2023 SSEA Staff
2023 SSEA Staff
2023 SSEA Staff
Professional Staff

Jamillah McDaniel Ph.D. (she/her)
Position: Senior Director, Equity & Inclusion Initiatives
Hometown: Oakland, CA

Karolina Reyes (she/her)
Position: Associate Director, Undergraduate Communities
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Gaby Velazquez (she/her)
Position: Associate Director, Graduate Communities
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA

Luz M. Jiménez Ruvalcaba Ph.D. (she/her)
Position: Associate Director, Graduate Outreach and Recruitment
Hometown: Inglewood, CA

Jackie Hernandez (she/her)
Position: Office and Programs Administrator
Hometown: San Diego, CA

Martha Schmidhauser (she/her)
Position: Accounting Associate
Hometown: Iowa City, IA
Resident Fellows (RFs)
Current Stanford graduate students are responsible for the residential well-being of the SSEA program.

Angel Rivera (she/her)
Degree: PhD in Education
Fun Fact: I have an eight month old black kitten (who would love to meet you all! <3)
Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Resident Assistants (RAs)
Current Stanford undergraduate students are responsible for the residential well-being of the SSEA program.

Alana Esposito (she/her)
Major: Individually Designed Major in Engineering (MS&E + CS)
Fun fact: I've been vegan for five years!
Hometown: Huntersville, North Carolina

Alexi Lindeman (she/her)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Fun fact: I built a coop to adopt six rescue chickens.
Hometown: Antioch, CA

Ashley Martinez (she/her)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Fun fact: I was a tour guide for a zinc and fluorescent mine. I also, unfortunately, hosted someone over winter break (guess who?).
Hometown: Morristown, New Jersey

Frances Raphael (he/him)
Major: Electrical Engineering
Fun fact: I won the Intramurals championship for soccer this past summer!
Hometown: Hyattsville, Maryland

Isaias Martinez (he/him)
Major: Bioengineering
Fun fact: I've played soccer for 13 years starting when I was five years old. Although I don't play much now, I still watch it often with my favorite team being FC Barcelona.
Hometown: Rosemead, California

John Felix (he/his)
Major: Bioengineering
Fun fact: I can't ride a bike
Hometown: Porterville, CA

Juan Bautista Romaniuk (Bauti) (He/Him)
Major: Civil Engineering and Architectural Design
Fun fact: I spent the last winter break with a friend I met at SSEA!
Hometown: Mendoza, Argentina

Kenny Hernandez (he/him)
Major: Chemical Engineering
Fun fact: One of my goals before I graduate is to run a marathon!
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland

Magaly Aviles (she/her)
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Fun fact: During the school year, in my room I had 15 plushies in total!!!
Hometown: South Gate, CA

Milo Golding (he/him)
Major: Bioengineering
Fun fact: I’ve been told that I look taller in person than how I look in pictures. I guess I’m keeping people on their toes.
Hometown: Lexington, KY

Omar Ramos Escoto (he/him)
Major: Computer Science and Mechanical Engineering (co-term)
Fun fact: I was born on my mom's birthday!
Hometown: San Salvador, El Salvador

Sufi Javed (he/him)
Major: Material Science and Engineering
Fun fact: During fall quarter of my freshmen year, I switched majors every week. I went from Bio Engineering to Chemical Engineering to Civil and Environmental Engineering to Biomechanical Engineering to Civil and Environmental Engineering again to Material Science and Engineering. Quite the journey I suppose.
Hometown: Brooklyn, New York