SEA CLEAR

Project Director
Name	Layhannara Tep
Hometown	Long Beach
Year	Alumnus 2011
Major	English (Creative Writing)/Asian American Studies
Email	layhanz@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Oversee project development and facilitate development of admin and staff.  1-on-1 counseling sessions with students.  Liaison building with on and off campus entities.
Interests/Hobbies	Reading, writing, music, art, movies, going to the beach, coffee shops
Interesting Fact	I spend a lot of time people watching and writing at coffee shops.

Assistant Director
Name	Christine Lam
Hometown	Garden Grove, CA
Year	3rd
Major	Psychobiology
Email	christine112991@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Facilitate development of staff and interns through understanding history, self, and community to work for 100% retention and for leadership in the Southeast Asian Community.
Interests/Hobbies	Spending Sunday afternoons at coffee shops, great food & great company, spontaneity, cleaning with good music, and jogging around the neighborhood.
Interesting Fact	I have a squishy little soft spot for people who wear glasses.

Peer Counseling Coordinator
Name	Thomas Van Le
Hometown	San Jose, Ca
Year	3rd
Major	Chemistry
Email	le.thomas.van@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	To oversee the Peer Counseling Component of SEACLEAR and is responsible for the development of its Counselors in addition to facilitating the relationship between counselors and counselees.
Interests/Hobbies	My hobbies include talking to girls, learning about girls,Reading about girls, Reading about girls while talking to a girl, eating and sleeping.
Interesting Fact	I don’t have an interesting fact.

Mentorship Coordinator
Name	Sandra Nguyen
Hometown	Sacramento, CA
Year	3rd
Major	International Development Studies major / Global Studies & Education double minor
Email	snguyen118@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Running a mentorship program to help Southeast Asian students have a sense of family at UCLA and to facilitate the development of a Southeast Asian individual and collective identity
Interests/Hobbies	Running, Cross-Stitching, Eating out at new place
Interesting Fact	I like getting the XXX spice at Boiling Crab

Wellness Coordinator
Name	Sokline Hing
Hometown	Stockton
Year	5th
Major	Southeast Asian Studies/ Asian American Studies
Email	soklinehing@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	To serve as the primary role in academic and holistic well-being through strengthening our relationship with the Southeast Asian collective culture in the areas of physical, mental, spiritual, gender, sexuality and spatial wellness. Also to facilitate wellshops encompassing the various elements of wellness. To bridge relations with different stakeholders on and off campus.
Interests/Hobbies	Listen to music, eat errthang BUT seafood in other words NOTHING from the waters, Buddhism, languages, long walks on the beach, and horror films.
Interesting Fact	I have been cutting my own hair for the past 2 plus years, I keep it swag.

Administrative Assistant
Name	Joelene Nguyen
Hometown	Westminster, CA
Year	2nd
Major	Psychobiology
Email	joelenenguyen@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	providing administrative support to the project, archiving project’s minutes and documents, keeping staff accountable, helping out other components in programming.
Interests/Hobbies	delicious food and great friends, music, jigsaw puzzles, beach, city lights, traveling, singing with friends
Interesting Fact	I have a fetish for panda. I also have a thing for guys with nice fingers (:

Peer Counselor
Name	Saly Heng
Hometown	Paramount, CA
Year	5th
Major	Civil Engineering (Emphasis Structural/Geotechnical/Transportation)
Email	sheng0589@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Have 1on1′s counsel sessions with students and facilitate in all other components in SEACLEAR
Interests/Hobbies	Playing/Listening to Music, Tennis, Cooking, Outdoors
Interesting Fact	I enjoy mosh pits!

Peer Counselor
Name	Marilyn Nguyen
Hometown	San Jose
Year	2nd
Major	Biochemistry
Email	nguyen.marilyn13@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Have 1on1′s counsel sessions with students and facilitate in all other components in SEACLEAR (I totally copied and pasted this from Saly)
Interests/Hobbies	Volleyball, running, eating food, playing online games, watching movies
Interesting Fact	My first basketball hoop was made with a football.

Peer Counselor
Name	Darlene Tran
Hometown	Westminster, CA
Year	4th
Major	Psychology major, Asian American Studies minor
Email	darlenentran@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Help foster academic and holistic development through 1-on-1 sessions, and help carry out the vision and goals of SEA CLEAR as a whole.
Interests/Hobbies	Long walks on the beach, cuddling (this is practice for my e-harmony application btw), and being part of an EPIC staff!
Interesting Fact	I can’t eat Pho! I was also born in a subway.

Peer Counselor
Name	Bounrod xiong
Hometown	Fresno, Ca
Year	3rd
Major	Sociology/Asian American Studies
Email	boun.xiong@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	Have 1-on-1 peer counseling sessions with students 3-4 times a quarter to facilitate the holistic development of empowered students and strive for 100% retention.
Interests/Hobbies	Music, Cooking, Baking, The Sims, Videogames, The Big Bang Theory, V, Food Network, Writing
Interesting Fact	I broke my left femur in 4th grade which left me hospitalized for 1 1/2 months and then in a body cast for 1 month.  I had to re-learn how to walk!

Peer Counselor
Name	David Chhay
Hometown	Long Beach
Year	4th
Major	History
Email	davidchhay90@gmail.com
Responsibilities of Position	To build stake holding relationships with other transfer service entities on campus and create a stronger transfer curriculum that will better address transfer needs and issues
Interests/Hobbies	Video games, long romantic walks on the beach
Interesting Fact	I’m not Vietnamese