Tag: Student profile

  • Nation & World

    Road less traveled by

    LaNell Williams is building a career as a researcher and leader by going her own way, helping prospective grad students of color find theirs.

    4 minutes
    LaNell Williams.
  • Nation & World

    As teen, he was embarrassed by his migrant worker mom’s job

    Filipino Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara recalls how his mother’s job embarrassed him as a teen and he was “ashamed” to tell classmates and friends, but says he now understands the plight of millions like her around world, and wants to help.

    5 minutes
    Jeromel Dela Rosa Lara
  • Nation & World

    Passing the torch of representation

    Young Black artist-animator Uzo Ngwu ’23 helps breathe life into film on trailblazing Harvard music historian Eileen Southern.

    4 minutes
    Uzo Ngwu '23.
  • Nation & World

    Looking to the stars with different visions

    Harvard student London Vallery seeks to improve Indigenous representation in aerospace sector.

    5 minutes
    London Vallery.
  • Nation & World

    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.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Pianist on the rise

    Charlie Albright — “among the most gifted musicians of his generation,” according to The Washington Post — has excelled in Harvard’s joint program with the New England Conservatory and is on track to receive a master’s of music in piano performance next year.

    3 minutes