Meet the Team

Editor-in-Chief

Meenakshi Ambati

Meenakshi Ambati is a junior majoring in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and is a Hahn and Global Health Studies scholar. As Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Undergraduate Research Journal, Meenakshi oversees all aspects of the journal including the editorial process, student outreach, finances, and final publication/distribution.

Together with the YURJ team, she hopes to expand the platform for undergraduate researchers at Yale and beyond to share their work and engage in meaningful scholarly activities. In her free time, she enjoys making pottery, painting landscapes, performing research in immunology and corporate sustainability, and encouraging scientific curiosity and engagement among young students.

Administrative Team

Community Outreach Leads

  • Alyssa Anderson

  • Grace Goslin

  • Phillip Ha

  • Sarah Jeddy

  • Christopher Kim

  • Shawn Nordstrom

  • Renee Wu

Editorial & Production Team

  • Ines Choi

    Associate Editor - Humanities

  • Leilani Eth

    Associate Editor - Humanities

  • Dev Katyal

    Associate Editor - Humanities

  • Kimberly Nguyen

    Associate Editor - Humanities

  • Jake Robbins

    Associate Editor - Humanities

  • Donovan Brown

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • Marie Bong

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • Riley Diep

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • Blake Maulsby

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • Mateo Pechon-Elkins

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • Mirabel Raphael

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • William Zhang

    Associate Editor - Social Sciences

  • Justin Baldassarre

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • Darren Chen

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • Kenny Cheng

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • David Backer Peral

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • Alex Popescu

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • Rohan Suri

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • Charlie Wong

    Associate Editor - STEM

  • Lily Gao

    Associate Production Editor

  • Jessica Navarro

    Associate Production Editor

  • Jillian Sullivan

    Associate Production Editor

  • Sophie Zheng

    Associate Production Editor