# Officers Current HEJC leadership: Abdul Alfaraidi, President Fall 2024 - present Sofía Edgar, President Fall 2024 - present Past HESC leadership Tommy George, President Fall 2024 - 2025 Eric Fell, Co-President Spring 2021 - 2023 Eliza Spear, Co-President Spring 2021 - 2023 Mandy Liu, Vice President Spring 2022 - 2023 Eric Fell, President Spring 2021 - Fall 2021 Eliza Spear, Vice President Spring 2021 - Fall 2021 Amos Meeks, President Spring 2020 - Fall 2020 Eric Fell, Vice President Spring 2020 - Fall 2020 Amos Meeks, Vice President Fall 2019 Christina Chang, President Fall 2017 - Fall 2019 Dan Pollack, Vice President Fall 2017 - Spring 2019 Robert Gustafson, Co-President Fall 2014 - Spring 2017 Andy Greenspon, Co-President Fall 2014 - Spring 2017 Daniel Thorpe - Co-President Fall 2014 - Spring 2017 Lauren Hartle, Co-President mid Spring 2012 - Spring 2014 Jason Munster, Co-President Fall 2013 - Spring 2014 Kristian Bergen, Co-President 2010-2013 Daniel Recht, Co-President Fall 2010 - Spring 2012 Kate Dennis, Co-President 2009-2010 Josh Goldman, Leader and Chief Archiver 2007-2011 Liz Main, Leader/Member Paul Hess, Leader/Member Jason Rugolo, Leader and Resident Contrarian 2006-2010 Jeremy Munday, Leader/Member Suni Shah, Leader/Member, Early Archiver and First Website/ Logo Creator 2005-2007 Ben Lee, Early Leader/Member/Conspirator Jacob Krich, Early Leader/Member/Conspirator 2006+ Alex Johnson, Early Leader/Member/Conspirator 2005+ Mark Winkler, Founding Leader/Member/Conspirator 2005+ Ernst van Nierop, Founding Leader/Member/Conspirator 2005-2009 David Romps, Co-Founder 2005+ Jeff Bielicki, Co-Founder 2005+ Kurt Zenz House, Founder 2005-2009 Prof. Dan Schrag, Faculty Advisor 2005+ Prof. Mike Aziz, Faculty Advisor 2005+ About the early days: “My recollection (subject to a high error rate!) is that HEJC was formed by Kurt House, Jeff Bielicki, and myself in 2005. The three of us shared the big office in HUCE starting in May of 2005. Kurt took the lead and would rightfully be referred to as the first president, and funding was provided by Kurt's advisor, Dan Schrag. From what I recall, we were quickly joined in our efforts by Ernst, followed shortly by Alex J, Jacob K, and others. If there was any HEJC-type thing in existence before 2005, I certainly did not know about it. My recollection is that Kurt named it HEJC.” - David Romps “In the years of HEJC - which had a profound impact on me in only positive ways - I recall it mostly as reading papers right before showing up, and then diving straight into the reading material during the meeting by asking Jacob to explain figure 3 :-) We came up with topics of interest as a group, and divvied up which person or persons should rake together papers on them, and that was about it. Generous support from Dan Schrag and HUCE for the pizza and access to interesting Energy-related speakers!” - Ernst van Nierop “For a while there it was a small, sad group of forgotten souls… we didn't even have pizza. For what it's worth, I also second Ernst on it not really being super organized. Felt grass roots to me. Don't recall any real kind of "president" activities, other than just making sure we had papers, pizza, and presenters to take lead on a paper or topic.” - Jason Rugolo