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!
Emma Tu
(she/her)
Curriculum President
Vera Peker
(she/her)
General Advisor
Faris Eltaki
(he/him)
Social & Finance Director
Skylar Tanartkit
(she/her)
Special Events Director
Anusha Singhai
(she/her)
Curriculum Director
Bhavesh Pathak
(he/him)
Curriculum Director
Tiffany Orian
(she/her)
Curriculum Director
Shayla Kumaresan
(she/her)
Curriculum Director
Neil Johnson
(he/him)
School Lead
Michael Chen
(he/him)
School Lead
Javier Castaneda
(he/him)
School Lead
Clara Zhang
(she/her)
School Lead
Shane Vandevelde
(he/him)
School Lead
Dev Board
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!
Jennifer Lee
(she/her)
Dev Co-President
Shenran Chen
(she/her)
Dev Co-President
Tiffany Wang
(she/her)
Design Director
Jishan Kharbanda
(he/him)
Static Site Director
Megan Luu
(she/her)
Dev Training Director
Rahul Khanna
(he/him)
Dev Project Manager
Mirabel Vuong
(she/her)
Dev Project Manager
Charlene Huang
(she/her)
Dev Project Manager
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.
2023-2024
Aarushi Verma: School Lead
April Sun: School Lead
Carissa Ott: (2025) Jedi Director
Eden Yu: Advisor
Janie Kuang: School Lead
Joseph Ramirez: (2024) President
Mihir Srivastva: School Lead
Nicholas Wang: Curriculum Director
Sruthi Rangarajan: (2025) President
Vera Parke: Special Events 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
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
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
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
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
2017-2018
Apurva Panse (2018): President and Outreach Director
John Stucky (2019): Head Instructor
Krishna Babu (2018): Logistics Director
Richard Wen (2019): Curriculum Director
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
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)
