2024 AYDN Student Council Officers
Isabella Chen – President/Chair of English club
Isabella is a high school senior who has been actively involved with AYDN since its founding in 2021. Her roles include Student Council Chair (2023-2024), Vice Chair (2022-2023), and Chair of English Club (2022-2024). Throughout her time with AYDN, Isabella has designed and taught five reading and writing workshops, organized and led summer reading challenges and a vocabulary contest, and served as a judge for a writing contest. Additionally, she organized a high school conference over the summer to help students transition into high school. For more than two years, she has also edited and provided feedback on writing submissions from elementary and middle school students in AYDN’s yearlong writing club, helping young writers refine their skills.
Martin Fu – Vice President/Chair of Volunteer management and training
Martin is a high school senior and has been a part of AYDN since his freshman year. During the past three years, Martin has taught multiple classes ranging from Algebra 1 to AP World History. He also has many influential roles including being the Vice Chair of the AYDN student council (2022 – 2024), facilitating the training curriculum of our new volunteers. Over the past three years Martin has trained and mentored over 50 new volunteers expanding our program nationwide. Recently, he also is sharing responsibilities with our Instagram account which is still growing. With over 90 volunteers and hundreds of students (even internationally), AYDN is growing fast under our talented board members including himself.
Elsa Han – Vice President/Chair of Operation Planning and Organization
Elsa is a rising junior from San Diego, CA. She’s always been interested in writing, having numerous awards nanopublications under her name. Additionally, she plays the viola in orchestra and is team manager of her state-finalist Color guard.
Honglin Liu – Chair of Activities
Honglin is a freshman from Dallas, TX, studies at School of Science and Engineering. He has been teaching for AYDN for 3 years now, with over 300 hours of teaching time. Twice TMSCA science championship qualifier. Allen Eagles ice hockey club player, USA Hockey referee, honor band clarinet player. He enjoys cubing whenever he has time. Studying may not be top of your fun-things-to-do-list, but we still can make it more enjoyable.