Meet the 2022 Team!
Sophia Wu
Pronouns: she/her
Graduation year: 2025
Major: Not sure yet...Classics, Ecology?
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Things I do for fun: Running and swimming but not very speedy in either, reading, doodling, eating.
Fun fact about me: I was lucky enough to see a wild snow leopard a few summers ago!
Parth Sarin
Pronouns: they/he
Graduation year: 2022 (kinda? idk? I still have more quarters)
Major: Math & Public Policy
Hometown: College Station, TX
Things I do for fun: Making crosswords, social dance, going for walks on campus, baking
Fun fact about me: I once memorized all US telephone area codes and where they were from... but now my phone does that automatically
Joel Kiernan
Pronouns: He/him
Graduation year: 2024
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Hometown: Green Bay, Wisconsin
Things I do for fun: baking bread, climbing, playing bass in the Stanford Jazz Orchestra, building rockets with the Stanford Space Initiative, stargazing
Fun fact about me: I spent six months in a Chinese high school in Beijing, China on a gap year
Katherine Zhang
Pronouns: she/her
Graduation year: 2023
Major: Earth Systems, Sustainable Food and Agriculture track + minor in Art Practice
Hometown: Princeton, NJ
Things I do for fun: cooking and eating and taking pictures of my food, digital animation, plein air painting, dance, collecting rocks and minerals
Fun fact about me: I was once the subject in a NASA study
Timothy Karoff
Pronouns: he/him
Graduation year: 2023
Major: English
Hometown: Milton, MA
Things I do for fun: fermenting, synthesizers, rollerskating, vegetarian cooking
Fun fact about me: I have a blue birthmark above my eye
Aja Burslem
Pronouns: she/they
Graduation year: 2025
Major: Urban Studies, double minor in Education and Interdisciplinary Art
Hometown: Culver City, CA
Things I do for fun: Playing beach volleyball, camping, writing about feminist art, baking, blasting Spotify playlists, wearing Birks with socks
Fun fact about me: I was a preschool teacher for two years!
Vincent Xia
Pronouns: he/him
Graduation year: 2022, going to medical school in Philadelphia next year!
Major: Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering
Hometown: North Carolina’s “Triangle” region!
Things I do for fun: distance running, swimming, hiking, playing tennis, and eating good food!
Fun fact about me: I’ve taught summer camps on environmental science for elementary schoolers before!!