Kyonne Isaac - Executive Director 2010
Kyonne Isaac is a senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in African & African American Studies at Stanford. She has worked in the Mind, Culture & Society research lab for the last three years, conducting research that explores identity, race, culture and prejudice within the individual and its interaction with society. Her honor's thesis focuses on identity affirmation in response to the perpetual foreigner stereotype in the Asian American community and its impact on interactions with other American minority groups. She hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in Social Psychology and become a university professor. In her time away from lab and school work she enjoys dancing, reading, and volunteering as Co-President for the Stanford NAACP.

Adriana Miu - Executive Director 2009
Adriana Miu was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the U.S. in 2001. While directing SUPC, she was a junior majoring in psychology and economics at Stanford. She joined a lab doing research on HIV intervention with online social networks, such as Facebook and Myspace. Past research projects include testing stigma and people's willingness to pay for an HIV test in a test bundle compared to a separate test. In addition to her interest in social psychology, she also enjoys learning about stress and motivational factors in students. She hopes to become an educational psychologist, and combine her knowledge and experiences in the fields of psychology, education, and economics. In her free time, she likes to read, play piano, ping pong, and basketball.

Peter Radu - Executive Director 2008
Peter Radu was a junior at Stanford majoring in psychology when he directed SUPC. He also served as the president for the Psi Chi chapter at Stanford, and was the principal investigator of a study examining the ability of behavioral measures of impulsiveness to predict relapse in individuals recovering from substance addiction. Peter was also involved as a research assistant on a project exploring the facets of therapeutic listening, a direct relationship to his interest in the writings and theories of Carl Rogers. He hopes to pursue a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. When not in the lab or library, he enjoys playing on the Stanford club hockey team and, in the fall, supports the rapidly-improving Stanford football team.

Lauren Anas - Executive Director 2007
Lauren graduated from the University of Oregon in 2004 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Business. While at the University of Oregon, she worked for a clinical lab investigating the role that stressful life events play in the onset and maintenance of major depressive disorder. While directing the Conference, Lauren served as a research coordinator for the Stanford Mood and Anxiety Disorders Lab, a position that she held for two years. In addition to psychology, she enjoys reading and spending time outdoors.

Carolina Gutierrez - Executive Director 2006
Carolina is originally from Salinas, California, and was a master's student at Stanford while serving as SUPC Executive Director. She also completed majors in both Psychology and German Cultural Studies, and a minor in Ethics in Society, at Stanford. Previously, she worked as a Lecturer's Assistant for the Introduction to Psychology course and helped with research in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry. Hoping to go to law school or a school of public health, she was specifically interested in the intersection of health/ medicine and race/ ethnicity/ culture. She worked for Kaiser Family Foundation for over a year on issues related to minority health policy. In her free time, she enjoys gossiping with her sister, trying new foods, and Latin dancing.

Eva Chen - Executive Director 2005
Eva Chen was a senior from Taiwan majoring in Psychology and coterming in Sociology while serving as SUPC Executive Director. She conducted research in the Tsai Culture and Emotion Lab since her sophomore year, and worked on a Bing project looking at the differences in affect valuation in preschool children. In the summer before her senior year, she worked in the Boroditsky Cognation Lab, looking how languages influence thought. Eva completed an Honor's thesis on the relations between religion and emotion. She also served as Director of Internal Affairs ('03-'04) and Director of Programming & Events ('04-'05) for the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association, and as the Financial Officer for the Stanford Chapter of Psi Chi. In addition, she served as Associate Director for SUPC 2004 and directed SUPC 2005. Eva hopes to go on the graduate school in psychology and eventually return to Taiwan as a professor.

Felicity Miao - Executive Director 2004
Felicity Miao, originally from Hong Kong, was the Lab Manager for Dr. Jeanne Tsai's Culture and Emotion Lab at Stanford University while the Executive Director for SUPC. She had just recently graduated from Stanford with both a B.A. and M.A. in psychology. Her Honors and Master’s thesis explored the underlying mechanisms responsible for differences in affect valuation (ideal emotions) between Asian Americans and European Americans. During her four years as a student at Stanford, Felicity was a teaching assistant for several courses, and was awarded the Centennial Teaching Assistant Award as well as the Departmental Teaching Assistant Award for outstanding teaching. Felicity was also active in the department by serving as the President and Vice-President of the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association, and as an Associate Director for the 3rd SUPC. In addition, she was a member of the Student Council for the Western Psychological Association (WPA) in 2003-2004.

Michael Osofsky - Executive Director 2003
Michael Osofsky is originally from New Orleans, LA. He graduated from Stanford with a B.A. and M.A. in Psychology, and received both Departmental Honors and University Distinction, as well as several awards including the Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research, the Dean’s Award for Academic Accomplishment and the James W. Lyons Award for Service. Michael was also selected in 2003 by USA Today to their ALL-USA First Academic Team as one of the top 20 college students nationwide for overall excellence in academics, leadership and extracurricular pursuits. During his four years at Stanford, Michael conducted research under the mentorship of Philip G. Zimbardo and Albert Bandura, involving more than 300 interviews with correctional officers who directly work with executions in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. In addition, he has given more than 15 professional presentations and has published 5 articles on his research. Michael was President, Vice-President, and Peer Advisor of the Stanford Undergraduate Psychology Association, Co-President of the Stanford Chapter of Psi Chi, a two-time ASSU Undergraduate Senator, and a Director for the 1st and 2nd SUPC.

Sarah Mascarenas - Executive Director 2002
Sarah Mascarenas is originally from Tempe, AZ, and completed law school at Yale after leaving Stanford. While pursuing her master's and bachelor's degrees in psychology at Stanford, she served as Co-President of Psi Chi, advised on the department's curriculum committee, and was a teaching assistant for several courses. Her academic research explored relationships between cortisol levels, rumination, and negative cognitive bias in major depressive disorder. As Executive Director of SUPC in 2002, she increased the conference's community outreach program, launching a high school psychology poster contest and giving guest lectures at local high schools. While Sarah maintains her love for psychology and her commitment to community affairs, her current interests lie in the regulation and operation of financial markets. She is looking forward to a career in investment banking and eventually hopes to launch her own clothing line in Los Angeles.

George Slavich - Conference Founder &
Executive Director 2001
George Slavich is originally from Santa Clara, CA. Currently, he is a Society in Science: Branco Weiss Fellow and NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychoneuroimmunology at the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology at UCLA. He founded SUPC in 2001 while earning a B.A. in psychology, M.A. in psychology, and M.A. in communication at Stanford. He subsequently received an M.S. and Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Oregon. Before arriving at UCLA, he was a clinical psychology intern at McLean Hospital, a clinical fellow in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a visiting scholar at the Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences in Split, Croatia, and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology and Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF. In addition to his research, which examines the psychobiology of life stress and depression, George has been a long-time champion of student interests. In addition to SUPC, he founded the Western Psychological Association Student Council (in 2002) and helped found the Society of Clinical Psychology's Section on Graduate Student and Early Career Psychologists (in 2006). For these and other contributions, he received the first ever APS Albert Bandura Graduate Research Award, the APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award, and the APA McKeachie Teaching Excellence Award -- three of psychology's highest honors for graduate teaching and research.