Peer Academic Advisors (PAAs)

Peer Academic Advisors (PAAs) are an integral part of the advising community at Rice, they live right alongside you in your residential college! Your PAAs serve as familiar and approachable contacts who can answer questions and point you in the right direction if they cannot answer a detailed question.

More information can be found at: oaa.rice.edu

Head PAAs

Josie Feeney ‘25

jmf11@rice.edu

Major: Chemistry, Spanish & Portuguese; Pre-Med

Minor: Biochemistry & Cell Biology

NICO MOTTA ‘25

nam11@rice.edu

Major: Business; Pre-Grad

Minor: Data Science

ANA PARK ‘25

ap104@rice.edu

Majors: Biosciences; Pre-Med, Pre-Health

Minor: Sociology

Baker PAAs

Michael Garcia ‘26 | O-week PAA

mdg16@rice.edu

Major: Business, History; Pre-Law

Minor: Politics, Law and Social Thought

wiley liou ‘26 | o-week paa

wl76@rice.edu

Major: Biosciences; Pre-Health

Minors: Data Science

Chris Han ‘26

ch106@rice.edu

Majors: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Riya Pitmadi ‘26

rrp12@rice.edu

Major: Mathematical Economic Analysis; Pre-Grad

Kartik Singh ‘25

ks114@rice.edu

Majors: Physics, Mathematics

Celeste Uribe ‘26

cau5@rice.edu

Majors: English, Political Science; Pre-Law

Minor: Politics, Law & Thought

Sehyun Jung ‘27

jj118@rice.edu

Majors: Neuroscience; Pre-Med

Minor: Statistics minor, Medical Humanities

Oriana Tang ‘26 | O-week paa

ot11@rice.edu

Major: Neuroscience; Pre-Med

Minor: Biochemistry & Cell Biology

Certificate: Spanish

Lavinia Barker ‘26

lb57@rice.edu

Major: Mechanical Engineering

Minor: History

Emma Codianne ‘25

erc5@rice.edu

Majors: Physics, Asian Studies

Minor: Mathematics

Annie Ribordy ‘25

amr24@rice.edu

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Business

Sarah wang ‘25

sjw10@rice.edu

Majors: Business, Computational and Applied Mathematics

Eman Fayyaz ‘27

ef33@rice.edu

Majors: Bioengineering; Pre-Grad

Minor: Global Health Technologies minor

Arunima Jaiswal ‘26 | o-week paa

asj5@rice.edu

Major: Neuroscience; Pre-Med

Minor: Creative Writing, Data Science

Ainsley Ganti ‘26

asg15@rice.edu

Major: Chemistry, Earth, Environment and Planetary Services; Pre-Grad

Certificate: Language and Intercultural Communication - French

Lynn-Chi Nguyen ‘25

lhn3@rice.edu

Major: Health Sciences; Pre-Med

Minor: Medical Humanities

Aleena Ahmad ‘27

afa8@rice.edu

Majors: Social Policy Analysis, Cognitive Science; Pre-Law

Shammas Ahmed ‘27

sa187@rice.edu

Major: Computational and Applied Mathematics; Pre-Grad

Karen Zheng ‘25

kqz2@rice.edu

Majors: Biosciences; Pre-Med