People of the Big Event

Co-ERGanizers

• Amanda Okamoto (ERG Manager)

• Chris Hyun (2013, ERGAN DEI Chair)

Volunteer Leads

• Student Liaison - Dakota Pekerti (2024)

• Online Engagement - Alex Hall Rocha (2024)

• Day-of Assistance - Candace Groskreutz (ERG Graduate Student Affairs Officer)

• Thurs-Sat: Registration - Kay Burns (ERG Staff Emerita)

• Fri: Field Trips - Andie Vas (2013)

• Fri: Alum Dinner - Jessie Knapstein (2015)

• Fri: Reception and Home Stays - Chad White (1997)

• Fri: Reception - Jamie Fine, in absentia (1996)

• Fri: Bar Take Over - Diego Ponce de Leon Barido (2012)

• Sat: Keynote & Plenary - Maryam Mozafari (2010)

• Sat: Networking - Sara Mulhauser (2017)

• Sat: Breakouts - Sam Arons (2005)

• Sat: Band - Sascha von Meier (1988)

• Sat: Childcare - Amber Kerr (2003)

• Sun: Cohort Events - Dan Aas (2015)

Photographers

• Jayla Walker (ERG Comms Assistant)
  Instagram: @jayla_walker7

• Eric Panzer (Chris's partner)
  Instagram: @ehpanzer

• All Big Event participants!
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Current Student Volunteers

Sophie Pesek, Sarah Sarafty Epstein, Jessica Katz, Annika Luo, Colette Brown, Kate Cullen, Liyang Wang, Cora Cliburn, Emilia Chojkiewicz, Simone Speizer, Jenny Rempel, Anna Mazur, Aneesha Manocha, Cello Lockwood, Ana Santasheva, Alina Zarate, Ari Ball-Burack, Kwabena Owusu Sarfo (in absentia)

Speakers & Breakout Facilitators

• Fri: Annual Lecture - Mary Nichols & Carla Peterman

• Sat: Welcome - Rashmi Sahai, Duncan Callaway, David Ackerly

• Sat: Keynote - John Holdren

• Sat: Plenary - Zoë Chafe, Heather Cooley, Tracey Osborne, Isha Ray (moderator)

• Sat: Breakout #1

  • Sara Mulhauser, Deepa Lounsbury, Lindsey Fransen, Eric Hallstein

  • Matt St Clair, Julian Fulton, Nia Jones

  • Garvin Heath, Bob Weisenmiller, Isa Ferrall-Wolf

  • Sam Arons, Andrea Vas, Jon Koomey

  • Dan Lashof, Grace Wu, Kevin Fingerman, Ryan Jones, Dan Sanchez

  • Zach Burt, Laura Moreno

• Sat: Breakout #2

  • Rashmi Sahai, Lindsey Fransen

  • Malini Ranganathan, Jesse Ribot 

  • Anna Brockway, Julia Szinai, Arne Jacobson, Jessie Knapstein 

  • Ronnie Lipschutz, Sascha von Meier

  • Emma Lawrence Tome

Noisy Neighbors Band

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