
Sean B.
Sean graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. After teaching in Oklahoma City at Odyssey Leadership Academy, he went on to earn his MFA in Poetry at Boston University.

Madeline S.
Madeline graduating first in her class from The George Washington University Law School. She then clerked on the US District Court for the District of Columbia before working as a litigator at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan. Recently, she joined the National Labor Relations Board as an Attorney-Advisor.

Matthew S.
Matthew attended Emory University, where he majored in English and Creative Writing and won several student film awards. He is currently completing a degree in acting at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow.

Eleanor S.
Eleanor is an MBA/Masters in Computer Science dual degree candidate at the University of Chicago/Booth School of Business. Previously, she received her Bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University.

Wilton
Wilton is pursuing an MD at Yale School of Medicine (expected graduation in 2026). Previously, he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Aleks
Aleks graduated from Yale with a double major in History and Religious Studies. He is now finishing his MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Columbia University, exploring both New York and the History of the Church through the study of Medieval and Inquisitorial manuscripts.

Jack Ru.
Jack completed his BA at Wake Forest University and his MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is now a surgery resident at Georgetown Hospital.

Elisabeth
Elisabeth attended Cornell University, majoring in Communication and minoring in Human Development and Fine Art. After graduating magna cum laude, she is now a PhD Candidate in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Helen G.
Helen graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University with a dual degree in International/Global Studies and French/Francophone Studies, as well as a minor in East Asian Studies. After working in Shanghai, China for 5 years, she returned to Massachusetts to pursue her Masters of Education in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Joshua A.
Josh grew up in Maryland and is now completing a Master’s of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He also has an undergraduate political science degree from UMD, where he graduated cum laude. After his master’s, Josh will start this fall at NYU law. He hopes to eventually work in public-interest law.

Jalen
A Florida native, Jalen traded sunshine for scholastics and is now an MD and MPP Candidate at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School respectively. He spent his undergrad at Dartmouth College where he majored in Ecology.

Isabel T.
Isa designed an independent major at Williams College titled “Critical Health Studies,” combining philosophy, sociology, and anthropology with the goal of complementing her science-oriented pre-medical education with a humanist and critical exploration of health and medicine. After graduating with Highest Honors, she is now an entering MD-PhD student at the University of Michigan where she will complete her doctoral work in sociocultural anthropology.

Beth C.
Beth graduated from Columbia Business School in 2019 as a Forte Fellow and Columbia Fellow, and holds her BA in English Literature and Italian from Middlebury College in Vermont. She is currently a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Adobe.

Baoqing
Baoqing was born and raised in Beijing, where she graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University with a BA in English, before moving to the US in 2014. In the US, Baoqing taught at the Western Michigan University before getting her MA in teaching Chinese at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Baoqing is currently a lecturer of Chinese at Boston University.

Jack Ra.
Jack graduated from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, with a BA in Chinese and a BA in Linguistics, graduating summa cum laude in both degrees. During undergrad, Jack received the Global Ambassador Summer Program Scholarship and studied at National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. Jack is currently pursuing his PhD in Linguistics at Harvard University.

Harrison S.
Harrison attended Rutgers University and graduated cum laude with a double major in Mathematics and Music. After Rutgers, Harrison continued to train voice; he was accepted into the MM Voice Program at The Mannes School of Music where he is currently earning a post-graduate professional opera diploma.

Marta
Marta is an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. Prior to matriculating at Harvard, Marta headed to Bonn, Germany as a Fulbright scholar. There, she conducted research related to Parkinson's disease and expanded her German language skills.

Camille
Camille attended UChicago to earn her BA in Psychology and Economics. She's currently pursuing a dual Master in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School and Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business.

Anna W.
After graduating Johns Hopkins University in 2014, Anna earned two master’s degrees in Social Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh and in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. She next earned her JD from Yale in 2021, and is now pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at Johns Hopkins.

Wony
Wony holds a PhD in Applied Analysis at Carnegie Mellon University, specializing in the field of dynamical systems and partial differential equations. His thesis is about nonconvex optimization techniques using underlying geometric structures.

Eddy Y.
Eddy graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics and a minor in Marketing/Psychology. Eddy went on to get his teaching certification in secondary mathematics from Penn’s Graduate School of Education and currently works as a middle and high school math teacher in South Philadelphia.

Katie M.
Katie graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a double major in Political Science and Philosophy. Now, she is pursuing a Master of Public Policy degree at the Harvard Kennedy School, a program which focuses on empirical skills like economics and statistics for the purpose of applying them to creating effective public policy.

Sunny
Sunny is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she spent seven years researching neurodegenerative diseases. Notably, she was a part of a group studying cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease which, in 2021, entered a Phase I clinical trial for patients with advanced Parkinson's disease

Noah M.
Noah graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University, majoring in Physics and Mathematics. Currently obtaining his PhD in Physics from Harvard University, he studies black holes, quantum gravity, and celestial holography.

Smriti K.
Smriti is currently a PhD Candidate at Harvard studying Buddhist philosophy of mind and epistemology. While pursuing her PhD, she has consistently scored above divisional average on overall instructor quality and has earned several Certificates of Distinction in Teaching.

Arjun K.
Arjun graduated from Claremont McKenna College in LA with degree in Economics and International Relations, along with a specialization in Finance. After graduation, he worked in investment banking in New York, followed by a corporate development role at a private equity portfolio company. He is pursuing his MBA at Columbia University.

Isaiah B.
A lifelong Midwesterner, Isaiah attended Iowa State University, graduating summa cum laude with honors (Phi Beta Kappa). After graduating, Isaiah committed a year of service as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently a first-year Master in Public Policy Candidate at the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Pedro G.
Pedro is a 2nd-year medical student at UCSF. As a native Spanish speaker, he started studying Mandarin in middle school for his foreign language requirement. Following this passion, he graduated from Stanford University with a BA in East Asian Studies, focusing on the Chinese healthcare system.

Haley V.
Haley went to Bryn Mawr College, double majoring in Mathematics and Chemistry and completing an AB/MA degree in Chemistry. She was recognized as a 2018 Barry Goldwater Scholar for her efforts in and out of the laboratory. Her dual passions for biophysical and chemical pathogens research led her to the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program, where she is currently a NIH-funded MSTP student in the Health Sciences and Technology track.

Gloria Y.
Gloria is a writer in San Francisco. She received her MA and PhD in History from University of California, Berkeley and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in History and Philosophy from NYU.

Connor B.
Connor graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with a degree in Biochemistry and minor in Spanish Literature. He next engaged in a two-year fellowship in South Africa, where he worked in the NGO sector investigating the barriers to care faced by individuals living with HIV/AIDS. He is currently pursuing his MD through Harvard Medical School’s Pathways Program.

Trey
Trey graduated from Stanford with honors with a BA in International Relations and an MS in Community Health and Prevention Research. He was not initially on the pre-med track at Stanford, so he completed a “career-changer” post-baccalaureate program at Bryn Mawr College. He is currently a student at Harvard Medical School.

Yen
Yen majored in Biology with a minor in Chemistry and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University with a 3.93 GPA. Currently, she is a DMD candidate at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and is passionate about reducing oral health inequities.

Nick S.
Nick graduated from Columbia University with degrees in English and Economics. He next earned a teaching certificate and moved to Barcelona to teach English. Since 2003, he’s been teaching all over the world, usually spending winters in Berlin and summers in Barcelona.

Faith L.
Faith graduated magna cum laude from the Honors Program at American University with a BA in Environmental Studies and Economics and a minor in International Studies. Faith is also an alum of the London School of Economics and Political Science. Now a second-year student at Yale Law School (YLS), Faith is an NAACP Legal Defense Fund Earl Warren Scholar and a YLS Connecticut Bar Foundation Fellow.

Alyssa R.
Alyssa studied Government and East Asian Studies at Harvard University, where she graduated magna cum laude and received the Eric Firth Prize for her senior thesis. She is looking forward to attending law school in the fall of 2022, and she has been accepted to Yale Law School and Stanford Law School.

Nathan B.
Nathan is a lecturer in The Writing Seminars, the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his MFA at Hopkins, and also attended Emory University in Atlanta, majoring in English literature and creative writing and graduating summa cum laude.

Avina
Avina graduated summa cum laude and received her BA in Cell Biology and Neuroscience with minors in Psychology and Spanish at Rutgers University. She's currently an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School.

Lisa A.
Lisa attended Cornell University where she graduated magna cum laude in Chemistry and Chemical Biology. After Cornell, she worked at Procter and Gamble making your favorite household laundry supplies! She is now a PhD candidate in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology program at Harvard.

Mariam D.
Mariam majored in Biology and minored in Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. After graduating in 2020, Mariam spent a year as a Schwarzman Scholar, researching her thesis on the health impacts of elderly caretaking policy and patterns in China and receiving a Masters of Management in Global Affairs. She is currently a MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.

Sarge
John has been a professional writer, editor, and teacher for almost 40 years, working with everyone from students to corporate executives to help them get their good ideas down on paper in a clear and comprehensible way. He has taught at St. Luke’s School in New Canaan, CT., and at Moses Brown School, in Providence, RI.

Erin F.
Erin holds a degree in Astrophysics from Columbia University, and she is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and fifth year PhD student in Princeton's Astrophysical Sciences department. Her current work is in support of the NASA Dragonfly mission.

Udodiri
Udodiri is a PhD Candidate in History of Science at Harvard University; she previously earned a BA in the same field at Harvard College. Her honors thesis on the biomedicalization of Civil Rights Protest in the 1960s and 1970s received the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize.

Bex
Bex majored in theatre and minored in creative writing at Northwestern University, graduating summa cum laude. After settling in Chicago, Bex won a prestigious Luminarts Cultural Foundation fellowship in creative writing. They are now an MFA candidate at Hamline University, where they study writing for children and young adults.

Sarah R.
Sarah graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude with an Honors English degree from Bates. After taking her Fulbright Scholarship to teach ESL in the Czech Republic, she began her Masters of Arts in Teaching at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.

Dmitry K.
Dmitry studied French, German, and Political Science at Middlebury College, graduating magna cum laude and a Dana Scholar. Three semesters studying abroad in Paris and Berlin solidified his lifelong love of Europe. Subsequently, he completed a Master’s in Development Economics at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Wyatt S.
Wyatt holds an AB from Kenyon College and an MA from NYU, both in English. He's currently a PhD student in Harvard's English department.

Simran
Simran is pursuing a combined MD/PhD in the Harvard-MIT MD program and Immunology PhD program. Previously, she was a research technician at Fred Hutch, where she helped design novel protein-based cancer therapeutics and a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine.

Emily F.
Emily is a PhD candidate at Columbia University in Religious Studies. She teaches Western and East Asian philosophy classes at SUNY Purchase, where she earned her BA in philosophy.

Hunter B.
Hunter studied Physics and Computer Science at Harvard College. In 2019, the Chicago Cubs drafted Hunter, and he’s been playing pro baseball ever since.

Karishma
Karishma graduated from Tufts University in 2013 with a major in Political Science and History. More recently, she graduated from Penn Law where she focused on Health law and Policy.

Peter B.
Peter attended Boston College as a history major, before joining Teach For America, where he was a middle school teacher and department chair. He holds an MBA from Columbia.

Kellen H.
Kellen holds a BA from Princeton in History & African American Studies, and a PhD from Columbia in History. She was a Predoctoral Fellow at UPenn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and is now working on her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn State University.

Hollis P.
Hollis holds a BA in Rhetoric and a BS in Environmental Economics and Policy from UC Berkeley. He is presently an MA Candidate in Architecture at Harvard University.

Drew J.
Drew studied Biochemistry at Middlebury College, graduating summa cum laude. He worked as an AmeriCorps fellow teaching math before pursuing his MD at Boston University. He is now a second year Internal Medicine resident Brigham and Womenâs Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Adam Y.
Adam holds a BA in Politics (Pomona College) and is a first-year student at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. He is heavily involved in the American Student Dental Association and is interested in leveraging his ASDA connections and non-traditional path to dentistry to help pre-dents.

Matthew G.
Matthew holds an AB in Government from Harvard and a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. He's a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Trinh T.
Trinh holds a BA in Political Science from Yale and an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She currently works at a think tank, where she researches and writes about immigration and refugee policy.

Juliet R.
Juliet studied Playwriting and Biology at Northwestern University with a focus on Biochemistry and Biophysics. She worked for several years as a research scientist after graduation, eventually pursuing an MS in Biomedical Engineering at Northwestern

Peter T.
Peter earned his BA in Chemistry and Biochemistry and a minor in Mathematics at Connecticut College. He is now a 4th year medical student at The University of Vermont. He will be applying for a residency in Orthopedic Surgery.

Hudson L.
Hudson earned an AB in Physics from Princeton. Next, Hudson worked as a quantitative trader and researcher at DC Energy. Now, Hudson has returned to studying physics as an astrophysics graduate student at MIT's LIGO labs.

Jonathan L.
Jonathan earned his BA in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He then completed an MA in the Social Sciences at the University of Chicago, before beginning a PhD in History at UC Berkley.

Carrie S.
Carrie graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College, majoring in molecular and cellular biology and minoring in social anthropology. She's now pursuing her MD at Weill Cornell Medicine, with plans to apply for an internal medicine residency.

Seth S.
Seth earned his BA from the University of Michigan, where his senior thesis on Brazilian welfare politics won the Sahlins Award for best thesis in the Social Sciences. After working as a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant, he began his PhD in Political Science at Harvard University.

Alice Wa.
Alice studied English Literature at Wellesley College and graduated cum laude with honors. Currently, Alice is studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, specializing in Teaching and Curriculum. She's conducting her practicum at Arlington High School, where she teaches 9th grade English.

Christopher M.
Christopher holds a BA in History and a minor in Chinese (Mandarin) from Chapel Hill, an MA in Security Studies from Kansas State University, and an MA and PhD in History from UVA. At UVA, he won the Class of 1985 Fellowship for Creative Teaching.

Grey A.
Grey received his BA in English from Reed College, and his MA in French and his PhD in History from Yale. His dissertation, published in French in 2018 and under contract in English with Verso Books, examines the military coup that returned General Charles de Gaulle to power.

Seamus C.
Seamus graduated magna cum laude and as a member of the Alpha Sigma Nu Honor society with a degree in English from Boston College. He is currently an MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he is focusing on his interests in startups and technology.

Cecilia L.
Cecilia has lived in 8 different countries and speaks 4 languages fluently. She attended SciencesPo in Paris, where she received an undergraduate degree in Political Science and a dual graduate degree in Finance and Strategy. She's now pursuing an MBA in Tech & Strategy at Columbia Business School.

John L.
John is currently a Quantitative Researcher and Educator; he's developing a risk web application in R language to realize the volatilities in US and foreign asset classes. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master's in Data Science.

Charlie T.
Charlie earned a BA in Political and Social Thought and English from UVA. Next, he earned his master's degrees in English and in History of Science, Medicine, and Technology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He is now a PhD candidate in English Literature at Harvard.

Nicolas T.
Nico majored in Public Policy and International Relations and minored in Global and Public Health at Princeton. He now lives in Boston, where he is completing his MD at Harvard Medical School and working on research examining financial barriers in cancer care.

Cameron H.
Cameron graduated summa cum laude with an AB in Neuroscience and a minor in Linguistics from Princeton, earning election to Phi Beta Kappa. He is currently pursuing an MD degree at Harvard Medical School with the eventual goal of working in academic medicine.

Allegra S.
Allegra spent 5 years working in commercial and investment banking at JP Morgan in New York, Houston, and London. She completed a Master's in Education Policy & Management at Harvard, and then pursued her MBA at MIT Sloan, where she's now working on a fintech startup.

Cassandra G.
Cassandra attended UVA on a four-year, full cost of attendance scholarship with a double major in Human Biology and Spanish. After graduating in May 2020, she went straight into the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, with dreams of becoming an adult or pediatric oncologist.

Cristina A.
Cristina holds a PhD in Linguistics from Harvard, an MS in Cognitive and Decision Sciences from University College London, and BAs in Applied and Computational Mathematics and Linguistics from the University of Southern California. Currently, she works as a forensic linguist.

Cyrus A.
Cyrus is currently a second-year medical student at Harvard Medical School in the MD-PhD program. Previously, he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Gabriel P.
Gabriel graduated magna cum laude with degrees in Math (GPA 3.96/4) and Physics (GPA 3.98/4) from Williams College. He is now a graduate student in Physics at Harvard with the Harvard Quantum Initiative Fellowship.

Jenna M.
Jenna graduated summa cum laude with a dual degree in Neuroscience and French from Tulane. She received the Louis Bush Medal of honor from the department of French & Italian Studies. She next earned her MD at LSU, and is proud to be a neurology resident at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bill K.
Bill is the bestselling author of seven books. His undergrad degree is from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins. History and biography are his fields, but he's helped improve both student and adult writing for twenty years across a wide range of subjects.

DM
DM graduated with honors from the University of Chicago, and completed a Master's degree at Yale University in the Department of Political Science, where they studied the rise of mass incarceration in the US. They have also worked as an academic researcher on books, textbooks, and TV shows.

Rebecca P.
After graduating magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University with a degree in History, Rebecca served as a Teach for America corps member. She earned a Master's in Education at Fordham University before attending NYU School of Law. She is currently a civil rights attorney in New York.

Alicia C.
Alicia is a PhD student in Linguistics at NYU. She graduated magna cum laude from Washington University in St. Louis, with a BA in Linguistics and Data Science and a BA in Spanish with a minor in Music.

Julia R.
Julia graduated summa cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in Philosophy and Comparative Lit, and earned an MA in Theological Studies from Harvard. She is now a Religion PhD candidate at Harvard and a historian.

Tim L.
Tim holds an MA, MPhil, and PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. He earned his Bachelor's in English and Classical Languages from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

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Debbie
Debbie is currently a PhD candidate in Classical Studies at Columbia University. She holds a BA in Classics from College of the Holy Cross and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.

Simone
Simone graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University. She is now in the Master of Public Health program at Columbia, pursuing a specialization in Epidemiology.

Raj
Raj holds a BA in Applied Mathematics with a minor in Global Health and Health Policy from Harvard (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). He is now an MD/PhD student at Harvard-MIT.

Alex
Alex earned her BA in History from Brown University, and her MA in Science and Technology Studies from Oxford University, where she was a Baker Scholar. Currently, she is a Master's student at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.

Naama
Naama holds a BA in Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from Harvard (magna cum laude), an MPhil from Oxford in Oriental Studies and an MFA in Acting from DePaul. She has over three decades of tutoring experience.

Michaela
Michaela is an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT. She holds a BS in Biochemistry with minors in Philosophy and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Colorado (summa cum laude), where she was an NCAA Division I, All-American track athlete.

Alice
Alice earned her PhD at MIT in Mechanical Engineering on the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. She received her Bachelor's in Physics from University of Chicago. Currently, she teaches Engineering at MIT.

Aisha
Aisha is a second-year dental student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Previously, she graduated summa cum laude with a degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania where she developed and implemented Dental Bridges.

Ari
Ariana is pursuing her JD at Columbia Law. She holds a BA in International Relations and Asian Studies (Dartmouth College). Before law school, she worked as a paralegal in international trade remedy litigation.

Alex
Alex received her PhD from Harvard University in Clinical Science and her BA in Clinical Psychology from Tufts University. Currently, she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stress and Development Lab at Harvard.

Raksit
Raksit earned his BA in Linguistics at Yale (Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude), and is now a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. His research focuses on understanding language change by carrying out experiments using laboratory techniques.

Sophia
Sophia holds a BA in English (Williams College) and an MS in Education from Johns Hopkins. After serving as a Princeton in Asia Fellow, she taught English in Baltimore Public Schools for four years.

Joe
Joe earned an MBA from the Sloan School of Management, an MS from the Harvard-MIT Department of Health Sciences and Technology, and a BA in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard. Currently, he works as a healthcare consultant.