal Mawad | The PEN Ten Interview

This book is a collection of first-hand experiences of women who survived the devastating Beirut port explosion on August 4th, 2020.

Writing as Craft

Thursday June 20

Marcela Fuentes | The PEN Ten Interview

For Pilar, her anxieties and insecurities solidify into this belief that she has been cursed. She accepts it as true, and it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts.

Membership Organizational

Thursday December 21

A Year of Books By PEN America Members

We’re so proud of our members, who have published 40+ works in 2023, most of which are available to purchase on Bookshop.