Judy
Judy pursued her bachelor’s degree in History of Science at Harvard University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She subsequently earned her master of science degree in History of Science, Medicine and Technology from the University of Oxford.
Jesse
Jesse holds a BA in History from Columbia, where he was a Navab Fellow, Solomon & Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellow, and Benjamin F. and Bernice Block Scholar. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Acting at Columbia.
Hannah L.
Hannah earned her BA from Yale University, where her undergrad poetry thesis won her Yale’s Frederick Mortimer Clapp Fellowship. Hannah got her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2015 and is currently an English PhD candidate at the University of Virginia.
Kendall G.
Kendall is a doctoral candidate in Politics at the University of Oxford with a specialization in political theory. Before moving to the United Kingdom as a Marshall Scholar, Kendall attended Tulane University, where she graduated summa cum laude in two degrees – a BA in Political Science and a BSM in Legal Studies in Business.
Chris B.
Chris received his AB from Princeton, where he studied History and American Studies. After earning his Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he’s been teaching in Boston for the past decade.
Connor M.
Connor is a PhD Candidate in Religion at Columbia University; his dissertation focuses on the relationship between religion, science, and technology in contemporary America. He also holds an MPhil and MA in Religion from Columbia, an a BA in Religion from Vassar College.
Michael O.
Michael holds a BA in Mathematics and American Studies at Wesleyan University, and a PhD in American Studies at Harvard University. His studies focus on 19th century US history and the history of the life sciences.
Brandon H.
Brandon currently teaches at Georgetown University. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton, a JD from Georgetown University, and an MA and BA in Latin American Studies from UT at Austin.
Liz P.
Liz has been a professor at Harvard College (English) and Bates College (Theater and Dance). She holds a PhD and MA in English from Harvard University and a BA in English and Dramatic Art from UNC (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
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.
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.
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.
Adrienne
Adrienne received her English PhD from Harvard University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her BA from Princeton University. She is a nonfiction writer and poet, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
Musa
Musa earned her PhD from Columbia University in Early Modern English Drama. She has taught at Columbia University and Washington University in St. Louis, where she was an Assistant Professor of English.
Amanda
Amanda is the Religion Department chair of a private school in the Boston area. She holds a BA in Religious Studies (University of Michigan) and an EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
Kristen
Kristen lives in Cambridge and teaches writing at Harvard. She earned her PhD in English in 2021 from Princeton University.
Mariam
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and is a postdoctoral Fellow with the American Council for Learned Societies in 2023-24.
Madeleine
Madeleine holds a BA in Social Studies (Harvard) and a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (U Chicago). She is currently writing a book about Ottomanism in nineteenth-century political thought.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Evander
Evander is a Residential Tutor at Harvard. He holds a PhD in American Studies (Harvard) and a BA in Art History and English (Vassar). Previously, he worked at the New Bedford Whaling Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Shelby
Shelby holds a Master's in American Studies (Oxford) and an MFA in Fiction (UC Irvine). His stories have been published in places such as Vice News and GOOD Magazine, primarily about climate change and the environment.
Logan
Logan is an MD/PhD at Harvard. Prior to med school, she spent two years in affordable construction through AmeriCorps, and earned her BA in Child Development at Duke (Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa).
Andrew
Andrew is earning his MA in Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University on a Fulbright Scholarship. He earned his BA in History from Columbia University (cum laude), where he received the Natalie Shawn Fellowship.
Parker
Parker is a PhD student in Anthropology at Harvard. Prior to graduate school, he attended Bard College for Anthropology and Literature, and was then a Fulbright-Garca Robles Scholar in Mexico.
Claire
Claire holds a BA in English Literature (Brown) and an MFA in Painting (New York Academy of Art). Since 2016, she has been teaching high school English Literature at BASIS Independent in Brooklyn.
Eliza
Eliza majored in English and won several awards for her academic work at Bard College. She is now a PhD candidate in English at Harvard, where she studies nineteenth-century literature and the history of the novel.
Claire
Claire graduated with a BA in History and minor in Mathematics from Barnard College, where she won the the Ellen Davis Goldwater prize for excellence in History. Currently, she is a Graduate Writing Fellow at Barnard.
Brent
Brent graduated from NYU with a BA in Literature and Music, and was awarded the Dean's Grant for Creative Writing. His music has appeared in shows such as Gossip Girl and Skins, and he is currently at work on his first novel.
Chris
Chris received his PhD in English from Harvard. He holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an AB from Princeton. He currently teaches at a K-12 school in Connecticut.
Meg
Megan is a PhD candidate in the History of Science at Harvard, where she has worked with more than 200 students. Before graduate school, Megan received her BA in English from Amherst College.
Jackie
Jackie is an MD student at NYU School of Medicine. She earned her BA in Neuroscience and English and was the managing editor of her college newspaper at the University of Miami (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Tova
Tova attended the University of Chicago and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a BA in Anthropology. She recently completed her MPhil in Archaeology (with Merit) at the University of Cambridge.
Emmy
Emmy studied Literature and Visual Arts at Yale and graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa. She is now a PhD Candidate in English at Harvard, working on her dissertation about the American graphic novel.
Anna
Anna holds a PhD in Slavic Languages and Literature (Harvard), an MA in Slavic Languages and Literature (MA), a BA in History and Philology (Russian State University) and a BA in Fine Arts (Pushkin State Museum Art College).
Ben
Ben is a PhD student in Economics at UC Berkeley. Prior to grad school, he earned a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard and worked for two years as a predoctoral fellow in the Harvard Economics department.
Jon
Jon is a History PhD student at UVA and a Visiting Fellow in History at Harvard. He earned his BA in History at McGill, where he received awards for his research and graduated with the highest GPA in the Department.
Paul
Paul is a PhD candidate in African and African American Studies at Harvard, where he has received multiple awards for his teaching, as well as several research fellowships, including a Fulbright-Hays fellowship.
Courtney
Courtney holds a BHA in Art and Anthropology from Carnegie Mellon and an MPhil in Social & Cultural Anthropology from Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She is now a PhD student in Social Anthropology at Harvard.
ImeIme
Imelme holds a BA in African American Studies and Government (Harvard), a JD (Harvard Law) and an MA in Public Policy (Harvard Kennedy School of Government). She is now clerking for a federal appellate judge in Washington DC.
Joani
Joani holds a a BA in English Literature with minors in Humanistic and European Cultural Studies from Princeton, and two Master's degrees from Oxford, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She is now an English PhD student at Harvard.
Ezra
After Ezra graduated from Harvard with a BA in Social Studies, he received the Trustman Traveling Fellowship and went to Peru to study the Chinese diaspora. He is now the Artist-in-Residence at the Signet Society at Harvard.
Katherine
Katherine earned a BA in Psychology with a concentration in Liguistics from Columbia. Currently, she is completing an MA in Lingusitics at the Graduate Center at CUNY.
Andy
Andy earned a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard and a Bachelor's in Journalism from Syracuse (magna cum laude). Currently, he works as a cyber risk management consultant to the US Government.
Joseph
Joe is a PhD candidate in the Biological Sciences in Public Health at Harvard. He earned his BA in Sociology from UC Berkeley and his MS in Cell and Molecular Biology from San Francisco State.
Rachel
Rachel graduated from UVA with a double major in Art History and French, and then spent two years in Europe teaching in Lyons, France and working at art galleries in Berlin, Germany. She is now a PhD candidate in Art History at NYU.
Ian
Ian graduated with High Honors from Dartmouth with a BA in Government, and earned an MA and PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. He has taught at University of Chicago, Northwestern, Bard, and Harvard.
Rahima
Rahima earned a BA from UPenn (summa cum laude), and an MBA and MPH in Global Health from Harvard as a Zuckerman Fellow. She has lived and worked in 7 countries, and now works for the US Agency for International Development.
Caroline
Caroline joined Bain & Company full-time in 2013, and is now a Senior Associate Consultant in Bain's NY office. Before Bain, she interned at Goldman Sachs and in the US Senate, and earned her BA in Economics & Public Policy at Brown.
Connor
Connor graduated with a BA in English from Duke, where he was as an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar. He earned his MPhil in Modern & Contemporary English Lit from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was a Fulbright researcher in Tanzania.
Emma
Emma holds a PhD in French Literature from Harvard University. Previously, she earned her BA and BM, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Her doctoral dissertation examined the representation of music as a tool of social critique in the modern French novel.
Jay Ben
Jay Ben holds a BA in Theater and Creative Writing from Dartmouth and an MFA in Acting from Case Western Reserve. He then helped build and served as Associate Artist Director for a summer camp program at MaineStage Shakespeare.
Hanul
Hanul recently graduated from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as a Wyss Fellow. She holds a BA in Environmental Science from Dartmouth, where she was an Endowed Scholar, Presidential Scholar, and Stefansson Fellow.
MG
MG is a PhD candidate at Harvard University, where she studies the relationship between literature, psychology, and ethical development. Previously, she earned her EdM in Language & Literacy (Harvard Graduate School of Education).
Nora
Nora is a professor in the Psychology departments at Columbia and NYU, and a former National Science Foundation IGERT Fellow. She holds a BA in Linguistics (University College London), and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology (Rutgers).