2026 Recipients

Devin Adams

Harvard Graduate School of Education

Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts | Boston, Massachusetts Devin Adams is an Ed.L.D. student at Harvard Graduate School of Education passionate about democratizing access to future-defining technologies for urban youth who have historically been locked...

Eunice Chae

Harvard College

Law Offices of the Public Defender | San Bernardino County, CA Project Title: The Necessity of Public Defense – The Right to Counsel in the Criminal Justice System Eunice Chae is a student, writer, and artist hailing from the deserts of Southern...

Bella Evans

Harvard College

Women’s Law Project | Pittsburgh, PA Bella Evans is a rising senior at Harvard College pursuing a joint concentration in Sociology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, with a secondary in Psychology. Originally from Orcas Island, Washington, Bella is...

Virgil Guo

Harvard College

Age Strong Commission, City of Boston | Boston, MA Virgil Guo is a rising junior in Currier House studying Statistics and Molecular and Cellular Biology. Originally from Newton, Kansas, he is committed to using data as a storytelling tool to surface...

Jane Holmes

Harvard Law School

Political Asylum/Immigrant Representation (PAIR) Project | Boston, Massachusetts Jane Holmes is a JD student at Harvard Law School who will be working with the Political Asylum/Immigrant Representation (PAIR) Project this summer in Boston. Jane is from...

Sana Khan

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Resilient Sisterhood Project | Cambridge, MA Project Title: A Community Campaign to Improve Adolescent Menstrual Health Sana Khan is a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) candidate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has led numerous research...

Dang Nguyen

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Michael Dukakis Institute for Leadership and Innovation | Boston, MA Strengthening Public Institutions Through Responsible Artificial Intelligence Development Dang Nguyen is an aspiring physician-innovator and public health technologist working at the...

Arya Rao

Harvard Medical School

Operation Outbreak and Sentinel | Boston, Massachusetts Arya Rao is an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School/MIT who uses artificial intelligence to build resilient, adaptive health systems. Her doctoral research under Professor Pardis Sabeti...

Courtney Sales

Harvard Graduate School of Education

The Massachusetts Department of Youth Services (DYS) | Boston, Massachusetts Reimagining School Reintegration for Court Involved Youth Courtney Rodriguez Sales is a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, pursuing a Doctorate in...

Morgan Snyder

Harvard Kennedy School

U.S. House of Representatives Democratic Women’s Caucus | Washington, DC Protecting Women’s Economic Security, Health, and Safety Through Targeted Federal Policy Action Morgan Snyder is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School...

Tiffany Tran

Harvard College

Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment Summer Program | Dorchester, MA Tiffany Tran is a rising junior at Harvard College studying Applied Mathematics on the Economics Track with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. A proud daughter of Vietnamese...

Tanya Vidhun

Harvard College

The Wellness Center at Los Angeles General Medical Center | Los Angeles, California Tanya Vidhun is a rising junior at Harvard College, from Yorba Linda, California, and is studying Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology and Economics. She cares...

Zoe Yu

Harvard College

Women's Lunch Place | Boston, Massachusetts Zoe Yu is a Taiwanese-American writer from Texas. At Harvard, she studies a self-designed Special Concentration in Public Thinking, which explores how political ideas are shaped and contested in narrative form...