Leadership
The YHHAP Board oversees all YHHAP projects, manages our advocacy operations, and fosters the YHHAP volunteer community. Individually, we have each been inspired and humbled by those we serve. Together, we are fiercely committed to improving our New Haven community. We are the Spring 2026 YHHAP Board, and we look forward to seeing you in action soon.
Kate johnson
Co-director
Kate is a senior in Saybrook College from Lake Bluff, Illinois. At Yale she is majoring in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology with a certificate in French! When she is not sending out weekly YHHAP newsletters or managing YHHAP social media, she is volunteering at the HAVEN Free Clinic, helping out at the CHCV, working at a cancer genetics lab at the Yale Medical School, tutoring students in French, or serving on the Sterling Memorial Library Advisory Committee. In her free time she enjoys playing the guitar, going to a hot yoga class, or playing pickleball with her friends! Feel free to contact her at kate.johnson.kn6@yale.edu.
jones kim
YHHAP fast Co-chair
Jones is a junior in Morse College majoring in Ecology and Evolutionary biology. Outside of YHHAP, she works in a plant science lab, labels bones for the Peabody Museum Vertebrate Collection, is a Yale Engineering and Science representative for the admissions office, and tutors students from back home in Los Angeles. In her free time, she loves tending to her carnivorous plants. Feel free to reach out at jones.kim@yale.edu!
Jimmy o’connell
Co-director
Jimmy is a junior from Kansas City in Timothy Dwight College majoring in History and Economics. In addition to serving as Co-Director of YHHAP, he serves as a Dwight Hall Urban Fellow with the New Haven Fair Rent Commission and an editor with the Yale Law Journal. He is passionate about tenant rights, tennis, TD IM Table Tennis, talking with friends, alliterations, and listening to music. In his free time you, can catch him playing bananagrams, cycling, or watching reality television. Have questions about any of these things or YHHAP? You can reach him at jimmy.oconnell@yale.edu.
REgina jones
YHHAP fast Co-chair
Regina is a sophomore in Davenport College from Indianapolis, Indiana. At Yale she is majoring in Ethics, Politics, & Economics with certificates in Spanish and Human Rights. In addition to serving as YHHAP FAST Co-Chair, she writes for the Yale Daily News, The Politic and volunteers for both the Yale Prison Education Initiative and the Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association. In her free time she enjoys playing tennis and pickleball with friends, hot yoga classes, and travel. You can reach her at regina.jones.raj53@yale.edu.
Olivia wan
community engagement chair
Olivia is a sophomore in Berkeley College from Minneapolis, and she is a Neuroscience major. Outside of serving as YHHAP’s Community Engagement Chair, she is also involved with HAVEN Free Clinic, YURA, and research with Yale’s Neuroscience Department. In her free time you can catch her playing volleyball with the Club Volleyball team, or dancing with Red Lantern. Feel free to reach out at olivia.wan@yale.edu.