Meet Our Executive Team & Previous Executives

Dedicated graduate students working to represent and support our community

Dr. Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez
ALES GSA Advisor

Dr. Guillermo Hernandez Ramirez

Associate Dean of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies

Guillermo has been working at University of Alberta since 2012. He is currently a professor and gladly serves as associate dean of graduate & postdoctoral studies at Faculty of ALES. He has previously lived and studied or worked in countries such as New Zealand, Costa Rica, Panama, Germany, Ecuador, Venezuela, and United States. Interacting with graduate students in ALES is insightful and rewarding for Guillermo as this work underpins impactful education and their future careers.

Elsie Rebecca Osei
President

Elsie Rebecca Osei

HECOL

PhD candidate researching on intersections of material culture, fashion, and societal dynamics

Prithviraj V
VP Communication

Prithviraj V

AFNS

PhD Student researching on cold plasma and nanobubbles

Priscillar Wenyika
VP Student life

Priscillar Wenyika

ReNR

PhD candidate researching on the soil health benefits of liming in the Canadian prairies

Dayani Patuwatha Withanage
VP Finance

Dayani Patuwatha Withanage

AFNS

PhD Student researching on wheat–canola rotation systems.

Zoe Wagner
HECOL Representative

Zoe Wagner

HECOL

Master's student working on collecting strategies for African textiles in museums and the study of Burkinabè textiles in the U of A’s Anne Lambert Clothing and Textiles Collection

Juan Andres Luchsinger
REES Representative

Juan Andres Luchsinger

REES

Master's student in Rural Sociology at the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology

Lisa Naa Okai
ReNR Representative

Lisa Naa Okai

ReNR

Master's student researching on the effects of pre-commercial thinning on tree resilience in lodgepole pine

Anubhav Tripathi
AFNS Representative

Anubhav Tripathi

AFNS

Master's student involved in a canola genetics and molecular breeding project

Past Executives

Honoring the dedicated leaders who have served ALES GSA in previous years

Past Executive 2024-2025
2024-2025

2024-2025 Executive Team

President: Chathuranga De Silva - batapola@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Tharangani Somarathna - somarath@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Oshadhi Pavithra - oathukor@ualberta.ca
VP Communications: Janani Radhakrishnan - jradhakr@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Sonia Navvuru - navvuru@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Priscillar Wenyika - wenyika@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Aynaz Gerami - gerami@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Rajitha Botheju - botheju@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2023-2024
2023-2024

2023-2024 Executive Team

President: Sarah Ejekwuipe - ejekwuip@ualberta.ca
VP Communications: Jo Ann Chew - joann.chew@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Chathuranga De Silva - batapola@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Sarah Aminah Namiiro - namiiro@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Etseoghena Obi - etseoghe@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Elsie Rebecca Osei - erosei@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Surabhi Lukose - slukose@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2022-2023
2022-2023

2022-2023 Executive Team

President: Bingxin Hai - bingxin@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Dagem Zekaryas Haddis - haddis@ualberta.ca
VP Communications: Jo Ann Chew - joann.chew@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Stanley Woo - skwoo@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Nanzhen Qiao - nanzhen@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Kiah Leicht - kmleicht@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Innocent Bahati - ibahati@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2021-2022
2021-2022

2021-2022 Executive Team

President: Harleen Kaur Dhaliwal - hd5@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Abdelhamid S. Himat (Hamid) - abdelham@ualberta.ca
VP Communication: Srujana Mekala - mekala@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Dilrukshi Kombala Liyanage - kombalal@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Laura Munevar Ortiz - munevaro@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Dilrukshi Kombala Liyanage - kombalal@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Hotaka Kobori - kobori@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Beckett Stark - bstark@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2020-2021
2020-2021

2020-2021 Executive Team

Note: 2020 and a pandemic. An in-person group photo wasn't recommended.

President: Harleen Kaur Dhaliwal - hd5@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Amritha Jaya Prasad - amritha@ualberta.ca
VP Communication: Klevis Haxhiaj - haxhiaj@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Iswarya Rajesh - iswarya@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Md. Saiful Hoque - hoque1@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Dilini Adihetty - adihetty@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Jerico Fiestas Flores - fiestasf@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Justine Lejoly - lejoly@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2019-2020
2019-2020

2019-2020 Executive Team

President: Lauren Degenstein - degenste@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Brasathe Jeganathan - jeganath@ualberta.ca
VP Communication: Derek Mueller - derek4@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Harleen Kaur Dhaliwal - hd5@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Jennifer Yurkiw - jyurkiw@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Srujana Mekala - mekala@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Kira Dlusskaya - dlusskay@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2018-2019
2018-2019

2018-2019 Executive Team

President: Oanh Nguyen - oanh@ualberta.ca
VP Communication: Yuan Fang - fang7@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Robyn Stobbs - stobbs@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Chandre Van De Merwe - vandemer@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Zhiying Wang - zhiying2@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Autumn Watkinson - autumnly@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Andrew Magnaye - amagnaye@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Yicong Luo - yicong5@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2017-2018
2017-2018

2017-2018 Executive Team

President: Darcy Bemister - bemister@ualberta.ca
VP Communication: Danielle Schultze - dms@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Robyn Stobbs - stobbs@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Oanh Nguyen - oanh@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Zhiying Wang - zhiying2@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Stephanie Ibsen - sibsen@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Mariko Wakefield - mariko@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Yangzhe Cao - yangzhe@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2016-2017
2016-2017

2016-2017 Executive Team

President: Pooran Appadu - pooran@ualberta.ca
VP Communication: Danielle Schultze - dms@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Stephanie Le - sle@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Mary Glasper - mglasper@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Darcy Bemister - bemister@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Paul Sewell - sewell@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Robyn Stobbs - stobbs@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Jolien Witte - jwitte@ualberta.ca
Past Executive 2015-2016
2015-2016

2015-2016 Executive Team

President: Muhammad Zubair - mzubair1@ualberta.ca
VP Finance: Shanika Donalds - shanika@ualberta.ca
VP Student Life: Valerie Miller - vsmiller@ualberta.ca
Secretary: Alison Murata - amurata@ualberta.ca
AFNS Rep: Sasha van der Klein - sv1@ualberta.ca
HECOL Rep: Mary Glasper - mglasper@ualberta.ca
ReNR Rep: Carolyn Gibson - cgibson3@ualberta.ca
REES Rep: Lucas Novak - llnovak@ualberta.ca

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