Featured series 
Tag: Diverse-education
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Nation & World
A tailor-made mix
Rafael Gracioso Martins searched for a university that offered a part-time master’s degree with a mix of online and on-campus courses. He found it at the Harvard Extension School.
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Nation & World
Loss and grief ignited her desire to move forward
Cathy Payne chose to get a degree at the Harvard Extension School to honor the memories of loved ones.
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Nation & World
Mother joins son at Harvard Extension
Pamela Lim came to Harvard Extension School to ensure her son — initially diagnosed with multiple learning disabilities and later found to be profoundly gifted — was comfortable. She walked away from the experience with her own degree as a master of liberal arts.
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Nation & World
Coursework, support, faculty worked for her
Extension School graduate credits A.L.M. degree with helping her landing a new job.
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Nation & World
Drive behind pursuing concurrent degrees
Elorm Avakame chose to pursue a concurrent M.P.P./M.D. degree at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Medical School because “in Medical School, we are all training to be doctors, but here at the Kennedy School, people are training for so many different walks of life.”
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Nation & World
When is the price right?
Cuicui Chen, who received her Ph.D. in Public Policy, says her research underscores the importance of drawing upon accurate beliefs when making market-based decisions.
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Nation & World
Growing up in Cleveland set Finch’s trajectory
Jay Finch attended a conference at the Harvard Kennedy School that brought undergraduate sophomores from diverse backgrounds to campus for a weekend introduction to graduate school in public service. The conference changed his path as a public servant.
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Nation & World
Poverty and past failures provide lessons in giving back
Wendell Adjetey, a postdoc fellow at the Weatherhead Center, is paying it forward with a foundation that helps the most marginalized peoples of the African Great Lakes region get an education.
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Nation & World
Spirit of inquiry
Harvard Medical School’s Benyam Kinde, Ph.D. ’16, M.D., ’18, led investigations that uncovered a novel role of the MECP2 protein — which when mutated leads to the devastating neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome — in regulating gene expression in the developing brain.
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Nation & World
Bulgarian-born computer science student finds her niche
Maria Zlatkova shares the challenges of coming to Harvard from Bulgaria and discovering an amazing support system in a group of computer science majors.
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Nation & World
Hodan Osman learns to ask new questions
Child of Somali nomads, Harvard Kennedy School’s Hodan Osman, M.C./M.P.A. Mason Fellow, finds she is “passionate about state-building.”
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Nation & World
Ruiz found support at Medical School
The eldest of three children in a Mexican-American family in Texas, Jessica Ruiz, M.D. ’18, was one of only 14 members of the Class of 2018 who received the M.D. degree with Honors in a Special Field (magna cum laude).
