Team
Frontline Immunity is a youth-led organization with a leadership team that spans geographic regions, age groups, and verticals within the healthcare and education spaces. We are guided by advisors — physicians, educators, and health advocates — who help us review materials, connect with partner organizations, and bring vaccine education into classrooms. Frontline Immunity is grateful for our pro bono relationship with Torys LLP.
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Cha Cha Yang
Founding Director & Board Member
Cha Cha is an MS/MBA student at Harvard Business School and the Founding Director of Frontline Immunity. She earned her BA from Harvard College where she studied Regenerative Biology and History of Science, and served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Undergraduate Research Journal. Cha Cha has spoken as a White House panelist on vaccines alongside U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and hosted Canada’s Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Theresa Tam in conversation about vaccine education. Cha Cha grew up in Toronto and is a very proud Canadian.
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Wren Lu
Co-founder & Design Chair
Wren is one of the co-founders of Frontline Immunity and the Design Chair. As Design Chair, Wren works closely with the rest of the team to develop and execute thoughtful, engaging, and age-appropriate materials for vaccine education and community engagement. Since the founding of the organization, they have been thrilled and humbled to see its rapid growth in membership and scope, and believe strongly in its commitment to empowering youth to enact positive change in their own communities. Wren grew up in Boston and earned a BA in Integrative Biology from Harvard College.
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Karen Malacon
Board Member
Karen is originally from the Los Angeles area and is currently a second year MD-PhD candidate at Stanford University studying pediatric brain tumor microenvironments and the cells and circuits involved in altered brain function after systemic infection. Karen received her BA from Harvard University where she studied Neurobiology and Global Health and Health Policy.
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Michael Gao
Board Member
Michael is from Boston and graduated in 2020 from Harvard University, where he studied Chemical and Physical Biology. He is currently pursuing an MD-PhD at Columbia University. He enjoys teaching and working with students, and is very excited about the impact Frontline Immunity will continue to have on empowering youth to be public health leaders in their communities.
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Keziah Daniels
Youth Advisory Board Facilitator
Keziah Daniels is a current MD/MSCR student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA. She was born and raised in Guyana and migrated to the U.S. just before starting college at Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH, where she earned a B.S. in Biology. Keziah is passionate about the health of persons with uteruses, with specific interests in urogynecology, maternal and fetal medicine and reproductive freedom. Her career ambition is to train and work as an OB/GYN physician-scientist, aiming her research initiatives specifically towards medically underserved and research under-represented populations.
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Beverly Yu
Partnerships Director
Beverly Yu is a medical student entering her 4th year at Yale School of Medicine. After growing up in the Bay Area, she moved to Southern California for her undergraduate studies at UC San Diego, where she majored in Bioengineering (Biotechnology) and Economics. In medical school, Beverly has been involved with dermatology work and has a special interest in skin cancer prevention as well as teaching.
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Vickie Wang
Content Director
Vickie Wang is originally from North Carolina and earned a B.A. in Psychology at Stanford University. She is currently working towards an M.D. degree at Yale School of Medicine. Vickie is passionate about health education and health equity, and hopes to incorporate these interests into a future career in ENT (ear, nose, and throat). She has been involved in Asian American and LGBTQ+ community building.
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Janie Wang
Design Associate
Janie is a recent graduate from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Communications and minor in Korean. She is passionate about media and communications, and was involved in video production, graphic design, and marketing throughout college. Janie is currently working in residential life in North Carolina while continuing her work in content creation and social media.
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Teerka Baskaran
Youth Advisory Board Member
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Praveena Chenthooran
Youth Advisory Board Member
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Upayan Roy
Youth Advisory Board Member
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Kelly Wei Jin
Youth Advisory Board Member
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Ruby Zhang
Youth Advisory Board Member
Advisors and Content Reviewers
Legal Counsel
Last Updated: May 29, 2023