Suki Kulvaraporn

Suki Kulvaraporn is a native Bangkokian but studied in Singapore for 7 years. She recently graduated from Stanford with a BA in Public Policy and a concentration in business policies. She loves to cook and bake for her friends and dreams to be like the Barefoot Contessa of the Food Network some day. Till that day comes, she will be working at McKinsey & Company in Bangkok, Thailand.

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Kevin Siew

Kevin Siew is a senior at Stanford University in the department of Management Science and Engineering. He co-founded SEALNet at Stanford to bring together students and professionals interested in development work in Southeast Asia. He will be returning to Singapore in June 2006 to work for the Singapore Armed Forces as an Army Lieutenant. In his free time, Kevin loves to backpack around the world, having traveled to 36 countries in 6 different continents. He has also served as a short-term missionary to Kenya and Ecuador with Youth With a Mission (YWAM). Snowboarding and soccer are his other pastimes and he spends the rest of his time investing in public equities.

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Viet Minh Huynh

Viet Minh Huynh is concurrently pursuing an Economics B.A. and a Management Science and Engineering M.S. at Stanford University. Inspired by his peers at Stanford and by professionals in the Bay Area, Viet co-founded SEALNet to contribute his part in helping the less fortunate. He worked at the World Bank office in Hanoi, Vietnam last summer, and will intern at Lehman Brothers in New York City this summer. In his free time, Viet enjoys traveling, hiking, playing soccer, and reading.

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Jiun Haur Wang

Jiun Haur Wang is an undergraduate student at Stanford University, majoring in both Physics and Economics. He is an avid basketballer and will never forget the golden times back in secondary school and junior college when he was with a group of friends he is proud to call brothers for life. He also loves reading fantasy books and listening to Chinese music. He is the webmaster for SEALNet, and will return to Singapore in June 2008 to work for the Singapore Government as a civil servant.

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Natasha Thexton

Natasha Thexton is currently an undergraduate at Stanford University. She is currently debating between Biology and International Relations. Perhaps she will double major or just combine the two and major in international health. Her specific region of interest is Southeast Asia because that is the origin of her family.

James Teo

James Teo is a graduate student at Stanford pursuing a M.S. in Management Science & Engineering and has a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Upon completion of his studies in June 2006, he will be returning to Singapore to serve a 4-year scholarship bond with Singapore Airlines. In his spare time, James is an avid dancer (ballroom/social/salsa) and also enjoys sports activities like basketball, tennis, golf and volleyball.

Minh Hai Tran

Minh Hai is a third year student from London School of Economics – UK with a degree in Economics and Geography. She has interned at Goldman Sachs and United Nations Development Program the last two summers. She enjoys travelling, making new friends and doing things that make a difference to other people. She is looking forward to another great summer.

Jung-Eun Shin

Jung-Eun Shin is graduating this June with a BA degree in Studio Art from Stanford University. She is an active member at the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at Stanford. She served as a short-term missionary in an orphanage in Takeo, Cambodia. As an artist, she showed her video installation most recently at the Cantor Arts Center. Jung-Eun will attend Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU starting September 2006.

Trang Nguyen

Trang Nguyen is a graduate from the Hanoi International School and an incoming Harvard freshman. With a passion for numbers and patterns, she plans to major in Mathematics. However, she is still open to changes over the next few years. In her free time, she reads books, plays basketball, and dances. Trang gets excited at anything related to dancing and is hoping to find a relationship between maths and dance someday. Having lived six of her childhood years in Thailand, she can't wait to return this summer.

Kaori Takyu

Kaori Takyu is junior majoring in Development Studies in the department of International Area Studies at University California. She came to the United States from Japan after high school. She tries many outdoor sports, including surfing, snowboarding, soccer, fishing, and camping. She also really wants to go rockclimbing soon. This summer she is going to Peru for two weeks to study microfinance institutions and NGOs in the native Peru Indian society. After the Thailand programme, she will stay in her home in Japan for a month and half. Her biggest interest in academics is world poverty and public health.

Thu Thuy Ta

Thu Thuy is graduating from the London School of Economics with a BSc. Accounting and Finance this July. She's a passionate amateur artist as well as a writer. She doesn't believe in market efficiency nor a perfect world, thus everyone has an equal chance of attaining success, whatever choice they make or whichever background they come from. Having an obsession for adventures, travelling and meeting new people, she has, is and will readily participate in any projects that has those criteria. In 2002, she joined a Student Volunteer Scheme in Vietnam with a goal to bring changes to a little remote mountainous village in Bac Kan province. The experience of living with no basics such as clean water, electricity, etc... has given her another perspective of life and equality. It has triggered her to learn more and gave her confidence to act.

Yongfeng Ye

Yongfeng is currently a sophomore majoring in Economics at Stanford University. A Singaporean to the core, he really enjoys his laksa, hokkien mee and roti prata. He loves Judo and tries to use it to get in shape. Yongfeng also enjoys reading books and magazines on history and politics, particularly of the period following the Napoleonic Wars. He intends to graduate in 2007 and pursue a masters degree on the East Coast.

Megan Chiou

Megan Chiou is a sophomore at Northwestern University studying Education and Social Policy with an emphasis in Learning and Organizational Change. As one who has yet to travel to any Asian country besides her parents’ native country of Taiwan, Megan is excited at the prospect of being able to interact with and experience the culture in Thailand. At Northwestern, she is an active member of the community as she serves as the president of TASC, the Taiwanese American Students Club, and volunteers frequently with Special Olympics. In her spare time, Megan enjoys drawing, painting, and playing 21 questions with obscure movie trivia.