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Adjusting the flight plan
Jake Moore will add a degree from the Kennedy School to the medals and commendations he has earned over 15 years in the Navy. His post-military target is human rights work with refugees and asylum seekers.
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The flourishing of Genesis
Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.
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At WHRB, Harvard student turns on radio and tunes in listeners
Henna Hundal ’19 works as interviewer on her own radio show on Harvard’s WHRB, bringing the larger world to her listening audience.
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Dancer moves from stage to the study of religion
Dancer, actor, photographer Benjamin Grimm ’18 widened his focus to the comparative study of religion with a secondary degree in German and Scandinavian studies.
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Uncertain chapter in dental student’s life
Lindsay D’Amato took a circuitous route from Missouri to the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, via graduate school in California, a two-year Peace Corps stint in Panama — and a detour for brain surgery.
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Changing his script to embrace the moments
Obstacles turned into stepping stones before Casey Khang Moore ’18 found new roles to explore at Harvard.
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Through the lens of black health
Tania Fabo’s ambition is to bridge the gap between biomedical research in the laboratory and public health efforts to reduce health inequalities among minorities.
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He set the stage for change
David Coletti is a peer adviser, a PBHA volunteer, and international traveler who says conversations have broken down barriers and fostered connections key to his time at Harvard.
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A monk with one foot in the world
Buddhist monk Tajay Bongsa wants to unite social and economic progress with dual master’s degrees in theology and business.
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At 71, he earns his third degree
Henry Hacker, a lifelong collector, earned his third degree at 71, in museum studies at the Harvard Extension School.
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A laser focus on freedom
Jieun Baek, who is graduating from Harvard Kennedy School with a master’s in public policy, is dedicated to opening North Korea to the world.
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An immigrant triumph
After leaving Brazil at age 11 for the United States, Eric Westphal ’14 learned English and started climbing life’s ladder, culminating as an honors graduate.
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Tough as a rugby player
A fierce field general on the women’s rugby team, Harvard College senior Shelby Lin is also a math and economics star with a bright future.
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Sox title strikes right note
An organist of 11 years for the Red Sox, Harvard library assistant Josh Kantor serenaded fans deep into the night after the team’s World Series win.
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The path to fighting injustice
Lillian Langford, graduating with degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School, plans to use her experience working in international law and human rights and her experience at Harvard to continue fighting injustice.
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Take-home lessons
Viridiana Rios is a native of Mexico City. Rios, a graduating doctoral student in Harvard’s Department of Government, also is an adviser to Mexico’s minister of finance.
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A vision of education for Kenya
Anne Bholene Akinyi Odera-Awuor, who is getting a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, has grand plans to improve how schools operate in her homeland.
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Healing hands for an ailing world
Benedict Nwachukwu, graduating with a dual M.D./M.B.A. degree, wants to apply the management skills he learned at Harvard Business School to the medical problems he finds in orthopedics and in global health.
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On the water and in the Air Force
All-American Crimson rower Courtney Diekema, a graduating senior, is hoping for a spot on the under-23 U.S. women’s crew and perhaps in the Olympics, even as she gets ready for duty as a lieutenant in Air Force intelligence.
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Across cultural borders
Suzie Verdin will graduate with a degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Arts in Education program, and hopes to use it to help people in immigrant communities connect with the arts.
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Chasing the caffeine high
In opening Harvard’s first student-run coffee shop, Jesse Kaplan found startup success the old-fashioned way.
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A fascination with fixing bodies
After college, Joshua Wortzel plans to build upon his Harvard research that focused on tissue regeneration. He hopes to work in translational medicine, helping to create drugs that might augment patients’ lives.
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He strikes a key balance
The teenage concert pianist Drew Petersen chose to attend Harvard Extension School to attain his bachelor’s because the flexibility of the program allowed him to continue pursuing his passion and his fulltime career in music.
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Linking health policy to people
Maia Fedyszyn, who is receiving a master’s of science in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health, has a passion for health policy to improve the lot of everyday people.
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A data bank to battle cancer
Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are collaborating on a massive, long-term effort to collect and analyze tumor tissue from 10,000 cancer patients annually. The researchers hope the data will enable them to understand better how tumors behave, while providing opportunities to test new therapies.
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Guided by faith
Divinity School student Shauntae Smith will draw from her Harvard studies to lead the youth ministry at her home church in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Racing to find her passion
Setbacks in her ski racing career set Marguerite Thorp on the path to serving her passion for global health and social justice.
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The master distiller
Jason Harrow argued his team to victory in Harvard Law School’s prestigious moot court competition. But his biggest test came in a real federal courtroom, where Harrow took up a high-profile case against the music industry.
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Planning a life for others
Before he was a graduate of Harvard, Jeffrey Lynn Hall Jr. was a graduate of the streets of St. Louis, which taught him to look back and to give back.
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All creatures great and small
Viewing all life as interconnected, Australian equine specialist Mark Schembri will use his degree from the Harvard School of Public Health to help humans and animals live healthier.
