Boardroom

Kira Tang TC’27 | Co-President
kira.tang@yale.edu
Kira is a sophomore in Trumbull from Lexington, MA. In addition to playing the cello in DPops, she loves drawing, writing poetry, making absurd Spotify playlists, and cooking and eating unreasonably spicy food.

Genevieve Kim TD’26 | Co-President
genevieve.kim@yale.edu
Genevieve is a junior 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.

Mitchell Dubin BF’25 | Head Conductor
mitchell.dubin@yale.edu
Mitchell is a recovering bassoonist. He is also a senior in Franklin from Pittsburgh, PA majoring in Economics. Conducting DPops is a top highlight of his time at Yale. When off the podium, you can find him biking around campus, teaching Econ, practicing the piano/harpsichord/organ/carillon, or in R. His door (well, email inbox) is always open.

Jeremy Ng TC’26 | Assistant Conductor & AV Team Director
jeremy.ng@yale.edu
Jeremy is a junior in Trumbull double majoring in Computer Science and Astrophysics. After taking up conducting at Yale for the first time in his sophomore year, he is so excited to be conducting DPops officially! 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.

June Yoo BR’25 | Head Arranger
june.yoo@yale.edu
June is a senior in Branford majoring in Computer Science. He spends most of his time headbanging to odd time signatures or banging his head trying to come up with the next DPops arrangement, but you can sometimes find him listening to classical music, watching funny animal videos, or searching for the perfect apple in the dining halls.

Liam Barthelmy SM’25 | Head Arranger
liam.barthelmy@yale.edu
Liam is a senior in Silliman majoring in mathematics. Other than playing violin, they compose, obsess over video game music, play dnd with friends, and speedrun indie games.

Eric Gan DC’25 | Director of Development
eric.gan@yale.edu
Eric is a senior in Davenport majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology. When he’s not sightreading piano parts for DPops, you can find him doing immunology research at the School of Medicine, binge watching cooking videos, grabbing boba with friends to fuel his endless midterm cram sessions, and gaming late into the night.

Lilia Potter-Schwartz PM’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!

Helen Zhou PC’25 | Social Chair
helen.zhou@yale.edu
Helen is a senior in Pierson from Delaware majoring in Computer Science with a Chinese language certificate. Besides planning the best social events ever (and somewhat playing violin) for DPops, Helen also enjoys running (slowly), reading, watching her friend make jewelry, and trying new restaurants – but she still has yet to go on a New Haven pizza tour 🙂 This is the third (and last sadly) year that Helen will respond to this by saying she loves keshi and chai.

Iris Liebman BR’27 | Social Chair
iris.liebman@yale.edu
Iris is a sophomore in Branford from Brookline, Massachusetts majoring in chemistry. 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.

Keerthana Chari BK’25 |Website Manager
keerthana.chari@yale.edu
Keerthana is a senior in Berkeley majoring in Environmental Engineering with a certificate in Italian. Aside from playing the violin in DPops, she is a tour guide at the Yale Center for British Art and involved in science research. In her free time, she like to go on long walks, buy more books than she can possibly read, drink iced chai, and paint.

Samson Wong MC’27 | Orchestra Manager
samson.wong@yale.edu
Samson is a sophomore at Morse College majoring in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry (MB&B). Outside of Dpops, he sings with Pitches and Tones, serves on his residential college council, and does research at the med school. He listens to music purely based on vibes, is an avid enjoyer of all things food, and likes building anything that flies.

Chris Shia SY’27 | Publicity
chris.shia@yale.edu
Chris is a sophomore from Saybrook College majoring in Computing and the Arts (on the visual art track!) He plays the cello in DPops and is very excited be on publicity this year. Outside of DPops, he makes games with Amoriem Labs and is always on the hunt for caffeine.

Amy Metrick SM’27 | Publicity
amy.metrick@yale.edu
Amy is a sophomore 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 either at CS or math office hours or teaching math to New Haven students (listening to Taylor Swift either way). In her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, writing songs, designing stickers and posters on Canva, and snuggling her two very fluffy cats!

Mason Abrell DC’26 | Davenport Liaison
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 morning tea and soft sunrises, so if you have either tea or book recommendations, send them his way!

Angélique Wheeler PC’26 | Librarian
angelique.wheeler@yale.edu
Angélique is a junior in Pierson majoring in History and Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology. When not playing violin in DPops, she sings with Redhot & Blue 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.

John Owen Weber ES’26 | Assistant Arranger
johnowen.weber@yale.edu
John is a junior in Ezra Stiles college from Union, Maine. At Yale, he studies Mathematics and is pursuing a certificate in Education Studies. When he isn’t playing the saxophone or arranging for DPops, he can be found fishing, gardening, or desperately trying to improve his Fantasy Premier League team.