First-Year Counselors

The First-Year Counselors (FroCos) are an integral and promiment part of Yale’s residential college system and of Yale’s advising system for first-year students.  Their general purpose is to ease the transition of incoming first-year students to the academic, social, and cultural life of Yale University.

Max Sauberman, Head FroCo

Max Sauberman is an Economics major hailing from Millburn, New Jersey. Primarily interested in management, business, and media/entertainment, Max has been deeply involved in Yale’s singing and musical theater communities. He spent this past year touring the world and performing with the Whiffenpoofs, and before that, he did the same with the Spizzwinks(?) and Glee Club. Max has also performed in many musical productions on campus and has been involved with Yale’s Shen Curriculum for musical theater. He’s actively involved in K-12 education—Max spends time video-tutoring students from all over the world and volunteers as a New Haven middle school math coach as a part of Dwight Hall’s Mathcounts Outreach Program. When not in the theater or the classroom, you can find Max studying around Evans Hall, watching his beloved Mets, catching up with the news, or unhealthily obsessing about Survivor.
 

Ben Martin

Ben Martin is a Mathematics major from Dubuque, Iowa. At Yale, he has participated in student government, played on the club soccer team, and taught in local schools. He just took a year off to study Chinese in Taipei and is interested in start-ups and technology. In his free time, he likes to run and work out, browse dank memes, and also listen to and produce music.
 
 
 
 

Chelsea Guo

Chelsea Guo is double majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) and Political Science. She is also pursuing a joint Master’s degree in MCDB. At Yale, she has served as House Manager of the Asian American Cultural Center, President of the Women’s Leadership Initiative, Head Coordinator of Chinese Adopted Siblings Program for Youth (CASPY), and Vice President of Recruitment for the Yale Panhellenic Council. She has also worked as a summer tour guide, studied abroad in Paris, conducted research at the Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Stem Cell Center, and played violin with the Berkeley and Saybrook College Orchestras. She hails from Nashville, Tennessee, and is a southerner at heart!
 

Chris Rice

Chris Rice was born in Conroe, Texas. He lived the first four years of his life in Monterrey, Mexico, his mother’s hometown, before moving back to Houston, where he was raised. At Yale, Chris majors in Political Science with a concentration in Urban Studies and is an Education Studies Scholar. He led La Unidad Latina, Lambda Upsilon Lambda, Fraternity Inc., as President for two years, recently finished his term as Executive Director of the Students for American Politics PAC, and works as a student coordinator at La Casa Cultural. Chris enjoys playing music, running, and doodling. 
 

Guadalupe De La Rosa

Guadalupe De La Rosa is an Applied Mathematics major with a concentration in Computer Science. You will rarely hear anyone call her Guadalupe because she always goes by Guada. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she knew how to play blackjack and poker before the first grade. She is the youngest of two and only the second person in her family to graduate high school and to go to college. At Yale, she is involved with La Casa Cultural, the Latinx cultural center, and she works for the Admissions Office helping to plan events like Bulldog Days. You can usually catch her hanging out with friends, joking around in the dining hall, or just chilling listening to the latest music and doing math.
 

Mikaela Rabb

Mikaela Rabb calls Nashville, Tennessee, home, even though she is from the suburbs and went to boarding school in Massachusetts. Double majoring in Global Affairs and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration, she focuses on studying women in post-conflict countries, but still stumbles over the mouthful of words in her majors. She is passionate about education and international affairs, is involved with an education program in New Haven, and has led several Model United Nations conferences around the world. A lover of music, she is involved with the Yale Spring Fling Committee, which plans Yale’s annual music festival, and she eventually wants to create a music blog. She is often found chatting away in Blue State or laughing at cute animal videos.
 

Nat Wyatt

Nat Wyatt is a double major in American Studies and Film and Media Studies hailing from The City (read: New York, New York). Here at Yale, they have been involved in all things queer, from being a Spectrum Fellow at the LGBT Resource Center and a member of Trans @ Yale, to being captain of Yale Women’s Rugby. Nat has also taught sex education in New Haven’s public schools through Community Health Educators and has travelled to both Peru and Ghana writing articles for The Globalist. Nat is always happy to talk about anything pop cultural—seriously, anything—since they have written on Harambe, Halo 5, Kanye West, Buzzfeed, and the Twilight franchise. You can find them in Willoughby’s on York drinking their coffee black and stress listening to 90’s hip-hop.
 

Nicole Sanchez Astupuma

Nicole Sanchez Astupuma is an Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major from New York City. She is very involved in the Latinx and first-gen communities on campus and has also worked with AIESEC International. She did a summer study abroad in Paris, France, and a junior spring study abroad in Peru, where she stayed this past summer to research legal and political indigenous resistance. Nicole spends her free time watching movies, eating sweets, and listening to music. You can find her teaching kids how to swim at Payne Whitney, practicing choreography for a Danceworks show, or going ham at the gym.
 

Paul Lee

Paul Lee is a Political Science major, who has spent most of his life in the New Jersey/New York/Connecticut tri-state area, but recently moved to Seoul, South Korea. He plays cello in the Yale Symphony Orchestra, organizes events with ThiNK (There’s Hope in North Korea) at Yale, and enjoys running around New Haven. Paul feels blessed by the opportunities that Yale has given him to travel abroad, including trips to Israel, Palestine, Hong Kong, Spain, Korea, Norway, Japan, and Russia, as well as a gap year studying Mandarin in Mainland China and Taiwan. He loves to learn languages and to try new foods, and attempts to wake up early enough to catch the sunrise.
 

Solon Snider

Solon Snider is a double major in Music and Theatre Studies from Severna Park, Maryland—though his heart remains in the Chicago area, where he was born. You will often find Solon falling asleep at a piano while he writes music at 4am, making various avocado-derived foods throughout the day (an obsession rooted in his time studying abroad in Peru and living next to an avocado farmer), or participating in late-night jam sessions with his keytar. At Yale, he’s involved in Hear Your Song, a music service organization, and a number of other music and theater groups on campus. After a year abroad as Director of The Whiffenpoofs, he is thrilled to return for “Supersenior” year to help form the greatest residential college community Yale will ever know.
 

Yondeen Sherpa

Yondeen was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal and is a Global Affairs major on the security track. At Yale, she has dabbled in everything from the Yale International Relations Association, to writing for Yale Daily News and Rumpus and working in the buttery. Her main activities have included serving as Fundraising and Publicity Director for Yale UNICEF, President of the International Students Organization, and a World Fellow liaison, alongside student jobs. She is passionate about human rights, especially women’s rights in developing societies, and hopes to one day work in a legal capacity in the field. In her free time, she writes songs, sings, binge watches every TV show and political satire she finds, lifts, and goes out with friends (obviously responsibly as she is a responsible Froco). She is super excited to be a Froco and to get to know first years, to help them learn from all her mistakes, like sleeping through the Harvard-Yale game the one time we actually won #sadreactsonly. She also does not usually refer to herself in third person.
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