Julia Piper, University of California at Berkeley, 2010

Chief Executive Officer Julia Piper first joined TTH at UC Berkeley in Spring 2007. She authored three Science in Society Review articles exploring medical bioethics, carbon emission economics, and the psychology of the American environmental movement, before joining the Executive Management Team in Fall 2008 as the Executive Director of Science Policy. She took on the role of Chief Executive Officer in Spring 2009. While finding ways to procrastinate finishing her degree in Molecular and Cell Biology, emphasis in Genetics and Genomics, she founded the Research and Development division of The Dil Se Foundation, a non-profit promoting sustainable development in rural India, and has been the division’s Executive Director for 2 years. She has also served as Editor-in-Chief of The Smart Ass, a political commentary and satire magazine, and sat on the editorial board of the Berkeley Poetry Review. Independent projects have included interdisciplinary curriculum development, bioethics research into neurological effects of human-robot interactions, and the initiation of a formal policy dialogue on new commercial technology. She is conducting her senior thesis in Dr. Lu Chen’s lab at the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, where she has spent the last 4 years playing with Drosophila and researching the molecular mechanism of the Angelman Syndrome protein, Ube3A. Julia hopes to pursue a Ph.D in molecular neurobiology, unless, of course, The Triple Helix wants to offer her a job…

Daniel Choi, University of Chicago, 2010

Chief Operating Officer, North America Daniel M. Choi first joined The Triple Helix in 2006 as a writer for The Science in Society Review.  Since then, he has taken on the position of Science Policy Director for the University of Chicago chapter and also serves as the COO of North America on the Executive Management Team. His research interests lie generally around complexity studies, particularly from a thermodynamics and network theory point of view, and makes many valiant (and sometimes not-so-serious) attempts to extend these heuristics to many fields, from condensed matter physics to crowd surfing.  His “TTH”-related interests include intellectual property, sociological and anthropological structures of science, the epistemology and phenomenology of science, and the organization of knowledge.  He hopes dearly that these interests will get him into a physics doctorate program, as he is crossing his fingers for graduating with a BA in Physics in 2010.

Zain Pasha, Cornell University, 2011

Executive Director, Electronic Publication Zain Pasha is a junior at Cornell University, a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar (as well as Vice President of Operations), a Cornell Irwin and Joan Jacobs Scholar and a member of Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society. He founded the electronic publication division of The Triple Helix Inc (and the Triple Helix Online), first at the Cornell Chapter, then internationally as the Executive Editor in Chief, E-publishing. Zain now directs the entire electronic publishing operation for the organization across all chapters and directs (and implements) all web design and web marketing for the Triple Helix Online.  When not working for The Triple Helix, Zain spends his time debating as Vice President of the nationally 5^th ranked Cornell varsity debate team, researching (currently) nuclear weapons proliferation and international political economy, coaching high school debate, and working out. Zain’s research has been featured in The Research Paper, Cornell’s premiere magazine for undergraduate research, and he is currently working on two papers that will be published later this year.  One of his papers looks at the use of torture by the U.S. and systematically determines whether it is in the U.S. national interest.  His other paper, which he is co-authoring with one of his professors, looks at the domestic distributional effects of credible military threats and their impact a state’s decision to develop nuclear weapons. Zain is also a syndicated writer for The Bleacher Report, the nation’s number one online print source for sports news and a writer for Georgetown University’s policy blog Global Solver. Outside of academia, Zain has spent several years working in the private sector as a software engineering intern and as a Deloitte Sophomore Summer Scholar.  Zain will return to Deloitte this summer.

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Jennifer Yang, University of California Berkeley, 2010

Executive Director of Internal Affairs Jennifer Yang was the former Chapter Production Head for TTH at UC Berkeley, and has served as the Executive Director of Internal Affairs for TTH International since summer 2009. Most recently, she directed the planning committee for The Triple Helix Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA in February 2010, bringing together TTH leaders and writers from multiple chapters. Outside of TTH and school, Jennifer is on the Advisory Board as the Recruitment and Training adviser for Team HBV Collegiate, an outreach sector of the Jade Ribbon Campaign that promotes global Hepatitis B awareness and education. She is also a writing tutor at the Academic Services Center in Berkeley and works as a Sr. Center Supervisor at the Recreational Sports Facility. She has a soft spot for Romantic poetry, guitar playing and amazing pastries. If time permits, she would love to dabble more into business marketing and graphic design, and perhaps conduct research on neurodegenerative diseases and neurogenesis. Jennifer is graduating in 2010 with a B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology, emphasis in Neurobiology and a minor in English.

Karen Hong, Johns Hopkins University, 2011

Executive Director of Science Policy Karen Hong is a junior at Johns Hopkins University, majoring in Public Health Studies. She has been with the Triple Helix since her freshman year. She was a writer until sophomore year, when Julia Piper asked if she would be interested in the EMT Science Policy position. As a strong advocate of examining the relationship between advances in science and their real-world applications, she accepted. Karen is also the president of CRASH (Creating Responsibility in Adolescent Sexual Health), which is a volunteer group that raises teen awareness about sexual health. CRASH is also a leader in creating innovative and effective reproductive health education curricula. Her independent research, sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship, also focuses on sexual health education. It is a cross-cultural examination of adolescent sexual health education in China and the United States. Read her research blog at http://karenswoodrowwilson.blogspot.com/atom.xml. Karen hopes to nurture chapter collaborations, and work with chapters to develop sustainable Science Policy Divisions throughout the world.

Nandita Seshadri, Northwestern University, 2011

Chief Technical Officer Nandita Seshadri is a Junior at Northwestern University. She is the founding member and Chapter Co-President of the Northwestern University chapter of The Triple Helix. This past year she was brought on as the Chief Technical Officer for The Triple Helix, Inc. Aside from the Triple Helix, Nandita is involved with two research positions on campus involving linguistic choices in visual environments, and cognitive dissonance. She is also active in the student film community on campus. Nandita is recently trying her hand as an independent digital artist and filmmaker, and is currently completing both an animated short and a 5-minute experimental short, which she wrote, directed, and DPed. Nandita has also served on the editing board of The Northwestern University Journal of International Affairs, and has previously written for North by Nothwestern, an award-winning new media publication. In her free time, she competes with Northwestern’s club Equestrian team and watches X-men cartoons from the 90′s.

Kevin Nay Yaung, National University of Singapore, 2010

Chief Operating Officer, Asia Kevin Nay Yaung is graduating with a Bachelor of Engineering in 2010. Kevin was previously the President for TTH at NUS and has served as the Chief Operation Officer for Asia since summer 2008. He is also the longest serving member in the Executive Management Team in TTH. He has helped start the TTH chapter at NUS and has done editing for some of the articles of TTH. Moreover, he has also been a writer with TTH NUS since its inception in Fall 2006. Outside of TTH, he has founded an Institute of Engineering and Technology student chapter in Singapore. Moreover, he is the co-founder of an international social entreprise called World Education Group which is a platform that brings together renowned speakers to raise funds for educational causes in developing countries. He is co-founder of an educational consulting group and has been involved with many educational publications, tapping on his years of experience as an independent educator and academic coach.Kevin has research interests in Clean Energy and Nanotechnology. He has spent a few semesters in Solar Energy projects and related research areas. He would like to extend his research interests to ensuring global energy sustainability. He believes in serving both science and education in society.

Chikaodili Okaneme, Cornell University, 2011

Executive Production Editor Chikaodili (“Chika”) Okaneme is currently a junior at Cornell University, College of Arts and Sciences. She is pursuing a double major in Biology & Society and Science &Technology Studies, while working to double minor in Communications and Law & Society. She has been involved with TTH since her sophomore year and is now an Executive Production Editor, a Literary Editor and a Writer. Outside of TTH, Chika is a Meinig Family Cornell National Scholar who partakes in leadership opportunities to better service the Cornell community and beyond. When off campus, she enjoys going back home to the Bronx to spend time with her family and with her old high school buddies. After graduation, she hopes to one day earn an MBA in Management and/or Entrepreneurship, and then go into some field of the science industry.

Yang Zhang, Cornell University, 2011

Executive Production Editor Yang Zhang has been working as a member of The Triple Helix’s global production team since 2007. Having enjoyed the layout and production experience for her high school newspaper, she was excited to find an inviting niche in TTH in the first semester of freshman year and stayed with the production team ever since. Recently, she became one of the two TTH executive production editors. A biology major concentrating in neurobiology, she enjoys music, movies, and tennis.

Bharat Kilaru, University of Chicago, 2011

Executive Editor in Chief, Literary Bharat Kilaru first joined The Triple Helix in Fall 2007 as a writer and associate editor for the Science in Society Review. As a member of the University of Chicago TTH, he worked as a Managing Editor and then took on the role of Editor-in-Chief. Following successful work as EiC, he began work in Fall 2008 as a Senior Literary Editor and part of the International Editorial Board. In Spring 2008, he took on the role of Executive Editor-in-Chief and part of the Executive Management Team. His efforts have been towards the reconstruction of the international literary cycle and redesign of the literary style. His research interests lie in neuroimmunology, specifically the molecular mechanisms underlying multiple sclerosis. He plans to graduate from the University of Chicago with a BA in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Immunology.