Nathan Mallipeddi

Stuttering Scholarship Alliance

Nathan Mallipeddi is a first-year MD/MBA student at Harvard Medical School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Nathan Mallipeddi graduated summa cum laude with honors from UCLA in 2020, where he received a B.S in Biology and B.A in Political Science. He is a Junior-elect to Phi Beta Kappa and a Fulbright Scholar. Nathan is a proud person who stutters and founder and CEO of Myspeech (myspeechapp.org), an international nonprofit organization that utilizes technology to connect people who stutter with supportive resources across speech therapy and community services. To date, Myspeech has impacted 20,000+ people who stutter in 25+ countries. He also serves on leadership teams for several international speech disability awareness organizations. As a founding investor of VANA Capital, Nathan sourced investments and supported startups innovating in the psychedelic space. Nathan’s research has been published in top journals, including Science, Science Advances, Nature Biotechnology, Journal of Disability Policy Studies, and Autism in Adulthood. Nathan aspires to a career that transforms the quality of care for persons with speech disabilities in healthcare systems around the world.