Who Are We?

2025-2026 Executive Board Members

President: Jahana Kharas ’27

Vice President: Sho Lala ’26

Treasurer: Samantha Freitag ’26

Secretary: Swara Rao ’27

Social Media Coordinator: Abby Beardsley ’26

Communications Coordinator: Aleah Childs ’27

From left to right: Jahana Kharas, Sho Lala, Abby Beardsley, Aleah Childs, Samantha Freitag (Not Pictured: Swara Rao)

Faculty Advisor: Amanda Hamel, PhD

Dr. Hamel is a Senior Lecturer in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department. She coordinates the department’s Junior Year Writing program, mentoring the graduate students that teach the (many) sections and frequently teaching her own section. Dr. Hamel also teaches many Neuroscience courses, such as Drugs & Behavior (Fall) and the Lab in Neuroscience (Spring).

Faculty Advisor: Matt Davidson, PhD

Dr. Davidson is a Lecturer in PBS and teaches courses on Methods of Inquiry, Brain and Cognitive Development, Sport and Exercise Psychology, and the team-taught Lab in Neuroscience. He is interested in both typical and atypical development and how genes and environments interact to produce individual differences in all of us.