List of 2010-2011 directors
List of currently active volunteers
Board of Directors 2010-2011
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Christine Khademi '12, Co-President
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Christine is a senior at Stanford University. Her involvement with Kids With Dreams began in 2008-2009, when she volunteered for ASSP and served as a board member on the Program Development Committee. In 2009-2010, she served on the Events Committee where she planned great quarterly events as well as organized and co-led KWD's Student-Initiated Course in the spring. Last year she served as Co-President of the group and will be continuing that role this year, supporting the organization's goals of improving the lives of disabled children and connecting students with the Palo Alto community by expanding KWD's volunteer programs, inspiring new volunteers to join the KWD team and maintaining the organization's current success and passion for assisting those in need. She hopes all Kids With Dreams members and volunteers appreciate the unique role KWD serves in both the Stanford and wider communities.
khademi@stanford.edu
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Richie Sapp '13, Co-President, Challenger League Soccer and Baseball Coordinator
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Richie is a junior at Stanford University and currently undeclared, yet he is interested in pursuing a career in medicine. He joined Kids With Dreams his freshman year as a volunteer for Special Skaters and the Challenger Baseball league. Richie has a lot of personal experience working with kids with special needs as he has a twin brother with learning disabilities. He hopes to motivate volunteers to join the new Challenger soccer league program as well as other new initiatives of this fantastic organization. He has a lot of ideas to bring to the table after working with both the Best Buddies organization and Miracle League program throughout high school. He hopes to empower the mission and connect Stanford students with the Palo Alto community. In his spare time, Richie enjoys playing violin and piano, hanging out with his friends, and watching scary movies.
rwsapp@stanford.edu
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Ye Ye Zheng '11, Graduate Student Advisor
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Hui Ye Zheng is a co-term student in Management Science & Engineering. She joined Kids With Dreams her freshman year in 2006 as a volunteer for the Special Needs Aquatic Program, which allowed her to both have fun instructing kids in the water and contribute back to the Palo Alto community. Over the years, she has worked on the Program Development team and as Co-President. This year, she looks forward to continuing to help Kids With Dreams grow and improve the liason it serves between Stanford students and the Bay Area community. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, traveling and watching Asian dramas.
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April Zhang '11, PD Chair, Special Needs Aquatic Program (SNAP) Coordinator
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April is a senior at Stanford majoring in Biology with a specialization in Neuroscience. She joined Kids with Dreams in her freshman year as a volunteer for Special Needs Aquatic Program (SNAP), which combines her love for swimming and working with kids with disabilities. This year, she is excited to introduce new volunteers to Kids with Dreams and inspire them to work with special needs children through not only SNAP, but also all the other amazing programs including skating, soccer, and the after-school socialization program. Next year, she plans on attending medical school. In her free time, she enjoys road trips, concerts, beach bonfires, and football. (Go
Buckeyes!)
aprilz@stanford.edu
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Charissa Tansomboon '11, Special Skaters Coordinator
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Charissa is a senior at Stanford majoring in Psychology and Human Biology. She first became involved in Kids with Dreams as a volunteer for the Special Skaters program, and was drawn in by the kids bubbly enthusiasm and charm. Special Skaters combines her background and passion for figure skating with her love of children. Charissa has been a competitive figure skater for over 10 years, and has had previous experience working with Special Olympics figure skaters. As coordinator this year, she is excited to share the Kids With Dreams experience with new volunteers, and foster a positive environment for all the volunteers and children who participate in our program.
charissa@stanford.edu
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Jeffrey Tran '11, After School Socialization Program (ASSP) Coordinator
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Bio coming soon!
jstchen@stanford.edu
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Lindsey Geher '13, New Initiatives Coordinator
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Lindsey is a sophomore at Stanford University and although currently undeclared, plans to major in economics and pursue a career in law. She joined Kids With Dreams her freshman year as a volunteer for the Challenger Baseball league. Lindsey has a personal interest in, as well as substantial experience working with, children with developmental disabilities as she has a younger brother with autism. Growing up with a brother with autism inspired her to research the genetic etiology of language performance in children with autism spectrum disorders at UCLA while in high school. She has also been dancing since age three and would like to combine her dance experience with her passion for improving the lives of individuals with special needs. As New Initiatives Coordinator, she hopes to start a Special Dance Program with KWD to empower and integrate children with physical and mental disabilities into the community.
lgeher@stanford.edu
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Shilpa Sethuraman '13, New Initiatives Coordinator
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Shilpa is a sophomore at Stanford University. She is majoring in Economics, with a possible minor in Management Science & Engineering. She joined Kids With Dreams this year as a New Initiatives Coordinator to start a Special Dance Program. She has been performing Indian classical dance for almost her whole life, was a member of the Bhangra team last year, and is currently on Sanchali, a fusion dance team on campus. During the summer of 2008, she taught Down Syndrome kids dance and math at Rasa, an organization in India. After teaching there and watching blind children dance, she was inspired to use her passion for dance to help others. So, she started a nonprofit organization called Charity Through Art (CHAART) Foundation that organized arts events to raise funds for charitable organizations. Now, she is working on a project through KWD to teach disabled kids dance.
shilpa91@stanford.edu
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| Events Committee
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Sheila Amara Onyiah '12, Events Co-Chair
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Sheila Onyiah is a sophomore majoring in Human Biology.
She joined Kids with Dreams her freshman year where she feel in love with the Special
Skaters Program. She supports the organization KWDs and its passion to integrate
children with physical and mental disabilities into the community via exciting
events such as swimming, ice skating, and socialization. She hopes everyone
would see the beauty of the organization and would want to lend a helping
hand for it grow. One of her missions for this year is to increase the
membership of KWDs one volunteer at a time!
sonyiah@stanford.edu
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Nick Iafe '11
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Nick Iafe is a Senior majoring in Human Biology, focusing his studies on Nutrition and Performance. He first became involved with Kids With Dreams as a Sophomore in the SNAP Program and hopes to continue again this year. Having been involved with an organization that serves the disabled in San Diego, he hopes to help develop new events to be implemented here in the Stanford community. After graduating, Nick wishes to backpack around South America before continuing to pursue a career in the medical field.
niafe@stanford.edu
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Lauren Platt '12
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Lauren Platt is a Junior majoring in Human Biology with a focus in International Health. Both her personal relationships with special needs friends and volunteer experiences with Children's Convalescent Hospital in San Diego inspire her to get more involved with special needs groups like Kids with Dreams. Her favorite experience was working on a project that transformed a forgotten patio of the Children's Convalescent Hospital into an abundant garden for medically fragile kids to explore flowers, fruits, and art. She also has an interest in integrating her passion for international medicine and speicial needs by looking at disabled communtiies in other countries throughout the world.
lplatt@stanford.edu
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| Finance
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Aileen Bui '12, Finance Chair
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Aileen Bui is a senior majoring in Human Biology. She is interested in pursuing a career in the medical field and one of her dreams is to travel the world. She became involved with Kids With Dreams at the end of her freshman year through the Special Needs Aquatics Program, where she was able combine her love of the pool with her passion for working with children and contributing back to the community. This year she is excited to continue working with SNAP while also helping to promote Kids with Dreams as a member of the board.
abui3@stanford.edu
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| Website Maintenance
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David Creighton '08, Webmaster
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David is a recent graduate of Stanford University, earning a BA
in Human Biology ('08) and an MS in Biology ('09). He became involved with KWD during his senior year
through the Special Skaters program, joined the Board of Directors the following year as a member of the Program Development Committee, and served as Co-President of KWD last year, while working on campus as a Teaching Assistant. David is originally from Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada, and is currently completing his second year of medical school at Columbia University in New York City.
dwc2114@columbia.edu
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