📧: haerat.alabi@yale.edu

📜: Neuroscience

Haerat is a sophomore in Saybrook College. The best college. SAY WHAT?!? She looks forward to being a peer liaison for the chaplain’s office. She loves reading, journaling, and cooking in her spare time. Over the summer she rediscovered her love of traveling through a study abroad in Amsterdam. She absolutely loved her first year at Yale, all the community she found, and all the side quests she went on. She can’t wait to show the incoming first years the best parts of Yale. 

📧: emma.donnini@yale.edu

📜: Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Emma is a junior from Champaign, Illinois. On campus, she’s involved in public health initiatives and research, and in her spare time, you’ll find her turning over obscure corners of Yale’s Jewish music scene (ask her about nigun circle!), taking long walks around New Haven, studying in the Divinity School, and playing Bananagrams with her suitemates. She’s so excited to support her PLees through all the highs and lows of starting college, especially when it comes to settling into and living in religious communities that might look different from home.

📧: lauren.s.kim@yale.edu

📜: Ethics, Politics & Economics

Lauren is a Senior in Timothy Dwight College from Ridgefield, CT. On campus, she plays the flute in the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra. She has also performed in the Yale Concert Band, the Collegium Musicum, and pit ensembles for student musicals. Her hobbies include hot yoga, bible study, and attending musicals, plays, and operas. She is excited to be a welcoming and supportive resource for first-years!

📧: gian.lombeyda@yale.edu

📜: English

Gian is a Sophomore from Los Angeles, California who has dedicated his life to storytelling through scriptwriting, sports analytics and bread baking. When he’s not writing, you can find him attempting to recreate pop-rock beats on the drums, or—more often—analyzing local and international soccer games. Growing up as the representative of his Hindu faith at the local interfaith group, he is passionate about learning about all faiths and spiritualities. He would love to offer support as a friend and religious peer to first-years as they navigate Yale!

📧: michelle.mao@yale.edu

📜: History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health

Michelle is a sophomore in Davenport College, originally from Newark, DE. On campus, you can find her volunteering at local nursing homes with the Nourish Project or filing taxes with Yale VITA. Michelle is looking forward to helping first-years navigate faith and college life at Yale. She is excited to meet everyone and is always willing to chat!