The team
Meet our team
TalijaCo-Founder
While Talija wants to pursue a career in biotech, in high school, she spent most of her time baking! She was a vendor at her local farmers market and owned a certified home bakery. As a mentor, she can provide guidance on both STEM and turning fun hobbies into valuable passion projects.
SiyaCo-Founder
As someone from a smaller suburb, Siya focused on local engagement and maximizing opportunities in her areas of interest - public policy and law. Bringing together her interests in civics, social campaigns, and culture, Siya can provide mentorship in the social sciences and pre-law tracks, as well as blending interdisciplinary interests to build compelling narratives.
Giselle
Giselle is a history major on a pre-law track with an interest in public policy. In high school, she competed in Mock Trial, Model UN, and interned for a member of Congress. On campus, Giselle is a news writer with The Daily Princetonian, where she covers town politics, and is part of University Student Government (USG). She also enjoys giving campus tours to prospective students and their families.
Loc
Loc, his high school's valedictorian, was also the captain of the Academic Decathlon Team and a member of varsity cross country and track and field. Now at Princeton, he is the co-founder and Vice President of Princeton Quantitative Traders and an active member of the powerlifting team.
Charles
In high school, Charles won first place at the US Debate National Championship in Policy. Now he studies ECE at Princeton and is the founder of a YC startup, Conifer, that does least-cost routing between different AI models.
Gavin
Gavin is a junior at Princeton studying quantitative economics, linguistics, and finance. Outside of class, Gavin is the student manager of the basketball team, an active member of Princeton's Center for Jewish Life, and a marathon runner. His freshman year, he also won $45,000 on the Price is Right!
Will
Will is a student with interests spanning design and business. In high school, he played varsity soccer and served as captain of the speech team, and he led his school's architecture club. He is currently studying economics at Princeton University, alongside a minor in architecture, and completed an internship at an architectural firm in Barcelona this past summer. In his free time, he enjoys endurance running, painting, drawing and sketching, Lego building, and lifting.
Tom
Tom was awarded the highly selective Gates Scholarship in high school, allowing him to intern at Amazon as a software engineer when he was just a college freshman. Now he is an active member of the Princeton Electric Speedboating club, where he helped the team break the world speed record for electric boats at 114 mph. In his free time, he also enjoys bird watching, stand-up comedy, and knitting.
Jon
In high school, Jon spent a lot of his time involved in environmental advocacy and stewardship. He started a hydroponic gardening program at his school and was a co-chair of Delaware's Youth Environmental Summit. Outside of that, he loves to run, learn new languages, attend music festivals, play video games, and spend time with family and friends. At Princeton, he has chosen to study computer science, eager to discover how technological innovation intersects with other passions, like policy and environmentalism. He can offer guidance in transferring your passions into real community impact and bridging intersections of different passions!