Boardroom

Amy Metrick SM’27 | Co-President
amy.metrick@yale.edu
Amy is a junior in Silliman from New Haven, majoring in Computer Science and Math and doing the certificate program in Education Studies. When she’s not playing the clarinet in DPops, she is usually at CS or math office hours, doing Computational Biology lab work, or teaching math to New Haven students. In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, writing songs, graphic designing, and snuggling her two very fluffy cats! All of the time, she is listening to Taylor Swift and lobbying for a new Taylor DPops arrangement.

Iris Liebman BR’27 | Co-President
iris.liebman@yale.edu
Iris is a junior in Branford from Brookline, Massachusetts majoring in chemistry (with a certificate in medieval studies!). When she’s not playing the flute in DPops, you can usually find her somewhere on science hill, either doing chemical biology research or taking a nap on the second floor of Steep. She spends most of her free time listening to Taylor Swift and baking chocolate chip cookies, but you can occasionally find her attempting to escape campus by going on hikes up East Rock.

Jeremy Ng TC’26 | Head Conductor
jeremy.ng@yale.edu
Jeremy is a senior in Trumbull double majoring in Computer Science and Astrophysics. Conducting DPops has been one of the greatest joys of his experience at Yale. He started playing the piano when he was 5 and added cello (his DPops instrument), organ, and the carillon. Outside of DPops, you can see him arranging multi-part holiday pieces, editing videos, or letting loose on the Taekwondo mat.

Samson Wong MC’27 | Assistant Conductor
samson.wong@yale.edu
Samson is a junior in Morse College, studying in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry (MB&B) and Global Health (Certificate). Outside of DPops, he sings with Pitches and Tones, and does research at the med school. He listens to music purely based on vibes, and is an avid enjoyer of all things food.

David Wang GH’28 | Assistant Conductor
david.z.wang@yale.edu
David is a sophomore in Grace Hopper college from San Ramon, California, studying math, computer science, and economics. Outside of DPops, you’ll often find him practicing kendo, playing IM sports to avoid homework, or staying up late in the TEAL room to finish said homework. He’s also a metalhead and horror movie aficionado.

John Owen Weber ES’26 | Head Arranger and Social Chair
johnowen.weber@yale.edu
John is a senior in Ezra Stiles, studying Mathematics, Education Studies, and French. He’s usually found in the library listening to whatever music is currently (or will be!) arranged for the orchestra, but outside of that, you can find him fishing, reading, writing, or waiting for it to snow.

Genevieve Kim TD’26 | Director of Development
genevieve.kim@yale.edu
Genevieve is a senior in Timothy Dwight from Michigan majoring in Neuroscience. When she’s not living it up playing trumpet in DPops, she’s usually doing research, writing music, reading, spending time at the top of East Rock, making jewelry, and having movie marathons with friends.

Lilia Potter-Schwartz MY’26 | Director of Development
lilia.potter-schwartz@yale.edu
Lilia is a junior in Pauli Murray from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, majoring in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry with a certificate in Global Health Studies. Outside of DPops Lilia is part of the club running, the Murray College Council, Partners in Health Engage, and pursuing infectious disease research. In her free time, Lilia loves searching for the best latte in New Haven and walking to the farmers market with friends!

Mason Abrell DC’26 | Social Chair
mason.abrell@yale.edu
Mason is a junior in Davenport majoring in Physics and Global affairs. When he’s not playing the flute in DPops, he can be found reading high fantasy books in some long-forgotten nook of a library, staring at a blackboard trying to remember Taylor Expansions, or practicing kendo. He also loves good tea, so if you have either tea or book recommendations, send them his way!

Ro Malik MY’27 | Website Manager and Assistant Arranger
r.malik@yale.edu
Ro is a junior in Pauli Murray from New York studying everything they can (but mainly computational biology, cognitive science, and linguistics). Aside from being a proud violist in DPops and arranging whatever music is bouncing around in their head, they can be spotted speed-walking up and down Prospect St, going on long and less speedy walks throughout New Haven with friends, trying to play every piano on campus, or watching a pretty sunset from one of Yale’s many tall buildings.

Kira Tang TC’27 |Assistant Arranger
kira.tang@yale.edu
Kira is a junior in Trumbull from Lexington, MA majoring in Cognitive Science. In addition to arranging and playing the cello in DPops, she loves drawing, writing, making bad puns, cooking, and eating unreasonably spicy food.

Abril Linares Mendoza JE’28 | Orchestra Manager
abril.linaresmendoza@yale.edu
Hi everyone! My name is Abril, I play the violin, and I am DPop’s Orchestra Manager. I’m originally from Mexico but I’ve also lived in Maine and Pittsburgh. My major is computer science and economics. Apart from DPops, I’m also involved in Yale’s Mariachi band and play violin for my church choir on the weekends! In my free time I love to play ultimate frisbee and I am Brick Oven Pizza’s #1 Sunday Special enthusiast 😀

Chris Shia SY’27 | Publicity
chris.shia@yale.edu
Chris is a junior in Saybrook majoring in Computing and the Arts and plays the cello for DPops! He makes games and plays games and also plays game music for DPops and hopes to arrange something for this school year (which may or may not happen).

Sophie Zhao Heitfield BR’28 | Publicity
sophie.heitfield@yale.edu
Sophie is a sophomore in Branford from Washington DC. She is a Chemistry and Classics double major, and when not drowning in Greek readings, she’s doing research, making art, or dancing for the Yale Ballroom Dance Team and Red Lantern!

Eric Xiong DC’28 | Davenport Liaison
eric.xiong@yale.edu
CS&Polisci✊Loves learning random useless things🃏Big video game & fingerstyle fan😍

Angélique Wheeler PC’26 | Librarian
angelique.wheeler@yale.edu
Angélique is a senior in Pierson majoring in History and Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology. When not playing violin in DPops, she sings with Whim ‘n Rhythm and the Yale Glee Club. Angélique also can be found at Pierson College Council meetings and attempting to stick to one creative project at a time.

Sophia Zhang DC’28 | Librarian
sophia.l.zhang@yale.edu
Sophia is a sophomore in Davenport from New Haven, majoring in Computer Science and Psychology. Besides playing flute in DPops, she loves reading, singing karaoke, listening to Laufey and Lyn Lapid, sleeping, and going on walks with friends.

Morgan Go BR’28 | AV Team Co-Director
morgan.go@yale.edu
My name is Morgan Go and I’m majoring in Computer Science and Psychology! Along with being in DPops, I am also in Amoriem Labs, a Game Development group on campus, and Yale AI Policy Initiative.

Julia Landres JE’28 | AV Team Co-Director
julia.landres@yale.edu
Julia is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards college majoring in Physics with a certificate in Russian. She lives in New York and loves hiking in the Catskills and occasionally in the White Mountains up in NH. Besides playing horn for DPops, she also plays for the Yale Concert Band. Outside of physics and music, she enjoys anything language-related, like linguistics, conlanging, and language-learning.

Jam Lian BK’28 | AV Team
jam.lian@yale.edu
Jam is a sophomore in Berkeley studying CS and Urban Studies. In addition to playing violin, he also loves watching western animation, playing volleyball, making maps and reading.

Karim Najjar MC’27 | PopsUp Initiative Leader
karim.najjar@yale.edu
Karim is a junior in Morse College studying history and modern middle eastern studies, with a certificate in data science. When not rocking the tuba at DPops or cooking up something exciting with the newly formed PopsUp committee, you can find him cycling around campus, eating delicious food at the MENACC, or relaxing with a wonderful graphic novel.