Samantha Major studied business management at Brooklyn College but has always loved wellness and holistic healing. At Yinova, Samantha oversees all three of our clinics to ensure they are running smoothly. She is passionate about the art of acupuncture and believes it helps us to become self-aware of our bodies and the world around us. She hopes to encourage others to take their personal wellness into their own hands; helping them achieve awareness of self, as well as mental and physical wellness.

After graduating from Florida State University with a degree in English, Chris Farrell moved to New York to start a punk rock band. Learning bookkeeping to support himself, he worked with all sorts of small businesses, eventually coming to Yinova as a consultant. Given the chance to join Yinova full time, he is delighted to use his skills as a number-cruncher helping the team make positive change in the lives of our patients. In his spare time, he still makes music with his band, A Vanishing Breed, and writes about the arts for the BKLYNER blog.

Emma Thake is a graduate of Bard College where she studied Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis on society’s changing perceptions of the body and it’s political implication.

As Yinova’s Director of Marketing & Media, Emma loves finding new ways to build the Yinova community and help everyone associated with Yinova stay connected. She focuses her time on informing patients and press alike on the benefits of acupuncture and Chinese medicine and loves being able to empower people with information about their bodies and their health. Emma oversees our information-rich website, maintains our social media presence (Instagram | Facebook | Pinterest), edits the Yinova blog, and produces our newsletters. She also manages our patient relations, talks to the press, organizes our speaker’s series, and handles events.

If you’re a member of the press and want to know more about what we do or would like some background information for a story, she’s your girl! Feel free to reach out to her anytime: emma@yinova.com