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Kaela Farrise (co-president)
Kaela Farrise is a member of the class of 2014 at Stanford University. Although she was born and lived a significant amount of time in Oakland, California she has lived in many different areas of California. She has always been active in community service focused on youth empowerment and education as a tutor and youth sports coach. She is also an intern for the Black Student Union and participates in the Ravenswood Reads program on campus. Upon graduation, she hopes to help affect change in education systems on a global scale. She is an avid sports fan, reader and cherishes time spent at home with her family, preferably on the beach.
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Kennan Murphy-Sierra (co-president)
Kennan is a freshman at Stanford University majoring in an unspecified field of engineering (EE/ME/CS/MS&E). He is a musician and has played all types of music including drumline, classical percussion, and rock/funk/jazz drumset. He is also an amateur recreational techno pianist. He is actively involved with music within the Stanford community and is in the process of starting a band with other Stanford freshmen. He enjoys meeting people and talking over |
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Francine Biscocho(senior advisor)
Francine is a Junior studying Economics and Education. She is largely interested in youth development and its psychological, social psychological and economic determinants—specifically among low-income, first generation students of color. After leading her first tour her Freshman year, she has worked as ProMo’s volunteer coordinator and is currently a Co-President with Iberia Elster. She is extremely passionate about the work ProMo does and is excited to work with the organization’s leaders to increase the breadth and depth of ProMo’s impact.
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Bjorn Roach (senior advisor) Bjorn is a senior at Stanford University, and majoring in Atmosphere/Energy Engineering and minoring in Latin American Studies. He studied abroad in Chile for six months, and visited Argentina and Uruguay as well. He is commited to expanding environmental awareness and clean energy worldwide. He loves playing and watching basketball, he is involved in martial arts and Stanford's juggling club, and he plays the piano. He likes all kinds of music, watching comedy like The Office, and helping and meeting new people. |
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Hien Khanh Huynh (volunteer coordinator)
Hien Khanh Huynh is a junior majoring in Biology. Coming from an immigrant family, she still remembers not being able to speak English and wishing very badly she knew how to read. Once she learned how, she wanted to write, and it all snowballed from there. She has always wanted to be a good teacher, but somehow isn't, so she is now doing her best to promote education in other ways. She strongly believes in ProMo's mission to inspire students to go to college and reach great heights. If she had all the time in the world, she would spend it painting, buying dresses, playing raquetball (badly), and hiking in the woods. | | |
Gobakwe Montshiwa (external relation)
Gobakwe or Gk as he is affectionately called, is a sophomore majoring in Science, Technology and Society . He was born and raised in Botswana, and has only been in the USA for 2 and a half years. In addition to being Co-Volunteer Coordinator for Project Motivation, he is also Co-Chair for the Black Student Union's Women's History Month Event. In his free time he likes to run, cycle, play squash ,sketching and chilling. |
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Ubah Jimale Dimbil (external relation)
Ubah Jimale Dimbil was born and raised in the Bay Area. Stanford has been her dream school since as far back as she can recall, and now a year into the school, she still feel the excitement she felt right after getting in. She's going to be majoring in biology and hopefully international relations to go pre-med, while minoring in Arabic and Chemistry. In addition to being the external coordinator intern of Project Motivation, she's involved in the NAACP, Islamic Students at Stanford University, and the Stanford African Association. She's also been working some research work in the biology labs, which has been progressing her desire to go to medical school.
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Ton Subsoontorn (website manager) Ton was born and grew up in Thailand and came to the US in 2003. He did his undergraduate study at Caltech, majoring in biology and computer science. He is currently a graduate student at Stanford bioengineering department with a research focus in synthetic biology. Besides Promo and his graduate student research work, Ton has been an active member of Thai-american intercultural societies (THAIS) and Stanford-Thai exchange program (STEP). In his time, Ton enjoys posting random stuffs on his youtube station. |
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