Our Board & Advisory Board

Bailey Ulbricht is the founder of Paper Airplanes. She currently serves as the founding Executive Director of the Stanford Humanitarian Program, a Stanford Law School research initiative focused on the legal and policy impacts of technologies deployed during humanitarian crises, including—but not limited to—conflict settings. Before coming to Stanford, she served as a Fulbright English teaching assistant in Turkey and a volunteered with refugee communities on the Turkish-Syrian border, where she was selected as a Davis Peace Fellow. Bailey holds master’s degrees, in Islamic Law and Islamic Studies, from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She earned her BA in International Relations, magna cum laude, from Carleton College and her JD from Stanford Law School.

After organizing his high school classmates to tutor with Paper Airplanes in 2016, Chase Small served as the founding manager of the Youth Exchange Program for over a year. He has since conducted research on the role of social media in geopolitical events at the Stanford Internet Observatory and currently works at SentinelOne, a cybersecurity firm. Chase holds a BA in International Relations and Data Science from Stanford University.

Hana Horiuchi recently graduated from Carleton College with a BA in Political Science and International Relations and serves as secretary on the Paper Airplanes board. Although she grew up in Queens, New York, she has spent nearly every summer in Chennai, India, and, as a result, has been involved with India-based education NGOs such as the Guild of Service and Each One Teach One. In New York, she tutored low-income students at her local public library.

Hana was first introduced to Paper Airplanes at Carleton, where she was also involved in student government, Mortar Board, and the planning committee for Carleton’s 10-year plan.

Cayanne Chachati joined Paper Airplanes’ board in 2023 after serving as the Women in Tech Program Coordinator from 2020 to 2021. Cayanne is currently pursuing her JD at Stanford Law School.

She interned at the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project the summer of her first year of law school.

Before law school, Cayanne worked at Analysis Group, where she conducted data and economic analyses in preparation for litigation. Cayanne graduated cum laude with a BA in Government from Harvard College. She was born and raised in Aleppo, Syria and lived in Lebanon from 2012 to 2016. Cayanne is fluent in Arabic, French, and English.

Nate Edwards joined the Paper Airplanes board in 2025. He is currently a Program Officer with the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just, and Inclusive Societies program at New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC). At CIC, Nate primarily supports the Justice for All initiative, focusing on leveraging justice as a tool to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He oversees initiatives on access to justice for displaced populations, advocacy for people-centered justice, and people-centered climate justice. Additionally, he contributes to Pathfinders’ Justice in Conflict-Affected Settings portfolio. Nate is also a research consultant with Telescope, a nonprofit focused on the societal impacts of innovation in the technology sector. Nate has a background in nonprofit management consulting and experience working on global and regional initiatives and projects in the United States, Brazil, Moldova, and Jordan. He holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Carleton College.

Kelsey Freeman is an award-winning writer, policy researcher, and advocate focused on Indigenous rights, migration, and climate change—with particular expertise in U.S. immigration policy. Her book, No Option but North, is based on her research on immigration as a Fulbright Fellow in Mexico and won the 2021 Colorado Book Award. She has since spoken across the country on immigration policy and has written for various outlets. Kelsey recently completed a master’s degree in International Policy and Environment and Resources at Stanford University, where she was a Knight Hennessy Scholar. At Stanford, she researched international climate displacement and organized a course and conference on climate migration.

Kelsey has also focused on Native American affairs for the past 10 years and has a strong track record of developing programs to support tribes. She previously worked at Central Oregon Community College, where she collaborated with tribes across Oregon to start a college-readiness program for Native American high school students. She also facilitated workshops on equity, advised the college’s Dreamers’ Club, and served on the City of Bend Accessibility Advisory Committee. She is the founder of Powershift, a Stanford initiative to support tribes in renewable energy pursuits, and worked with Nevada’s green bank to help develop their tribal clean energy program. Kelsey currently serves as a fellow at the California Energy Commission in Tribal Affairs, where she works to support CEC’s tribal energy policies and engagement.