Past Recipients

2014 Fellowship Recipients

Daniel Backmann

Harvard College
Class of 2015

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
Chicago, IL

 

Oded Oren

Harvard Law School
Class of 2015

Public Defense Service of the District of Columbia
Washington, DC

 

Jing Qiu

Harvard College
Class of 2016

Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program
Cambridge, MA

 

Daniel Severson

Harvard Law School / Harvard Kennedy School
Class of 2016

Defense Intelligence Agency
Washington, DC

 

Eva Shang

Harvard College
Class of 2017

American Civil Liberties Union
New York, NY

 

Nicole Simon

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Class of 2016

Boston Public Schools
Boston, MA

 

2013 Fellowship Recipients

Nicole Abi-Esber

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2014

U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of International Affairs
Washington, DC

 

Matthew Basilico

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences/Harvard Medical School
Class of 2016/2018

World Bank Group
Washington, DC

 

Curtis Lahaie

Harvard College
Class of 2015

Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund
New York, NY

 

Theodore Miler

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2017

Office of the Mayor for the City and County of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA

 

Annika Nielsen

Harvard College
Class of 2015

Urban Food Initiative
Dorchester, MA

 

Ashley Pletz

Harvard Kennedy School
Class of 2014

NYC Department of Education, Office of Early Childhood Education
New York, NY

 

Jalem Towler

Harvard College
Class of 2015

Roxbury Youth InitiativeSummer Urban Program, Phillips Brooks House Association
Roxbury, MA

Siwen Zhang

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Class of 2019

Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA)
Seattle, WA

2012 Fellowship Recipients

Chike Aguh

Harvard Kennedy School/Wharton School
Class of 2013

White House’s Performance Improvement Council
Washington, DC

Angela Chuang

Harvard Law School
Class of 2013

New York County Defender Services (NYCDS)
New York, NY

Osh Ghanimah

American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School
Class of 2013

The Children's Aid Society
New York, NY

Mackenzie Hild

Harvard College
Class of 2014

COPE (Community Outreach and Patient Empowerment)
Navajo Nation, Arizona

Nancy A. Khalil

Graduate School of Arts And Sciences
Class of 2017

Greater Boston Interfaith Organization
Boston, MA

Paul Perry

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Class of 2014

Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)
Los Angeles, CA

James Pollack

Harvard College
Class of 2014

U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC

Ivel Posada

Harvard College
Class of 2014

Lambda Legal
New York, NY

Crystal Redd

Harvard Law School
Class of 2013

Advancement Project
Washington, DC

2015 Fellowship Recipients

Carolyn Brooks

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Class of 2017

Boston Public Health Commission
Boston, MA

Kamilyn Choi

Harvard College
Class of 2017

U.S. Department of State
Washington, DC

Damon Clark

Harvard College
Class of 2017

White House, Office of Intergovernmental Affairs & Public Engagement
Washington, DC

Schuyler Daum

Harvard Business School/Harvard Law School
Class of 2018

Suffolk County District Attorney's Office
Boston, MA

Ola Friday

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Class of 2017

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families
Washington, DC

Michael Haggerty

Harvard Graduate School of Design
Class of 2017

MASS Design Group
Boston, MA

Bianca Tylek

Harvard Law School
Class of 2016

Pennsylvania Department of Corrections
Harrisburg, PA

2016 Fellowship Recipients

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Sean Lo

Harvard Law School
Class of 2017

Metropolitan Public Defenders Office
Portland, OR
Public Defenders Office
San Francisco, CA

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Lavinia Mitroi

Lavinia Mitroi

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Class of 2018

LA County Supervisor's Office
Los Angeles, CA

Lavinia is a second-year DrPH student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health....

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2017 Fellowship Recipients

Lamees El-sadek

Lamees El-Sadek

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Class of 2019

Mississippi State Department of Health
Jackson, MI

Nakoa Farrant

Nakoa Farrant

Harvard College
Class of 2018

Paepae o He'eia
Kane`ohe, HI

Peter Im

Peter Im

Harvard Law School
Class of 2018

Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division/NAACP Legal Defense Fund
Washington DC/ New York, NY

 

Ginger Jackson-Gleich

Ginger Jackson-Gleich

Harvard Law School
Class of 2018

Alameda County Public Defender's Office
Oakland, CA

 

Jesper Ke

Jesper Ke

Harvard College
Class of 2019

Greater Boston Legal Services, Elder, Health and Disability Unit 
Boston, MA

 

Juliet Lewis

Juliet Lewis

Harvard College
Class of 2018

Lawyers Alliance for New York
New York, NY

 

Jin Park

Jin Park

Harvard College
Class of 2018/2019

Boston Public Schools
Boston, MA

 

Matt Presser

Matt Presser

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Class of 2019

Iowa Department of Education
Des Moines, IA

 

Cassandra Robertson

Cassandra Robertson

Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
Class of 2018

Kentucky Highlands Investment Corporation
London, KY

 

Caroline Tervo

Caroline Tervo

Harvard College
Class of 2018

North Carolina Governor's Office
Raleigh, NC

 

Michael Williams

Michael Williams

Harvard Business School
Class of 2018

Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Detroit, MI

 

2018 Fellowship Recipients

2011 Fellowship Recipients

Alice Abrokwa

Harvard Law School/Harvard Kennedy School
Class of 2012

Juvenile Regional Services (JRS)
New Orleans, LA

Evelyn Boettcher

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2012

U.S. Military's Pacific Command (PACOM)
Honolulu, HI

Carolyn Chou

Harvard College
Class of 2013

Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program
Boston, MA

Sean Driscoll

Harvard Law School
Class of 2013

U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York
New York, NY

Dominique Gomez

Harvard Kennedy School
Class of 2013

White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
Washington, DC

John Hulsey

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2016

City Life/Vida Urbana
Boston, MA

David LeBoeuf

Harvard College
Class of 2012

Coalition for Education Options (CEO)
Berkeley, CA

Lisa Simon

Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Class of 2014

Student Experience and Rotations in Community Health (SEARCH)
Holyoke, MA

Tsione Wolde-Michael

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Class of 2011

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Washington, DC

2019 Fellowship Recipients

2020 Fellowship Recipients

2020 Fellowship Receipient

Akosua Dankwah

HSPH

Project: The Rhode Island Executive Office of the Health and Human Services. Health Systems Transformation Project to reinvent the Medicaid program by addressing the social determinants of health.

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Suhas Gondi

Suhas Gondi

HMS/HBS

Project: Commonwealth Care Alliance. Boston, MA. Community-based healthcare organization dedicated to improving care for individuals who are dually eligible for MassHealth (Medicaid)and Medicare with complex medical, behavioral health and social needs, including those with disabilities.

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Laura Jenny

Laura Jenny

COLLEGE

Project: Strategies for Youth. Cambridge, MA. Intern. Youth Trauma Initiative. Policy and training organization dedicated to improving police/youth interactions and reducing disproportionate minority contact.

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Humza Jilani

Humza Jilani

COLLEGE

Project: Tech Against Terrorism. United Nations (UN). Research Intern. Tech Against Terrorismis working on behalf of the UN CTED to support the global tech industry to tackle terroristexploitation of their technologies.

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Amisha Kambath

Amisha Kambath

COLLEGE

Project: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Oakland, CA. Research and policy projects related to transformative justice and responses to violence and the city of Oakland’s strategic plan.... Read more about Amisha Kambath

Ryan Keen

Ryan Keen

GSAS/HSPH

Project: Massachusetts General Hospital Rural Public Health and Community Medicine. Intern.Boston, MA & Rosebud, SD. Working on the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board on avariety of palliative, cancer, and serious illness health care programs for Indigenous Tribes inrural Rosebud, South Dakota.

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Tamara Shamir

Tamara Shamir

COLLEGE

Project: Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) Family Detention Project. Dilley, TX. Provides free civil legal services to asylum-seeking women and children who are detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center (STFRC).

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2021 Fellowship Recipients