Our Team:

**Director of Business Operations**
Dylan Martin (he/him)
**Hometown:** Newton, MA
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major(s):** Psychology and Economics & Strategy
**Fun fact:** I write my own music

**Director of Sustainability & Storefront**
Shelby Negosian (she/her)
**Hometown:** Santa Clarita, CA
**Graduation Year:** 2026
**Major(s):** Environmental Analysis, **Minor(s):** Legal Studies
**Fun Fact:** I designed and sold my own clothing line

**Head of External Affairs**
Elise Koh (she/her)
**Hometown:** Seattle, WA
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major(s):** Environmental Analysis & Organization and Strategic Management
**Fun Fact:** I ‘ve never owned an umbrella or rain jacket until I moved to St. Louis!

**Design Associate**
Star Rothkopf (she/her)
**Hometown:** Chicago, IL
**Graduation Year:** 2026
**Major(s):** Computer Science & English
**Fun Fact:** I have the gene that makes cilantro taste like soap

**Grant Writing Associate**
Ruth Workineh (she/her)
**Hometown:** St. Louis, MO
**Graduation Year:** 2027
**Major:** Anthropology, Global Health Track
**Fun Fact:** When I zone out, I have a lazy eye

**Director of Business Development**
Mairead Burwell (she/they)
**Hometown:** New York, NY
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major(s):** Economics & Strategy, **Minor(s):** WGSS and Environmental Studies
**Fun fact:** I’ve broken my nose twice (one time while surfing!)

**Chief Financial Officer**
Grace Shen (she/her)
**Hometown:** Seattle, WA
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major(s):** Finance, **Minor(s):** Computer Science
**Fun Fact:** I’ve been vegetarian my whole life

**Blog Manager**
Ben Baisinger-Rosen (he/him)
**Hometown:** Bethesda, MD
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major(s):** Political Science, **Minor(s):** Legal Studies
**Fun Fact:** I’ve never broken a bone

**Sustainability Associate**
Kelly Kim (she/her)
**Hometown:** Dallas, TX
**Graduation Year:** 2026
**Major(s):** Anthropology: Global Health Track and Economics
**Fun Fact:** I can make really good balloon animals

**Sustainability Associate**
Alma Mitchell (she/her)
**Hometown:** San Francisco, CA
**Graduation Year:** 2027
**Major:** Undecided
**Fun Fact:** I went hiking in Patagonia and saw a flamingo in the wild!

**Director of Marketing & Design**
Anika Busick (she/her)
**Hometown:** Des Moines, IA
**Graduation Year:** 2026
**Major(s):** Marketing, **Minor(s):** Design
**Fun Fact:** My family has hosted 5 exchange students!

**Head of Recruitment**
Ella Urton (she/her)
**Hometown:** San Carlos, CA
**Graduation Year:** 2025
**Major(s):** Urban Studies, Dance, and Computer Science
**Fun fact:** I was a bookseller at Barnes and Noble

**Sustainability Associate**
Rosie Swidler (she/her)
**Hometown:** Wolfeboro, NH
**Graduation Year:** 2026
**Major(s):** PNP, **Minor(s):** French
**Fun Fact:** I know all of the US presidents in order

**Finance Associate**
Riya Sulur (she/her)
**Hometown:** Hopkinton, MA
**Graduation Year:** 2027
**Major:** Economics & Strategy
**Fun fact:** My favorite animal is a turtle

SWAP Alumni

Julia Ho, Founder

Washington University Class of 2014

"One of the most beautiful things about my experience with SWAP is that it created space for people in the community, faculty, workers, and students within and outside WashU to meet their everyday needs, share resources, and show solidarity with one another. Being part of the SWAP community and helping to start the Trading Post was really my first step towards building the Solidarity Economy St. Louis network, which is still working throughout the St. Louis area to grow an economy from the ground up that values justice, sustainability, self-determination, and cooperation." -Julia Ho

Zach Hernandez, Founder

Washington University Class of 2014

Nathan Stein, Founder

Washington University Class of 2015

Nancy Yang, Founder

Washington University Class of 2015

"SWAP was hands down the most innovative and interdisciplinary organization during my experience at WashU. You really can't help having fun and thinking creatively about our environmental impact when confronted with so much waste!" -Nancy Yang