Our Team

Who are the Project Advisors?

Our Project Advisors are Carnegie Mellon students who have a passion for their work and who are excited to inspire students in the Pittsburgh community. They have a wide range of specific skills gained through their own project based work at CMU. They are a wonderful and enthusiastic group of people who can't wait to get to work with you! .

Executive Board

**Name**: Lily Klucinec
**Graduation** **Year**: 2025
**Major**: Statistics/Science, Technology, and Public Policy
**Interests**: I love hiking, listening to new music, reading, and dabbling in photography.
**Position:** President
**Fun** **Fact**: I am from Pittsburgh and love to give restaurant recommendations!

**Name**: Trish Nhan
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major:** Economics and Politics
**Interests**: I am most interested in sustainable chemistry and environmental/health policy! I love to learn about philosophy and math as well. Outside of school, I love to play soccer, play video games (Valorant and Minecraft), and play piano. I like to think that I’m pretty good at ping pong.
**Position:** Vice President of Communications (external)
**Fun Fact**: I am Vietnamese

**Name:** Carmen Hagerty
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major:** Civil Engineering
**Interests:** I love biking, lifting, painting, and camping
**Position:** Vice President of Projects
**Fun Fact:** This is my 7th year in Project Ignite

**Name:** Elizabeth Masyukova
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major:** Biology
**Interests:** I'm interesting in pursuing research in immunology, virology, and genetics. I'm pretty passionate about my major in biology at CMU.
**Position:** Vice President of Communications (internal)
**Fun Fact:** I do glassblowing in my free time!

**Name:** Kate Stamper
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major:** Business Administration
**Interests:** I am very interested in design and digital art. I am a pole vaulter on the track and field team. I love cooking and baking.
**Position:** Vice President of Finance
**Fun Fact:** I love snowboarding and skateboarding.

Project Advisors

**Name:** Saanika Chauk
**Graduation Year:** 2026
**Major:** Information Systems, minors in CS and HCII
**Interests:** coding, drawing, human-computer interaction, bullet journaling/scrapbooking, dancing
**Project Interests:** Anything with tech that helps people or fun, artsy coding projects!
**Fun Fact:** I'm a Pittsburgh local and I did Project Ignite in high school too!

**Name:** Caroline Connolly
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major:** Math (Operations Research and Statistics Concentration)
**Interests:** In course of study: Data Analysis; Outside of college: baking, fashion, makeup, reading
**Fun Fact:** My picture is taken at Prague Castle in the Czech Republic!

Name: Robby Famiglietti

Graduation Year: 2026

Major: Biology

Interests: In my course of study, conducting research has been really interesting to me ever since I decided that being in the STEM field was what I wanted to do following high school. Modeling situations that are difficult to directly observe has also been something I’m interested in, which is why I would like to minor in comp. bio. Outside of college, I love the outdoors, and I love going hiking.

Fun Fact: I’m interested in pursuing and learning how to do graphic design as it’s something I enjoy doing casually.