Our Executive Board
BPHA is dedicated to recruitment and functioning with leaders. We help all, but reach out to ambitious and courageous individuals to run the program. We are composed of people interested in all things from Dance to Community Service.
President - Darren Mikael Gordon
Concentration: Movement Science, c/o 2013
Minor: General Philosophy
Darren having served as an executive board member for BPHA last year, now pursues higher goals. As president of BPHA, a student Mentor, and Representative of the Kinesiology Student Group, he plans to pave the way for the successful matriculation of other students interested in health from a clinical and research aspect.
Vice President - Nicole Allen
Concentration: Psychology, c/0 2013
Nicole formerly served as Treasurer on last year’s BPHA executive board. She works in a research lab in the BSRB and is considering various post graduate options. She also is involved in Lambda Theta Alpha, and helping to start a new organization called Thrive.
Secretary - Myia Woodley-Sharrieff
Concentration: Neuroscience, c/o 2015
Myia is on the pre-medical pathway as an aspiring obstetrician and gynecologist with an interest in pursuing entrepreneurship as well. She enjoys volunteering and helping support youth to follow their passions.
Treasurer - Kristina Johnson
Concentration: Neuroscience, c/0 2014
Kristina has served as a general member of BPHA prior to holding an executive board position. She is currently a LEAD scholar, a Big SIB, and a member of Dalliance DanceCrew.
Academic Chair - Elaine Otechere
Concentration: Biology, c/o 2013
Community Service Chair - Olubisi Ajetunmobi
Concentration: International Studies-Global Health and Environment, c/o 2015
Olubisi Ajetunmobi hopes to bring the organization closer by planning service activities that will not only help the community but also help the members of BPHA. She is also a part of the S.I.B.S. Core, the DSA Advisory Board and a dance group on campus called Amala.
Publicity Chair & SNMA Liasion - Ogechukwu Obiejesi
Concentration: Biochemistry, c/o 2013
Oge has served for an executive board member for ASA , mentor for SIBS and is now part of BPHA. She plans to help increase member attendance and awareness of this organization and help others overcome similar difficulties she has been able to overcome in her path to medical school.
Historian - Naomi Black
Concentration: Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience, c/o 2015
As Naomi enters her second year at U of M, she is serving on the 2012-2013 BPHA executive board. She Aspires to lead by example in everything she pursues, still taking in any skills presented and accomplishing lifetime goals, laying the foundation for future success.
Parliamentatian - Gerlain Ulysse
Concentration: Biopsychology Cognition & Neuroscience, c/o 2014
Guerlain has been involvement as a Global CGIS Ambassador, a Michigan’s Model UN Director, and a published research author, which will certainly aid him to the path needed to succeed.