Team

Here are all of the awesome people that make Teach LA happen! We're UCLA students who have dedicated themselves to empowering students through computer science.

General Board

Our directors, school leads, and curriculum leads. Feel free to reach out to any of our board for more information about what we do!

Our dev consists of our team, training, learning lab, editor, design, and static site directors. Feel free to reach out to any of our board for more information about what we do!

Instructors and Developers

Our team of instructors and developers teach in person at schools all throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District while developing new, interactive ways of making an education in computer science possible for everyone. Want to join our team? Find out more about how you can join us on our join us page!

Previous Boards

Rome wasn't built in a day, and neither was Teach LA! Many thanks to our previous boards for steering our organization in the right direction.

2016-2017

Alejandra Cervantes (2019): Director of Pedagogy

Apurva Panse (2018): Director of Outreach

Enrique Segura (2017): Instructor

John Stucky (2019): Instructor

Michael Wang (2018): Instructor

2017-2018

Apurva Panse (2018): President and Outreach Director

John Stucky (2019): Head Instructor

Krishna Babu (2018): Logistics Director

Richard Wen (2019): Curriculum Director

2018-2019

Bonnie Lee (2021): Expansion Director

Christina Indudhara (2020): Curriculum Director

Connor Borden (2019): Dev Team Director

Furn Techalertumpai (2020): Logistics Director

John Stucky (2019): President

Michael Grieve (2019): Curriculum Director, Lead Instructor

Richard Wen (2019): President and Outreach Director

2019-2020

Arjun Subramonian (2021): Logistics Director, NHHS Lead

Bonnie Lee (2021): Outreach Director

Christina Indudhara (2020): President

Malak Hmimy (2021): Activities Director, Sepulveda Lead

Matthew Wang (2022): Dev Team Director

Pragathi Venkatesh (2022): Brockton Lead

Shane Cho (2021): Activities Director, Emerson Lead

Sharvani Jha (2021): NHHS Lead

2020-2021

Arjun Subramonian (2021): Advisor, AI/ML Lead

Ashley Ghodsian (2022): JEDI, Python Instructor, Translator

Bonnie Lee (2021): Advisor

Chase Kapler (2023): React Native School Lead

Chloe Uy (2022): Outreach Director, Interim Emerson Lead

Helia Woo (2023): JEDI, Python Video Lead

Kaitlyn Wang (2022): Special Events Director

Keertana Namuduri (2022): Advisor

Leo Krashanoff (2022): Dev Team Director

Malak Hmimy (2021): Sepulveda Lead, Advisor

Matthew Wang (2022): President, Interim Dev Team Director

Nikhil Kumar (2022): Curriculum Director, Python Lead

Nina Lu (2022): Special Events Director

Regina Wang (2022): Special Events Director, Dev Project Lead

Sharvani Jha (2021): Moonshots Advisor

Sophie Schoenmeyer (2023): Logistics Director

2021-2022

Advaith Gowrishetty (): Special Events Director

Archie Datta (2024): Design Director

Ava Asmani (2024): AI/ML School Lead

Chase Kapler (2023): React Native School Lead

Chloe Uy (2022): Vice President

Christine Kim (2024): JEDI Director

Divya Ponniah (2023): Dev Team Director

Eden Yu (2024): Special Events Director, Scratch School Lead

Ellie Cheng (2022): Dev Team Training Director

Helia Woo (2023): Python Video Lead

Ishani Sarkar (): Outreach Director

Jiin Kim (2024): Learning Labs Director

Kaitlyn Wang (2022): Special Events Director

Matthew Nieva (): Dev Team Training Director

Matthew Wang (2022): Advisor

Milo Kearney (2023): President

Nikhil Kumar (2022): Curriculum Director, Social Chair, Emerson Friday School Lead

Nina Lu (2022): Special Events Director

Regina Wang (2022): Dev Team Training Director

Robert Tran (2023): School Lead

Sophie Schoenmeyer (2023): President

Timothy Poon (): Editor Director

Vivian Ha (2023): Static Site Director

2022-2023

Advaith Gowrishetty (): Special Events Director

Angela Ling (2024): Design Director

Archie Datta (2024): Dev Outreach Director

Ashley Lu (2024): Special Events Director

Ava Asmani (2024): Advisor

Carissa Ott (2025): JEDI Director

Dane Payba (2024): Special Events Director

Divya Ponniah (2023): Dev Advisor

Evan He (2024): Training Director

Ishani Sarkar (): Outreach Director

Jenny Wang (2025): Curriculum Director

Jiin Kim (2024): Dev Team President

Joseph Ramirez (2024): Curriculum Director

Kaitlyn Wang (2022): Advisor

Kaylee Harris (2024): School Lead

Matthew Nieva (): Dev Advisor

Nathan Endow (2024): Training Director

Nicholas Hamakami (2024): Static Site Director

Nikhil Kumar (2022): Advisor

Premkumar Gridhar (2024): Training Director

Robert Tran (2023): School Lead

Sruthi Rangarajan (2025): Teaching Director

Vivian Ha (2023): Dev Advisor

2023-2024

Graduating Greats!

Teach LA honors its alumni who have stayed with the organization through graduation.

• Enrique Segura (2017)
• Apurva Panse (2018)
• Krishna Babu (2018)
• Connor Borden (2019)
• John Stucky (2019)
• Michael Grieve (2019)
• Richard Wen (2019)
• Christina Indudhara (2020)
• Lawrence Lee (2020)
• Arjun Subramonian (2021)
• Aseem Sane (2021)
• Bonnie Lee (2021)
• Ethan To (2021)
• Farrah Au-Yeung (2021)
• Jamie Liu (2021)
• Malak Hmimy (2021)
• Sharvani Jha (2021)
• Will O'Brien (2021)