2024 – 2025 OSU SACNAS Leadership
President: René Castillo
René’s Email: Castillo.271@osu.edu
René is a 2nd Year PhD Student in the School of Earth Sciences. She studies Marine Geophysics to learn about earthquakes! She just completed her 4th NASA internship this summer. She is originally from San Antonio, TX and enjoys cooking trying a new craft when not doing science or being outdoors!
Vice-President: Felipe Caro Lopez
Felipe’s Email: Carolopez.1@osu.edu
Felipe Alberto Caro Lopez is a dual degree Master’s student in Public Policy and Latin American Studies, currently serving as the Features Editor for Que Pasa? Magazine.
Treasurer: Juana Nallely Segura
Nallely’s Email: segura.32@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Nallely is a biology major on the pre-med track. Overall, her career goal is to become a physician to serve underserved communities like the ones she grew up in. She is currently doing research that focuses on social determinants of health and their correlation to adolescent substance abuse in the Latinx community. She volunteers at the James Cancer Hospital. She is originally from Immokalee, Florida and comes from a migrant farm-working family
Secretary: Lilian Villegas-Hernandez
Lillian’s Email: lilian.villegas-hernandez@osumc.edu
Lilian is a 2nd year undergraduate majoring in Biochemistry and working towards pursuing an MD/PhD program. She conducts glioblastoma research in Goss Lab in the OSUMC Department of Radiation Oncology, volunteers at the James Cancer Center, and is a peer tutor at OSU! She is originally from Anderson, IN, and in her free time, she loves to listen to music, play sports, read, and find new coffee shops.
Graduate Recruitment & Fundraising Chair: Carmi Thompson
Carmi’s Email: thompson.4455@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Carmi is a 3nd year doctoral student in the School of Earth Sciences. Carmi’s research focuses on the intersections between museum collections, paleoecology, and geoscience education. Carmi was born in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and has a strong passion for community building, finding connections between seemingly disparate disciplines, and broadening participation in STEM.
Communications Chair: Luz Gomez
Luz’s Email: gomez.447@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Luz is a 2nd year Engineering Education doctoral student. Luz’s research focuses on the experiences of Diasporic Indigenous students in engineering. Her research interest also includes community-based learning in engineering. Luz was born in raised in Los Angeles but has strong connections to her Zapotec community in San Bartolome Quialana, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Outreach Chair: David Torres
David’s Email: torres.340@buckeyemail.osu.edu
David is a returning, non-traditional student and first-generation Ecuadorian American pursuing dual degrees in Food Science & Technology and Sustainable Agriculture with minors in Human Nutrition and Landscape Architectural Studies. His future academic goals include graduate school for human nutrition research or going directly into an MSTP to become a physician scientist specializing in biogerontology, the study of the biological aging process!
This summer, he was fortunate enough to be selected to be part of the 7th cohort of OSU’s ASPIRE Medical Research Program. He was paired with Dr. Praveen Goday, the Director of the Nutrition and Feeding Programs at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. His work under Dr. Goday includes a systematic review of growth charts for children with genetic disorders as well as conducting a preliminary survey to explore the connections between acculturation levels in immigrant families and the eating behaviors of their first-generation children.
2023-2024 E-board
President: Alex Ochoa
Vice President: Rene Castillo
Secretary: Amy Dokiburra
Treasurer: Mara Figueroa
Graduate Recruitment: Carmi Thompson
Undergraduate Recruitment: Amy Dokiburra
Fundraising: Carmi Thompson
2022-2023 E-board
President: Alejandra Martinez-Mendez
Vice President: Ale Zaleta Lastra
Secretary: Natalia Patritti Cram
Treasurer: Allison Chartrand
Outreach: Iresha Jayasinghe
Graduate Recruitment: Iresha Jayasinghe
Undergraduate Recruitment: Chris Kalman
Communications: Natalia Patritti Cram
National Liaison: Ashani Hangawatte
2021-2022 E-board
President: Allison Chartrand
Vice President: Gabo Zeballos
Secretary: Alexandra Martinez-Mendez
Treasurer: Daniela Bautista-Bernardo
Communications: Natalia Patritti Cram
Recruitment: Alexandra Cabanelas Bermudez
2020-2021 E-board
President: Priscilla M. Rodriguez Garcia
Vice President: Allison Chartrand
Treasurer: Xilal Rima
Communications: Ally Langley
Social Media: Elvia Lozano
Fundraising: Natalia Patritti Cram
Recruitment: Gabo Zeballos
National Liaison: Daniela Bautista-Bernardo