2022 SSEA Staff
Professional Staff
Lourdes Andrade (she/her)
Position: Senior Director, Equity & Inclusion
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Bethlehem Aynalem (she/her)
Position: Assistant Director, Equity & Inclusion
Hometown: American Canyon, CA
Gaby Velazquez (she/her)
Position: Assistant Director, Graduate Communities
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Luz M. Jiménez Ruvalcaba (she/her)
Position: Assistant Director, Graduate Outreach and Recruitment
Hometown: Inglewood, CA
Martha Schmidhauser (she/her)
Position: Accounting Associate
Hometown: Iowa City, IA
Resident Fellows (RFs)
Current Stanford graduate students responsible for the residential well being of the SSEA program.
Rachel Portillo (she/her)
Degree: MA Environmental Communication
Hometown: Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
Resident Assistants (RAs)
Current Stanford undergraduate students responsible for the residential well being of the SSEA program.
Gabe SantaCruz (he/him)
Major: Computer Science
Fun fact: I know how to lucid dream o.O (control my dreams)
Heidy Badillo (she/her)
Major: Science, Technology & Society
Fun fact: As a child, I wanted to be an astronaut!
Hywot Ayana (she/her)
Major: Undecided
Fun fact: I can’t whistle yet.
Imgard Bonheaur (she/her)
Major: Undecided
Fun fact: I broke my glasses in the 5th grade walking to a bathroom stall door. Luckily no one else was in the bathroom, but I had to go back to PE class with one of the sides holding my glasses up, completely detached.
Yaayaa Pajibo (she/her)
Major: Product Design
Fun fact: I can eat ghost pepper and not cry.
Ji Hong Ni (he/him)
Major: Computer Science
Fun fact: I’ve recently fallen into a Genshin Impact hole…
Kimberly Juarez (she/her)
Major: Environmental Systems Engineering
Fun fact: I once made an EDM song out of the sound of dorm fire alarm going off at 4 a.m.
Steven Li (he/him)
Major: Computer Science
Fun fact:I spent my summer living with a Colombian family communicating purely with Google Translate
Emily Bunnapradist (she/her)
Major: Mathematics/Symbolic Systems
Fun fact: I thought reindeer were fake until I saw one in seventh grade.