
meet the officers

Co-President
Christia May Alega
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Management Information System’24
Pham: JTAPS!!
Most likely to: have her dogs out
Most excited for: creating a fun environment for my team and helping them host the best events ever !!!

Co-President
Kaylee Ngitit
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Landscape Architecture’25
Pham: J-TAPSSSSSSS
Most likely to: re-park multiple times in the same spot
Most excited for: i’m super excited to lead this year’s philsa members with my co president + the rest of my officer board <3

Vice President Internal
Brittain Tran
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Biochemistry’26
Pham: J TAPS
Most likely to: win chubby bunny
Most excited for: SEEING EVERYONE AT ISANG MAHAL!!

Vice President External
Elinor Acebu
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: community health’24
Pham: jtaps
Most likely to: have a spotify wrapped minutes listened over 100,000 minutes
Most excited for: as a vice president external, i’m looking forward to seeing members get excited for and have fun at goodphil!!! dub szn bb WHOOP

Secretary
Mia Nguyen
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Architectural Engineering and Film Studies Minor’24
Pham: JTAPS JTAPS JTAPS I HEART JTAPS
Most likely to: tell you to retake a picture of me except that’s really your fault because why wouldn’t you just take a good one to begin with and then we wouldn’t be in this situation
Most excited for: all of you to text me the night before points are due asking where your points are🤭

Treasurer
Aaron Santillan
Pronouns: He/Him
Major: Kinesiology’24
Pham: J-Taps
Most likely to: [REDACTED]
Most excited to: watch PhilSA grow in numbers both financially and in population.

Public Relations
Liz Kemsley
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: International Affairs and Economics’25
Pham: Spam PHAM
Most likely to: get fomo
Most excited for: KAB!!!!

Marketing
Elaine Nguyen
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Public Health’25
Pham: jtaps <3
Most likely to: eat hotpot for 3 days straight
Most excited to: post all your cute faces on the insta 🤭

Philanthropy
Evelyn Nguyen
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: BIMS’26
Pham: J-Taps
Most likely to: spend their life savings on lululemon
Most excited to: SERVE💁♀️ (our community) while creating new memories with members :D

Graphic
John Dilidili
Pronouns: He/Him
Major/Year:Mechanical Engineering’26
Pham: No Name
Most likely to: Never learn to drive
Most excited to: Make cool merch for y’all and attend a lot of fun events!

Cultural Curator
Lance Gomez
Pronouns: He/Him
Major/Year: Allied Health’25
Pham: J-Taps
Most likely to: Show up late (I blame traffic)
Most excited for: Meeting new members and reconnecting with current ones through my cultural events (which everyone should go to), as well as teaching the members about Filipino culture and other aspects of the Philippines.

Fundraising
Gabe Javaluyas
Pronouns: He/Him
Major/Year: Biology’26
Pham: Hanabi
Most likely to: Look like a youtuber
Most excited to: get y’all’s money up🤑🤑🤑

Fundraising
Eleazar Soriano
Pronouns: He/Him
Major/Year: Mechanical Engineering’25
Pham: Jtaps
Most likely to: Meet your parents
Most excited for: Concessions with all the homies :)

Sports Co-Coordinator
Anya Marquino
Pronouns: She/her
Major/Year: Materials Science & Engineering’25
Pham: No Name
Most likely to: Take a 5hr nap
Most excited for: Goodphil szn

Sports Co-Coordinator
Ysabella Harris
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Accounting’26
Pham: No Name
Most likely to: get your mom’s number ;)
Most excited to: take over Goodphil

Historian
Tim Ta
Pronouns: He/Him
Major/Year: Biology’24
Pham: JTAPS
Most likely to: Lose their voice
Most excited for: Making the GP hype video B)

Historian
Jasmine Wong
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Biology’26
Pham: No Name Pham
Most likely to: stop and pet every dog on the street
Most excited for: I can’t wait to capture the memories we’ll make throughout the year :)

Cultural Co-Director
Ronan Clarite
Pronouns: He/him
Major: Engineering’26
Pham: Spam
Most likely to: Be put on probation
Most excited for: As a cultural co-director, I’m excited that I have the opportunity to lead and teach a group of people a little bit about Filipino culture through dances that my grandparents used to do.

Cultural Co-Director
Paul Refugio
Pronouns: he/him
Major/Year: Public Health’26
Pham: No Name
Most Likely to: post a bad pic of his friends bc he didn’t notice
Most excited for: Hi guysssss!! I’m Paul and I’m looking forward to show y’all what Ronan and I have planned for our cultural team this year. I LOVE MEETING NEW FACES 😄 so feel free to reach out to me on Instagram or say hi to me at any PhilSA events!!! See y’all soon. :)

Modern Co-Director
Brenda Almanza
Pronouns: she/her
Major/Year: Animal Science and Entomology’24
Pham: J-taps
Most Likely to: pick up a bug
Most excited for : I’m excited to see the new faces join our team this year and I’m glad I can encourage people to dance :)

Modern Co-Director
Jess Weissling
Pronouns: He/Him
Major/Year: Mechatronics Engineering’24
Pham: J Taps
Most likely to: Bring milk to a function
Most excited for: Growing our Modern team 🥹