Members and Alumni

Active Members (Year started role in parenthesis)

Committee Representatives and core member roles

  • Grad Affairs committee: Xochitl Luna (2024)
  • Education Committee: Junior Okoroafor (2024), Thomas Clark (2025)
  • Admissions Committee: Sydney Campbell (2025)
  • Seminar Committee: Aadi Prasad (2025) 
  • International Student Rep: Sara Tavana (2024)
  • Social Chair: Alex Bardon (2023)
  • Social Committee Members: Nikasha Patel (2024), Aadi Prasad (2024), Preston Hess (2024), Evan Ruesch (2025)
  • Scribe: ___________________
  • Treasurer: ________________
  • Electronic Resource Manager: Flossie Wan (2024)
  • Admin: _________________
  • Coordinator: Gregg Heller (2023)
  • Manager: Gregg Heller (2023)

Cohort Representatives:

  • Y1: _______
  • Y2: Aadi Prasad (2024), Sydney Campbell (2024)
  • Y3: Nikasha Patel (2024), Junior Okoroafor (2024), Sara Tavana (2024)
  • Y4: Xochitl Luna (2023)
  • Y5: Gregg Heller (2022), Thomas Clark (2024)

Subject Area Representatives

  • Cognitive: Thomas Clark (2024), Junior Okoroafor (2024)
  • Computational: Aadi Prasad (2024), Nikasha Patel (2024)
  • Cellular and Molecular: Xochitl Luna (2023), Kanique Thomas (2024), Sydney Campbell (2024)
  • Systems: Gregg Heller (2022),

Group Representatives and Organizers

  • Union Representative: Tony Chen (2024)
  • MIT Grad Student Council [GSC]: Kanique Thomas (2024), Sydney Campbell (2025)
  • BCS ReproduceabiliTEA: Alicia Chen (2025)
  • Application assistance program: Candy Kang, Julia Dziubek (2022), Karla Montejo, Camille Mitchell
    • *** AAP is only historically affiliated with gradvocates although gradvocates sometimes helps with organization and some funding
  • Refs: Sadie Zacharek,Gabriela Rasch (2023), Bryan Medina (2023), Mitchell Ostrow (2023), Amanda Fath (2023)
    • *** Gradvocates meet with refs to get their opnions, but REFs do not attend regular meetings with the Grad officer or share any details about what may have informed said opinions. REFs are very careful to maintain confidentiality and independance from the grad officer and department leadership. 
  • Computational Tutorial: Sol Markman (2025), Ajani Stewart (2025)
    • *** Computational is only historically affiliated with gradvocates

Historic roles in need of revival

Alumni/Past roles (Years served in parenthesis)(may still be active in a different role)

Greta Tuckute: Computational Tutorial (2021-2024)

Fernanda de La Torre Romo: Computational Tutorial (2021-2024)

Nikasha Patel: union rep (2023-2024)

ReproduceabiliTEA: Djuna von Maydell (2023-2025)

Mila Halgren: MIT Grad Student Council [GSC] (2024-2025)

Yudi Xie: Seminar Committee (2022-2025) 

Margaret Schroeder: Grad affairs committee rep (2022-2024), BCS ReproduceabiliTEA (2023-2024)

Aida Piccato: Teaching development fellow and ed committee representative (2023-2024)

Julia Dziubek: GSC DEI committee (2023-2024), Admissions committee (2024), cohort rep (2022-2024)

Gregg Heller: Admissions Committee Rep (2022-2024)

Quilee Simeon: Computational representative (2022-2023)

Sihan Chen: Union Rep (2022-2023)

Victoria Beja-Glasser: (2018-2023)

Leyla Anne Akay : Teaching development fellow and Ed committee rep (2022-2023)

Daniel Montgomery: Educational Studies program (? – 2023)

Gal Raz: BCS Ref (? – 2023)

Djuna: BCS Ref (? – 2023)

Katya Tsimaring: BCS Ref (? – 2023)

Josefina:  BCS Ref (? – 2023)

Micheal Happ (? – 2023)

Joyce Wang: (? – 2022)

Junyi Chi: Grad affairs committee (? – 2022)

Jungsoo Kim: (? – 2022)

Anna Ivanova (? – 2022)

Peng Quian: Seminar Committee (? – 2022)

Elizabeth Ann Brija: Grad Women at MIT (? – 2021)

Danielle Cosio

Lupe Cruz: GSC DEI comittee (? – 2021), LGBT Grad (? – 2021)

Halie Olson

Audrey Effenberger