Graduate Profiles
Meet the Class of 2025
Harvard College
Eliot Hodges
Eliot Hodges is a math concentrator and gifted cellist who has balanced both passions during his time at Harvard College. As a recipient of the Churchill Scholarship, Eliot will be studying at Cambridge next year.
Addie Esposito
Combining her fascination for Germany with her interest in politics and government, Addie began a project to investigate how the Cold War continues to shape German identity.
Ben Abercrombie
Ben didn’t let a spinal-cord injury stop him from pursuing a Harvard education, and now he plans to combine his interests in economics and sports with a career in personal finance.
Harvard Business School
Mireya Iglesias Ayala
Throughout her education, Mireya prioritized her journey towards self-awareness as well as gaining an appreciation of different perspectives.
Seamus Bann
During his time at the Business School, Seamus focused on the intersection of sustainability and business, especially sustainable urban development.
Dominic Mensah
An international student from Ghana, Dominic aims to leverage his education to transform the food space in his country.
Harvard Divinity School
Joy Castro-Wehr
While at Harvard, Joy developed a unique understanding of spiritual care, informed by compassionately and creatively listening to others. After graduation, she will pursue a Clinical Pastoral Education residency at Johns Hopkins and will also continue in the ordination process.
Michael Fuhrman
Michael’s interest in divinity school was sparked by his HDS alum teacher and mentor at the University of Arkansas. While at Harvard, he taught with Harvard’s Bridge Program for adult learners and with Alexander Twilight Academy, a middle school enrichment program.
Harvard Extension School
Drawing on my time as a father and … an Army officer, I designed a workshop to support the identity development in military-connected adolescents.”
I analyzed the productivity gains enabled by an AI chatbot in relation to its associated carbon emissions.”
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Afomia Hunde
With her degree in architecture, Afomia is interested in exploring how design can address systemic inequities while responding to climate change.
Angelina Zhang
With an interest in sustainability and the built environment, Angelina participated in several sustainability initiatives and programs at Harvard that inspired her to start her own non-profit.
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Following a successful professional basketball career in Europe and Canada, Kazembe has pivoted to something else that he’s passionate about: working with youth.
While at HGSE, Gabriela founded Appstinence, a student organization focused on the goal of being social media free.
While at Harvard, Julie worked as a student ambassador at the university’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, helping connect students, faculty, and resources on all things climate.
In his final capstone paper, Brendan explored the academic experiences and outcomes for youth in foster care, using his experiences as a high school math teacher to guide his research.
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Bella Pignataro
While at Harvard, Bella was co-president of the Harvard chapter of Engineers Without Borders, worked as an electrical engineering teaching fellow, and undertook renewable energy projects as a summer intern.
Charles Whitehead
Charles pursued both a degree at SEAS and training with the ROTC. After graduation, he’ll continue his studies at Georgia Institute of Technology for a master’s degree in operations research.
Emma Yang
Having coded since the age of 6, Emma was excited to join the SEAS computer science community, including the Harvard Undergraduate Quantum Computing Association and the CS Curriculum Committee.
Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Even after I leave the lab, I feel like I’ve acquired a lifelong mentor.”
Elizabeth’s research identifies trends in political participation at the local level in Central Appalachia, linking political engagement to the impact of government social programs.
Graduating with a Ph.D. in African and African American studies, Bulelani’s current project looks into the proliferation of Chinese surveillance technologies in East Africa.
Harvard Kennedy School
Justin Flynn
At Harvard, Justin studied economic development, technology, and international security policy so he could work on foreign and domestic strategies that will create better opportunities for Americans.
Roni Yadlin
As a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and pilot, Roni hopes to use her Ph.D. in Public Policy to help the Air Force meet its future challenges and, eventually, to teach future leaders.
Caren Yap
With a degree in public policy, Caren wants to return to Las Vegas and work with labor unions and worker centers to strengthen worker protections and support pathways to economic opportunity.
Harvard Law School
After several years of legal practice in her native Nigeria, Blessing came to Harvard Law to further explore the profession, focusing on mergers and acquisitions.
David came to Harvard Law with the goal of working in civil rights law, but through his coursework and prominent internships he found he had a passion for national security law too.
Harvard Medical School
Jowan Watson
During his time at Harvard Medical School, Jowan created a first-of-its-kind residency training curriculum in sports psychiatry so doctors can more thoroughly help injured athletes.
Emily Rencsok
After graduation, Emily will complete her residency at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where she hopes to support patients’ recoveries while pursuing her interests in disability advocacy and health policy.
Chris Buswinka
While at Harvard, Chris realized there was a technical need in the science of hearing. He used AI to enable deeper data analysis that could drive the discovery of new treatments for hearing loss.
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Xixi Zhou
For Xixi, the moment she knew she wanted to go into endodontics was during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when she was treating a high volume of emergency patients in pain.
Bart Volo
After graduation, Bart will complete a general practice residency in Boston at the VA Medical Center. He looks forward to gaining experience across all areas of dentistry and providing comprehensive dental care to U.S. veterans.
Nithya Ramesh
Nithya’s interest in dental public health was first sparked by an experience working with perinatal women with a history of substance use disorder.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Lakshmi Priya
While Lakshmi—a Fulbright scholar and doctor—pursued a degree in Global Health, she also performed at Harvard Chan School’s annual International Night celebration with her daughter, singing a Carnatic classical piece and performing a classical dance form called Kathak.
While pursuing a Ph.D., Kenny conducted a study which analyzed decades of data from more than one million adults to understand the connection between heart health and ultra processed foods.
Marykate began pursuing a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology while also working at Harvard as an environmental public health officer, preventing communicable diseases and gastrointestinal illnesses.
With a degree in occupational and environmental health, Francis plans to improve the health and safety of miners in his native country of Ghana, and worldwide.