Our Team

Organization Officers

President: Ashley Ippolito, an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz pursuing a B.A in Linguistics, a B.S in Cognitive Science, and a Minor in Education. Ashley is a research assistant in the Syntax, Semantics, and Language Processing lab at UC Santa Cruz. She is interested in looking at the psychological basis of child language development and pyscholinguistics.

Vice President: Ariella Angelini-Stewart, an undergraduate at UCSC studying Neuroscience and Chemistry (focus: Biochem). She works in the Chen Lab researching the role of Fezf2 in the development and differentiation of adult neural stem cells. After UCSC, she plans to obtain a masters in the U.K. in biochemistry and then earn her M.D.

Secretary:

Technology and Information Specialist:

We would not be successful without the support of our Graduate Student Team:

Talia Waltzer: is a 5th-year PhD candidate in the psychology department at UCSC, currently studying moral decision-making in everyday situations. Talia is passionate about making research accessible and beneficial for everyone.

Charles Baxley: is a second year PhD student in the psychology department. Charles is generally interested in how people, especially those in underrepresented groups, interact with situations involving morality, and how this interaction develops over the lifespan.

Bethany Johnson: is a third-year PhD student in Applied Mathematics at UCSC. She develops quantitative methods that can be used to predict population dynamics of ecological species and strives to make a positive impact in ecological conservation and management.

General Members of 2020-2021

We are incredibly fortunate to have an amazing team.

  • Ashley Ippolito

  • Ariella Angelini-Stewart

  • Arushi Pandley: a first-year student majoring in MCD Bio. She has a passion for research developments in healthcare, specifically in the biotech sector that services patients and has explored her interest by interning at various startups in the Bay Area as well as conducting immunology research at Stanford. She loves to hike in SF, knit sweaters, and listen to podcasts in her free time.

  • Mateo Etcheveste: a rising junior studying biomolecular engineering. I plan on researching genetics and/or stem cells with applications in medicine, biotechnology, and neuroscience


Past Alumni: Malia Starita, Nalanda Lamb, Oscar Ramirez-Perez, Max Wechsler-Azen, Ashley Leon, Rhea Modi