Meet the 2015 EBS Board
- Diversity Chair
- Coordination Chair
- Education Chair
- Mentoring Chair
- Community Outreach Chair
Olivia Bernal
As
our Diversity Chair, Olivia serves as liaison with the Program for
Diversity and Inclusion and sits on the Diversity and Inclusion Student
Advisory Committee. She also seeks to
connect EBS with other graduate women’s groups within and beyond the
Penn Medical Community.
Olivia
grew up in Northern California. She attended Penn for undergrad and
graduated in 2012 with a degree in Biological Basis of Behavior.
Although a California girl at heart, she
considers Philadelphia her second home. When she isn’t napping in the
library between classes, she enjoys listening to music, sipping tea, and
frequenting Philly’s BYOs with friends.
Jessica Dong
Jessica
is our Coordination Chair. She is responsible for organizing our
meetings, taking notes, managing the budget, liaising between the EBS
board, the Medical Student Government, and all EBS members. She keeps
the group organized by putting together
our event calendar and keeping us on track to meet our goals for the
year.
Jessica calls many places home, including Rockville, MD and San
Francisco, CA. She graduated from Dartmouth college in 2012 majoring in
Biology and minoring in Environmental Studies. In her free time she
enjoys going to farmer's markets, cooking, playing
volleyball, and running.
Christy Hong
As our Education Chair,
Christy coordinates various events to educate and
empower our student community on gender-related issues in the medical
career. These include lunch talks and workshops on various topics that are
relevant to women in medicine.
Christy feels attached to parts of Korea, Canada, and the US—where she
grew up at different points in her life. She graduated from Harvard
College in 2012 with a degree in Economics, worked a bit, and did a
post-bac program at Bryn Mawr College. When
she is not catching up on schoolwork, she likes to exercise (jogging,
hiking, yoga, hiphop dancing, you name it), watch not-too-serious TV
shows, and eat good food with friends.
Gia Yannekis
As
our Mentoring Chair, Gia connects first year students with faculty and
second year student mentors. She works to recruit
faculty and upperclass mentors, pair students and mentors based on
common interests, and plans the big "reveal" event where first years
meet their second year "bigs". She also organizes mentorship-based
events including the MS1/MS4 mixer and a residency panel.
Gia grew
up in Brookline, MA and graduated from Barnard
College with a degree in Sociology in 2013. In her free time, she
enjoys traveling (particularly to microstates), watching musicals and
romantic comedies, eating Magnolia cupcakes with her best friend, and
people watching on public transportation.
Rosaline Zhang
Rosaline acts as our Community Outreach Chair. She coordinates our annual "Paths to Medicine" outreach event with young girls in the local community, as well as our "Matriarchs of PennMed" dinner and panel. Rosaline also runs our website!
Rosaline grew up in the suburbs of Seattle. Although she loves the beautiful Pacific Northwest, she also calls Philadelphia her home. Rosaline graduated from Penn in 2014, with a double major in Urban Studies and Biology. In her free time, Rosaline enjoys running, listening to podcasts, baking vegan desserts and planning surprise birthday parties.
2014 Board Members
Christy Marcaccio - Community Outreach Chair
Jenna Klubnick - Diversity Chair
Katie Paolucci- Education Chair
Lauren Miller - Coordinator Chair
Tawnee Spawling - Mentorship Chair
