OUR TEAM
Founders
Team Directors
Rohit Parthasarathy
Undergraduate Director
Rohit is in his fourth year of Medicine at UNSW. He spent most of his childhood staring at the sky before later realising his love for (almost) all things medicine.
Stephanie Moon
High School Director
Stephanie is a medical student at the University of Sydney with a background in neuroscience and psychology. In her down time, she likes to settle down for either a crime thriller or kids’ animation movie with a coffee/beer/wine in one hand and her pug in the other.
Jade Pham
Co-Founder
Jade is a medical student, researcher, and hobbyist photographer, but she prides herself most on her innovation and drive for change. Inspired by growing conversation, YNA was developed as a ‘passion project’, while also being an excuse to be openly nerdy about all things neuroscience. If you don’t find her engaging in muay thai, grappling, running, bouldering, archery, or any other bizarre sport, Jade is writing by the harbour, watching a film, or studying a language.
Onur Tanglay
Co-Founder
Onur is a medicine student with a passion for improving accessibility to opportunities in STEM by redefining traditional education. Fuelled by a copious amount of caffeine, he dedicates the rest of his time to research into neurodegenerative disease and connectomics, and if he finds time away from hopelessly tackling to-do lists, enjoys photography, film, travel, reading and baking.
Human Resources
Amber Sawyer
Human Resources Officer
Amber is a third year Medical Science student majoring in Neurobiology at UNSW. If she is not studying, you can probably find her walking her pug, baking, reading crime thrillers or drinking too much tea!
Victor Soong
Human Resources Officer
Victor is a fourth year MBBS student at UTas, with a particular interest in Paediatrics and Emergency Medicine. In his spare time, he enjoys skateboarding and is always on the hunt for new albums to listen to!
Undergraduate Team
Sheena Mali
Resources Coordinator
Sheena is a third year student at USYD studying Nanotechnology with majors in chemistry and applied medical science. She enjoys learning new languages, taking long contemplative walks around her neighbourhood and spending time with her plants (she's particularly proud of her Woolies discovery garden)!
Resources Officers
Lachlan Qin
Jack Zhang
Sonia Mathews
Jagath Narayan
Alex Gao
Yamema Esber
Events Coordinator
Yamema is a fourth year medical student at UNSW, and is passionate about refugee and asylum seeker health and reading, particularly historical fiction. She loves being outdoors and eating virtually anything (though icecream holds a special place in her heart)!
Event Officers
Victor Bian
Leyla Barry
Rainbow Wu
Maye Zheng
Marketing Coordinator
Maye is currently a fourth year medical student at UNSW with an interest in paediatrics. She’s a massive foodie but when she’s not eating her body weight in dessert, she loves playing the piano, going for afternoon runs at sunset, and playing badminton.
Marketing Officers
Lily Shafiani
Denise Lin
Nathan Ung
High School Team
Outreach and Logistics
Emily Wu
Leyla Barry
Shruthi Annamalai
Research and Development
Anusha Pillai
Layla Kirkland
Marketing
Bonnie Zhu
Carol Newman
Sabrina Fu
Sarah Chong
Blog Team
Jenny Wei
Blog Editor
Jenny is a fourth year medical student at UNSW. She is fascinated by the social and personal impacts of healthcare, with an interest in neurological conditions, public health, and health literacy. In her spare time, she enjoys art, music and plotting future cat adoption!
Nikki Huang
Blog Editor
Nikki is in her second year of Psychology and Neuroscience at UNSW. She is particularly interested in research on emotions and learning, in order to develop strategies to increase wellbeing. In her spare time, she enjoys yoga, ballet and playing the piano.
Blog Writers
Nikola Vekic
Kirra Terranova
Chloe Dunne
Emiliana Tonini
Jing Zhang
Bianca Setionago
Michael Vamiadakis
Charlie Redhead
