PAL Application

Meet the Peer Academic Leaders 

Marshall Peer Academic Leaders (PALs) are academic student leaders and mentors. They help students enhance their mastery and understanding of course concepts, clarify course content, and help students improve their academic performance. PALs demonstrate a mastery of the subject material and can present a model of thinking about, organizing, and understanding course content.

Alex Tse

Alex Tse (He/him/his)

PAL for:
ECON 351

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
I'm majoring in Business Administration and minoring in Environmental Studies!

Are you involved in any student organizations?
MOVE (Marshall Outreach Volunteer Entrepreneurs), Tommy's Tours, Christian Challenge, USC Garden Club

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Tustin, CA

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Survivor, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, any Food Network show (I love cooking!)

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
And Then There Were None, Tuesdays with Morrie, Harry Potter

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Kash Olumide- Fusika

Kash Olumide-Fusika (she/her/hers)

PAL for:
ECON 351

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Administration and Human Biology

Are you involved in any student organizations?
Not yet

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Nigeria

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
The Act, Outer Banks and Grey's Anatomy

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
We Bought A House and Homegoing

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Joanna Ge

Joanna Ge (She/Her/Hers)

PAL for:
BUAD 306

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Administration and Accounting with a minor in Computer Science

Are you involved in any student organizations?
VITA, Mock Trial, Trogons

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Shanghai, China

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Person of Interest, Criminal Minds

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, To Kill a Mockingbird, Journey Under the Midnight Sun

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Minjoo Koo

Minjoo Koo (She/Her/Hers)

PAL for:
BUAD 310

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Administration, Art History

Are you involved in any student organizations?
WYSE (Women and Youth Supporting Each Other)

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Seoul, South Korea

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Friends

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Persuasion

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Becky Tian

Becky Tian (She/Her/Hers)

PAL for:
BUAD 306

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Administration

Are you involved in any student organizations?
Global Investment Society

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Liuzhou, Guangxi, China

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
K-drama: What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
Mere Christianity; How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes; Boundaries

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Winnie Liu

Winnie Liu (She/Her/Hers)

PAL for:
ECON 351 & BUAD 310

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Major: Business Admin w Finance Concentration, Minor: Data Science

Are you involved in any student organizations?
GIS, TIS, Data Science Club, Alpha Phi Sorority,

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Dublin, CA

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Selling Sunset, Bridgerton

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
Atomic Habits, Make Your Damn Bed (podcast), TED Talks Daily

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Manav Agarwal

Manav Agarwal (He/Him/His)

PAL for:
ECON 352

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Administration

Are you involved in any student organizations?
Global Investment Society

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
India

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Peaky Blinders, Anything Marvel

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham, Impaulsive by Logan Paul

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Ziran Qi

Ziran Qi (she/her)

PAL for:
ECON 351

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Major: Business Administration with Finance concentration, Minor: Data Science

Are you involved in any student organizations?
Trojan Investing Society

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Cupertino, CA

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Wednesday, You

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
Book: The Exit, A Little Life, Podcast: Crime Junkie

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Joshua Ong

Josh Ong (he/him/his)

PAL for:
ECON 351

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Major: Business Administration (currently on the pre-engineering track for CSBA); Minor: Applied Analytics

Are you involved in any student organizations?
Global Investing Society, Techie, Trojan Chess Club, APASS

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Penang, Malaysia

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
F1 Drive to Survive

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
The Martian (by Andy Weir), Kite Runner (by Khaled Hosseini), Julius Caesar (by William Shakespeare)

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Kai Moore

Kai Moore (he/him/his)

PAL for:
BAUD 306

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Admin. (Spec. Finance)

Are you involved in any student organizations?
I am involved in Trojans FC, as their director of finance.

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Los Angeles, California

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Reacher

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
Books: 1. The Three Musketeers, 2. All the Light We Cannot See, 3. Battlefield Earth

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Sharma Sanya

Sanya Sharma (she/her/hers)

PAL for:
ECON 352

What are you currently majoring, minoring/specializing in?
Business Administration, Minor: Visual Narrative Art

Are you involved in any student organizations?
MOVE, MWLB, TCC

Where would you consider your hometown? (city, state)
Dubai, UAE

What show(s) are you currently binge watching?
Crown, Firefly lane, Emily in Paris

Your top 3 favorite Podcasts/Books?
'A brush with' podcast, 'The Daily podcast', 'My life in Full' by Indra Nooyi

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