Victor W.
Victor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize for fiction. He also earned an MA in philosophy from the University of Miami where he was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award, along with the Martha S. Weeks Graduate Excellence Award, and the Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award in philosophy.
Ilani
Ilani is a PhD Candidate in Mathematics at MIT. As an undergraduate at MIT previously, they graduated with a 5.0 GPA and an honorable mention for the Schafer Prize.
Shaan
Shaan is an advanced PhD student in Clinical Psychology at Harvard University. She previously completed a BA in Psychology at San Diego State University.
JT
JT graduated magna cum laude from Yale with distinction in his major of Ethics, Politics, and Economics, alongside a certificate in Statistics and Data Science. Currently, he is a Master’s student at the University of Oxford studying Criminology and Criminal Justice on a Rhodes Scholarship.
Emily Sc.
Emily holds a BS in Biology and a BA in Anthropology from Brown University. She received the Fulbright Fellowship to conduct pediatric oncology research in the Netherlands. She then earned her Master's of Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, and has since returned as a medical student.
Marcus
Marcus holds a Master's in Liberal Studies from Columbia University. He previously graduated summa cum laude from the University of Minnesota with a BA in American Studies.
Elle
Elle pursued a Writing Seminars and History double major and a French minor at Johns Hopkins University, graduating with honors for her history thesis and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Currently, she is a student at the London School of Economics pursuing her MSc in Global Media and Communications.
Jason V.
Jason studied Philosophy and History at the University of Chicago (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). After graduation, Jason completed a term as an AmeriCorps volunteer. He will next begin his JD studies.
Eugene L.
Eugene is an incoming JD/MBA joint degree candidate at the University of Chicago Law School and Booth School of Business. He is currently a Manager at Capital One and works primarily on strategies to apply machine learning to new areas of the business.
Talia
Talia holds a BA in Visual Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and an MS in Quantitative Economics from UCLA. She will next pursue a PhD in Cultural Economics.
Jayton
Jayton graduated from the University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa, with a double major in Economics and Political Science and a minor in Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is currently a second-year student at Harvard Law School, focusing on corporate law and international conflict law.
Gavin R.
Gavin holds a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science from Harvard College. After working as a software engineer in computational geometry at Markforged in Boston, he moved to Austria to work as a research assistant in quantitative social science at the Institute for Science and Technology Austria and Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
Reyanna
Reyanna holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Yale and an MSc in Development Studies from SOAS University of London.
Shaw
Shaw attended Stanford where she was a Political Science major with a minor in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality studies. Currently, she is a student at Harvard Law School, where she is an Article Editor for the Journal of Law and Gender and a member of the Mississippi Delta Project Student Practice Organization.
Angela O.
Angela graduated from Georgetown University with a BSBA in finance and economics in 2015 and is currently pursuing an MD at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine with plans to practice pediatrics.
Abhinav
Abhi attended the University of Chicago, where he majored in Economics. After graduating with honors, Abhi first worked at Boston Children’s Hospital before pursuing his MD at Weill Cornell.
Bowen
Bowen graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, with a joint degree in computer science and statistics. Currently, he works as a researcher in AI for healthcare. He will start a PhD at Stanford in 2024.
Sarah Ha.
Sarah graduated from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design with a dual degree in Comparative Literature and Painting. After earning her MFA in Painting at Yale, she went on to teach first grade at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.
Patricia W.
Patricia holds a BA in French and Anthropology from Hunter College and a PhD in French Literature from CUNY Graduate Center. She has taught French at Fordham University, Hunter College, and The New School.
Colin M.
Colin attended New York University, where he earned a BA in French (magna cum laude) and an MA in French Studies (cum laude). He then went on to study at Brooklyn College, where he received an MSEd (Special Education - summa cum laude). He is a former middle school special education teacher and department head in the New York City school system.
Ilana
Ilana graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Middlebury College with a Bachelor’s in Psychology. Currently, she is a fifth-year PhD candidate in Clinical Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she is actively involved in research and clinical work.
Caleb HH.
Caleb graduated from Harvard College in with a joint concentration in Physics and Mathematics, for which he received high honors. He plans to begin pursuing a PhD in Experimental Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics in 2024, with a focus on laser cooling and optical trapping.
Zain
Zain holds a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from Yale Law School. She has held academic positions at Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania, and is a barred attorney in Pennsylvania.
Taylor Y.
Taylor is an MD Candidate at Duke University School of Medicine. Previously, she majored in Chemistry with a Neuroscience focus at Bowdoin College.
Amber F.
Amber holds degrees from UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School. She will be will be working at Cooley LLP before clerking for a judge of the Southern District of New York.
Nick M.
Nick graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a perfect 4.0 GPA from Harvard College. After graduating from Harvard, he attended Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar, earning a Master’s in Global Affairs. Now, he is a student at the University of Oxford, reading for a Master’s in Criminal Justice and Criminology.
Brian P.
Brian holds a PhD in English Literature at Rutgers University, where his research was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Modern Language Association, and the Folger Shakespeare Library. His prize-winning personal essays have appeared in Avidly, Literary Hub, TriQuarterly, and Electric Literature.
Claire H.
Claire holds a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Bowdoin College. After working in a pediatric oncology research lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, she is now pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Science at the University of California San Francisco.
Maddie
Maddie holds a BA in English Literature and Human Rights from Barnard College and an MA in Public Policy and Management. She is currently pursuing her JD at Columbia Law School.
Frances
Frances holds a PhD from Harvard in the History of Art and Architecture and a BA in Art History from Bard College. Her research focused on imperial and late Roman memorial art and the “afterlives” of these types of objects.
Amber N.
Amber holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics and an MA in ESL. She has won several national awards for her exceptional teaching skills, and has held teaching positions at a number of esteemed universities.
Diane J.
Diane studied history at Yale College, focusing on the acceptance of western medicine in East Asia. After working at a boutique consulting firm in New York, she went on to earn her MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Julia H.
Julia double majored in Global Studies and Spanish Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Her thesis on microfinance loans earned her Honors in Global Studies, and she graduated magna cum laude and as a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Sherah
Sherah earned BAs in Art History and English Literature/Creative Writing from Agnes Scott College and an MA in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Georgia State University. She is currently pursuing her PhD in Geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joe G.
Joe graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Chicago with a BA in Psychology. He's presently an MD Candidate at Columbia University, pursuing a specialization in psychiatry.
Kirsten M.
Kirsten is a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and PhD candidate at Harvard University, where she studies Psychology with a minor in Data Science. Previously, she earned her BA in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Swarthmore College.
Mauni
Mauni holds a BA in War Studies from King’s College London and a JD from Yale Law School. He is a law clerk to a federal judge; previously, he was a litigation associate specializing in antitrust and constitutional law.
Natalie P.
Natalie holds a PhD in English from Yale and a BA from the University of Maryland in English and LGBT Studies. She has served as a graduate instructor at Yale, as a visiting assistant professor at Bard College, and as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton.
Sam H.
Sam graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts in History and Literature. She has professional experience working as a paralegal and a classroom English teacher. She is now pursuing her JD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Ryan E.
Ryan completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Cellular and Molecular Biology. She is currently pursuing her PhD thesis research at MIT, where her work is focused on understanding how proliferating cancer cells reprogram metabolism to maintain the metabolic requirements for rapid cell growth and division.
Valerie N.
Valerie is an artist and scientist who holds a degree in Molecular Cellular Developmental Biology, as well as a BA in Art with a concentration in Painting from Yale University. She also holds an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Darja
Darja earned her MD/PhD from Harvard/MIT, graduating cum laude. She was a resident in general psychiatry at Yale and is presently a child and adolescent psychiatry fellow at LIJ/NUMC in New York.
Hudson B.
Hudson holds a degree in International Politics from Washington and Lee University. After scoring a 180 on the LSAT, he is now pursuing his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School.
Zachary L.
Zachary attended Wesleyan University, where he received a BA with honors from the College of Social Studies. He then received his PhD in Ancient Judaism from New York University, where his thesis focused on the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Andrew S.
Andrew received a BA from Columbia University, where he graduated magna cum laude and double majored in American Studies and English. After earning his MFA in Poetry at Brooklyn College, Andrew is now an adjunct lecturer at CUNY.
Rozalyn
Rozalyn is pursuing a Master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Previously, she worked in philanthropy at The Ford Family Foundation in community economic development and in finance as a loan officer. She holds an Honors Bachelor of Science in Environmental Economics and Policy and an Honors Bachelor of Arts in International Studies.
Eliza D.
Eliza is a JD Candidate at Harvard Law School with interests in impact litigation and plaintiff-side work. She previously served as a Teach for America Corps Member and graduated from UC Berkeley.
Romina
Romina is currently a student at Yale Law School. She graduated from Harvard College with a BA in Social Studies and African American Studies. Prior to enrolling at Yale Law, Romina worked as a public finance analyst at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York City.
Max Sh.
Max holds a PhD in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia, an MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU, and a BA in Philosophy from Vassar. An experienced classroom teacher, he currently teaches World History at Poly Prep Country Day School.
Molly P.
Molly received her BA from Harvard, graduating with Highest Honors in English and Theater, Dance & Media. During her time as an undergrad, she was named a Le Baron Russell Briggs Traveling Fellow, an Artist Development Fellow, and a John Harvard Scholar, and spent a summer studying Shakespeare at the University of Cambridge in England.
Benazir
Benazir holds a BA in Linguistics from Harvard College, where she graduated cum laude and with honors. More recently, she was a recipient of the Alex G. Booth ’30 Travel Fellowship, which she used to study, sail, and travel around the world.
Layla
Layla is an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. Previously, she graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Writing Seminars and a minor in Islamic Studies. Her post-grad fellowship conducting ovarian cancer research at the National Center for Advancing Translational Science culminated in her choice to pursue a career in medicine.
Emilija
Emilija has a BA in Sociology from Queen’s University, and three Montessori MACTE teaching certifications from the Toronto Montessori Institute for children ages 2.5 through 12. Emilija completed an MA in International Studies in Education at the University of Birmingham, and an M.Ed in Educational Leadership, Organization and Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also has her Primary Years International Baccalaureate teaching license from the IBO.
Sofia
Sofía has a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and an MA in Education Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also holds an MEd in Bilingual Teacher of Students with Disabilities in Adolescent Education, Grade 7-12 from City College. Currently, Sofía is a middle school bilingual SPED teacher in NYC, working with Spanish speakers in humanities content areas (writing, reading, social studies).
Joshua
Joshua graduated cum laude from Middlebury College with a BA in Political Science. He worked for two years as a Research Associate at Mathematica Policy Research. He then worked at Kate Farms as a Market Access Associate Manager. Currently, Joshua is a dual degree master’s candidate in Comparative Urban Planning and International Governance at UCLA and SciencesPo.
Penelope
Penelope attended the University of Chicago, where she graduated with a major in Comparative Literature. She then completed a Master 1 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Comparative Literature. She is currently a PhD candidate in Romance Studies - French at Cornell University.
Jenny M.
Jenny currently teaches English literature at St. Johnsbury Academy. She holds degrees from Dartmouth College, Trinity College at the University of Oxford, and the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.
Ryan Ra.
Ryan is currently finishing a PhD from MIT in Philosophy. During the next academic year, he will be a Visiting Scholar in Ethics of Technology at Phillips Academy at Andover, and a Research Affiliate at MIT in the Philosophy Department.
Michael S.
Michael graduated with honors from Swarthmore College with a Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science. He next acquired a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Virginia, specializing in parallel and distributed systems. He completed his post-doctoral studies at the RENCI Supercomputing Center at UNC Chapel Hill.
Alvaro
Alvaro studied Chemistry & Physics at Harvard College, where he conducted research on energy storage technologies. He went on to receive a MS in Chemistry from UC Berkeley, where he studied urban-scale atmospheric pollutants.
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.
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 is a JD Candidate at NYU. He previously completed a Master's of Public Policy and an undergraduate political-science degree from the University of Maryland, where he graduated cum laude.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Simone
Simone graduated summa cum laude from Barnard. She holds a Master of Public Health from aColumbia, and is currently pursuing an MD at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sarah
Sarah studied Physics at Harvard College before earning her Master's in Applied Mathematics from Columbia. She's now pursuing her JD at Harvard Law, where her interest is in intellectual property law.
Jim
Jim graduated from St Andrews with first-class honors in History and Theology. After working for the Federalist Society, he's now pursuing an MPhil in Theology at the University of Oxford.
Drew
Drew holds a BA in Philosophy from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Philosophy from Boston College, where he is currently a fellow at the Lonergan Institute.
Tola
Tola majored in Chemistry, Neuroscience, and Biology at Indiana University Bloomington, and graduated with Highest Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa. She is a medical student at Harvard Medical School.
Arielle
Arielle is pursuing her MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to medical school, she attended Columbia University for her BS in Biology and worked in a lab studying the genetics of chronic kidney diseases.
Morgan
Morgan holds Masters' degrees in Maritime Archaeology (University of Southampton) and European History (University College London). She is a member of the Oceangate Titanic Expedition scientific team.
Alex
Alex graduated from Skidmore College with a BA in English Literature and a minor in Fiction Writing. He has worked as a Linux systems admin, a full-stack software developer, and a software consultant.
Natalia
Natalia received her BA in History from the City College of New York. She went on to earn a Master's of Science in General and Special Childhood Education at the Bank Street College of Education.
Pooja D.
Pooja studied Biological Sciences & Psychology at Cornell University before attending Weill Cornell Medical College. Presently, she's a pediatric neurology resident at Lurie Children's Hospital.
Celine
Celine holds a BA in Economics and Chinese from Smith College, and an MBA from MIT's Sloan School of Management. She has lived and worked in China, the US, France, and Lebanon.
Andre
Andre earned his BA in Integrative Biology and Human Evolutionary Biology from Harvard, where he was on the Men's Rowing Team. After two years conducting research at UC San Francisco, he is now an MD student at Harvard Medical School.
Lydia
Lydia studied Molecular Biology and Global Health at Princeton, graduating summa cum laude with the Molecular Biology Thesis Prize. She's now pursuing her MD at Washington University in St. Louis.
Marine-Ayan
Marine earned her BA in Biology with a minor in Spanish from Cornell (Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna
Anna graduated from Harvard University with a BA in English and a minor in Linguistics and Language Theory. While at Harvard, she was a curriculum editor for the Mamelodi Initiative in South Africa.
Phoebe
Phoebe is an MD student at the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program. Previously, she earned her MSc in Health and Human Sciences at UC Berkeley and her BA in English from Haverford College.
Betty
Betty earned her BA in History and Science from Harvard, and holds an MA in History from the Universiy of Chicago, and a PhD in History from Yale. She has been teaching at Phillips Exeter Academy for almost a decade.
Ian
Ian earned his BA in Economics from Bucknell. He then worked as a teacher and administrator in charter schools in New Orleans. He is currently pursuing his MBA at Columbia University as a Columbia Fellows Scholar.
Miriam
Miriam is a PhD student in Immunology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She holds a joint BA/BS in Biochemistry and Biomedical Engineering (Stern College/Columbia).
Laura
Laura is a History PhD student and Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a JD student at Yale Law. She holds an MPhil in British and European History from Oxford, and a BA in History from Duke.
Mickey
Mickey is an MD/MPH candidate at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Mailman School of Public Health. He holds a BA in Biochemistry and English (Drake) and an MS in Narrative Medicine (Columbia).
Brian
Brian is a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at Columbia Law School. He earned his Bachelor's in Mathematical Economics from Yeshiva University, where he graduated summa sum laude and received the Biblical Joseph Prize for Economics.
Tania
Tania is an MD/PhD candidate at Stanford. She holds a BA in Human Developmental & Regenerative Biology from Harvard, and earned an MS in Medical Anthropology and is finishing an MS in Oncology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford.
Sarah
Sarah holds a Master’s and PhD in English from the University of Oxford, where she wrote a dissertation on representations of risk in the contemporary American novel. Previously, she attended Dartmouth College, graduating as Valedictorian.