Meet Our SI Leaders
Acct 2200 SI Leaders
Kimberly Mendoza
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Management | HR/American Sign Language
"I wanted to be an SI Leader because I want to be able to help my peers and share my knowledge in a resourceful way."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Human Resources Manager
Mohammad Rizvi
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Finance
"Being in SI is a great way to help out other people, while at the same time being able to gain internship experience."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Still exploring my options, but something in finance.
Xingyu Li
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Supply Chain and Information Management
"I choose to become a SI leader because it could help students fulfill their academic goals and to review this knowledge for me."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Business Consultant.
Glynnis Tan
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Global Business/Management
"I choose to become an SI Leader because I believe everyone should have a chance to succeed. These classes are hard to tackle alone, and if it were not for my peers, I would not have been able to succeed in the way I do. I want to give back and help others succeed so they can pass the knowledge forward."
Career/Personal Aspirations: I aspire to become a global business manager who can travel, enjoy where life takes me, and inspire those around me.
Hannan Siddique
Year: 2025
Major/Minor: Accounting
“I wanted to be an SI leader so I can share my knowledge to help my peers succeed in their academic goals”
Career/Personal Aspirations: My goal is to become a CPA and to make my own accounting firm.
CHEM 1083 SI Leaders
Saloni Chauhan
SI Team Leader
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Biology | Health Profession
"I want to be a SI leader because I believe that helping students achieve a better grade in challenging courses is extremely important. When working in group settings for the SI sessions it can be very effective to develop some learning mechanisms which can lead you further towards your academic goals."
Career/Personal Aspirations: My goal is to attend a Master’s program focussing on the Biology Health Profession and become a Physician Assistant.
Sheyla Farfan
SI Team Leader
Major/Minor: Biology | Health Professions
"I wanted to become an SI Leader to help my peers in difficult courses such as CHEM 1083. This is also another way to help me improve my communication skills and confidence."
Career/Personal Aspirations: My goal is to graduate from Kean University and pursue my masters in Health Administration.
Katherine Sung
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Biology Teacher of Students with Disabilities P-12
"I chose to be an SI Leader in order to gain more experience, help others strengthen what they have learned, and maybe even start to enjoy Chemistry/STEM."
Career/Personal Aspirations: To be a High school teacher and maybe eventually a Professor.
Yara Mohamed
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Biomedicine, Science & Technology
"I wanted to become an SI leader to pass forward the skills I learned from my mentors. Learning challenging courses can be difficult and helping other students through their experiences is very rewarding."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Physician, Anesthesiologist.
Keyla Cuenca
Class of 2026
Major/Minor: Biology Forensic Science
"I wanted to be an SI leader to help students taking Chemistry 1083 and be a guide for them on difficult topics they may face. I understand the workload that comes with chemistry and by reviewing it over with students and helping them through questions I feel that I am reviewing the content as well."
Career/Personal Aspirations: My goal is to finish my bachelors degree and go onto Medical School. I hope to become a Forensic pathologist or even explore my options after medical school.
Organic CHEM 2581 SI Leaders
Andrew Banaag
Major/Minor: Chemistry
"I wanted to be an SI Leader because I wanted to help others succeed in difficult classes and make it an enjoyable learning experience. Previously, SI Leaders helped me succeed and I wanted to do the same."
Career/Personal Aspirations: I want to become a toxicologist to work in labs.
Nikita Goltyapin
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Biology | Health Profession
"Becoming an SI Leader was a natural choice for me - I want to help students to see that Organic Chemistry is not something to be afraid of, and I enjoy helping other students unlock their potential and set themselves up for success."
Career/Personal Aspirations: To bring my knowledge and experience in healthcare and technology to the PA profession and positively influence the medical field.
Chemia Felix
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Biology/ Health Professions
"I decided to become a SI leader because I enjoy assisting others, and I want to help students by sharing my knowledge. I'd like to share my own struggles and experiences with them, so they know they're not alone. I took organic chemistry twice, and the second time I excelled. I want them to understand that getting up and trying again is acceptable."
Career/Personal Aspirations: My aspirations is to graduate from Kean University and gain admission to P.A. school.
CHEM 2582 SI Leaders
Andrew Clark
Organic Chemistry SI Team Leader
Major/Minor: Biology I Health Professions
"I chose to become an SI Leader for Organic Chemistry because it was a course I truly enjoyed and developed a deep understanding of. I want to share the knowledge I have obtained in this course to ensure students do well as I did."
Career/Personal Aspirations: My goal is to attend the Physical Therapy program offered at Kean University and eventually become a physical therapist.
Rinchu George
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Biology I Professional Track Program
“I chose the SI program because of my interest in gaining an important internship program and the teaching experience it will provide.”
Career/Personal Aspiration: To become a Dentist.
Maria Seidle
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Biology: Cellular and Molecular
"I wanted to be an SI leader because I wanted to become more involved on campus and help others gain more confidence in their learning."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Becoming a Physicians Assistant.
CPS 1231 SI Leaders
Zachary Gordon
SI Team Leader
Major/Minor: Computer Science | Cybersecurity
"I wanted to become a SI Leader because I have passion for Computer Science, and I want to help students understand the material and build their confidence, while also improving on these skills myself."
Personal/Professional Aspirations: My professional aspiration is to have a career in Cybersecurity.
Kimberly Opara
Major/Minor: Computer Science | Cybersecurity
"I chose to be an SI Leader because I find educating and group learning most helpful and rewarding. Supplemental Instruction has helped me excel in my courses and I want to extend that help to others, and hopefully see them succeed too!"
Personal/Professional Aspirations: I aspire to be an FBI agent to help protect the world's information, as more and more information goes online. My ultimate goal is to build a cybersecurity cooperation that serves various companies internationally.
Alejandro Chavez-Mayoral
Major/Minor: Computer Science
"SI personally helped me with passing my classes. In return, I would like to help other students with passing their classes as well."
Personal/Professional Aspirations: I aspire to work in the field of Artificial Intelligence as a computer vision engineer. I would also like to direct my own movie in the near future.
Dahana Moz Ruiz
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Computer Science I Cybersecurity
“I became an SI leader because I want to help students who struggle with the material and because of the experience that SI provides.”
Career/Personal Aspirations: I want to explore machine learning & AI or the cybersecurity field.
CPS 2231 SI Leaders
Gabriel Serrano
SI Team Leader
Major/Minor: Computer Science
"I wanted to become an SI Leader in order to help students who may be struggling in their courses. I also intend to use this opportunity to work on my social skills and build up my confidence throughout the semester."
Career/personal Aspirations: I want to become a Software Developer, specifically backend if possible.
Joseph Waldron
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Computer Science
"I chose to be an SI leader to help other students who might find coding difficult but want to succeed."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Backend Developer.
Ayan Desai
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Computer Science | Cybersecurity
“I chose to be an SI Leader because of the leadership opportunities it provides and allows me to help students with the subject that I am interested in.”
Personal/Professional Aspirations: My professional aspiration is to get an Internship while in college and get a degree in Cybersecurity. Also, I will like to get a job in Cybersecurity in the future.
A'nya Carr
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Computer Science
"I chose to be an SI Leader because I enjoyed how fun and effective being in a study group setting is, especially for a difficult course. I hope to help students reach the parts of studying that are exciting and experience breakthroughs in their capabilities."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Explore my interests in Computer Science and Teaching
CS 0412 SI Leaders
Le Ana Haris
SI Team Leader
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Elementary Education K-6
"I chose to be an SI Leader because I have always love helping others with school work."
Career/personal Aspirations: I want to be a 6th grade math teacher.
Olivia Cornwell
Major/Minor: Communications | Public Relations
"I love being able to help my peers. I find being able to have them independently understand something is one of the most rewarding feelings someone can have!"
Career/Personal Aspirations: I want to work as a Public Relations specialist in E-sports and video game streaming after I graduate.
Celina Luna
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Speech Language Hearing Sciences/ASL
"My motive as an SI leader is to help the student body reach their full potential. I love helping and being part of a team."
Career/Personal Aspirations: I want to travel and become a speech pathologist.
Math 1044 SI Leaders
Carolina Lajara
SI Team Leader
Major/Minor: Speech Language Hearing Sciences
"I want to be an SI leader because I enjoy teaching others and want to see all students succeed. "
Career/Personal Aspirations: To help those in need.
Ashley Muhando
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Speech Language Hearing Sciences
“I wanted to be able to guide others to thrive academically in their courses. College can be challenging and being a part of a student's journey to success is important to me. This experience allows me to be more social and collaborate with more students. I also get to help them build confidence and watch them grow throughout the semester.”
Career/Personal Aspirations: To become a Speech Language Pathologist and work with children/ have my own private practice. I would eventually like to obtain my master’s and my doctorate degree.
Carla Salib
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Biology | Health Professions
"I wanted to be an SI leader because I love math and I also love helping my peers. I took precalculus last semester and I really liked it so when I heard that I can be an SI leader for this course and help students with it I was so excited. I hope I can help students struggling with this course do better as well as those doing well keep their progress."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Become a Dentist.
Arley Garcia
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Exercise Science: Pre-PT
"I wanted to become an SI leader because I want to guide my peers to success."
Career/Personal Aspirations: I want to become a Physical Therapist.
Alyssa Panohaya
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Actuarial Science
"It has been, and continues to be, my aspiration to be a Supplemental Instructor that helps students build confidence in their mathematics skills! As an SI leader, I am in the position to help students re-inforce their knowledge after each class and watch how their attitude towards hard topics soon turns optimistic."
Career/Personal Aspirations: Actuary
Math 1054 SI Leaders
Alex Calpo
SI Team Leader
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Speech Language Hearing Sciences/ASL.
"I hope to help my peers not only pass the class but excel beyond what they imagined. I became a SI Leader so that I could see that moment of understanding in my peers’ eyes once they begin to grasp a difficult concept."
Career/Personal Aspirations: To be a speech therapist for children with speech impediments, and I aspire to continue leaving a positive impact with whoever I meet.
Haneen Ali
Class of 2023
Major/Minor: Mathematics | Teacher Education K-12
"I choose to be an SI leader because I found this program very interesting, I'm able to share my experience for the course CS 0409 with the students and provide them with studying strategies and tactics to succeed in the course. I found this as an amazing opportunity because I'm an education major, and this position will give me experience on how to create lesson plans, fun activities and be able to interact with students"
Estella Blankson
Class of 2024
Major/Minor: Biology | Health Professions
“I wanted to be an SI leader because I always love to make people's interests one of my top priorities. Being an SI leader for Math 1054 would create the platform for me to give students the additional help they need to ace the course.”
Career/Personal Aspirations: To become a Physician Assistant in pediatrics.
Ericka Salgado
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Biology
"I desired to become an SI leader because I wanted to help my peers around me. As a fellow student, I know the struggles that others can go through, and I want to be that help in times of confusion. I love to assist others to the best of my ability and hope to make an impact in the life of at least one individual".
Career/Personal Aspirations: I hope to become a general dentist and never stop showing love to others.
Abijith Manikandan
Class of 2025
Major/Minor: Computer Science
“I chose to be an SI Leader to help other students acquire more confidence in order to succeed in challenging courses.”
Career/Personal Aspirations: I aspire to be a Software Engineer in the future as I enjoy critical thinking and problem-solving in a creative and collaborative environment.