Kyra G.
Kyra attended Brown University, where she studied English and Nonfiction Writing and graduated with honors, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Nonfiction Writing at the University of Iowa.
Sadia
Sadia holds a BA in Social Anthropology from Harvard University. After graduating, she spent two years working in global health advocacy and policy work. Currently, she is pursuing an MD-PhD at UCSF.
Victor W.
Victor holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize for fiction. He also earned an MA in philosophy from the University of Miami where he was awarded an Outstanding Teaching Award, along with the Martha S. Weeks Graduate Excellence Award, and the Gerrit and Edith Schipper Award in philosophy.
Jessika
Jessika is an MD/PhD student at Harvard Medical School and MIT, researching deep learning applications in drug discovery. She previously graduated summa cum laude from WashU on a full-ride scholarship where she studied Computational Biology with minors in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Harry D.
Harry graduated from the University of Richmond as the valedictorian with a 4.0 GPA (Phi Beta Kappa) and four first-authored publications. Finding medical research inescapable, he is getting a combined MD/PhD degree at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, desiring to pursue orthopedics surgery with research in targeted drug delivery.
Clara B.
Clara holds a BA in English from Harvard and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia. She is now an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School.
Sarah Ha.
Sarah graduated from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design with a dual degree in Comparative Literature and Painting. After earning her MFA in Painting at Yale, she went on to teach first grade at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn.
Amara
Amara is currently in her final year of the MD/PhD program at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and will be starting her residency in Neurology next year. She holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton.
Alyssa K.
Alyssa is an MD-PhD student at Yale School of Medicine. Previously, she earned a degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard College.
Jesse
Jesse holds a BA in History from Columbia, where he was a Navab Fellow, Solomon & Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellow, and Benjamin F. and Bernice Block Scholar. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Theatre Acting at Columbia.
Morgan
Morgan holds a JD from Vanderbilt University Law School and a BA in American Studies from Wesleyan University. She is a former lawyer admitted to practice in the State of New York (having worked in both government and BigLaw), and most recently was the Script Coordinator on a Netflix TV show.
Rob F.
Rob holds an MFA in Fiction from New York University. Previously, he worked for Bain & Company and graduated from Stanford with a major in Political Science. He currently writes poetry, fiction, and art criticism.
Zaina
Zaina earned her BS in Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is currently pursuing an MD/PhD at UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley.
Amy T.
Amy attended Stanford University, where she majored in Urban Sustainability and minored in Italian, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Amy went on to receive her MFA in Creative Writing from Hollins University, where she was a Dillard Fellow and received the Andrew James Purdy Prize in Short Fiction.
Emmett K.
Emmett attended Amherst College, where he majored in English. After college, Emmett spent five years working as a journalist and television producer. Next, he received an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana.
Andrew S.
Andrew holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a BA in English from Calvin University. He has taught English and Creative Writing classes at the University of Iowa and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, as well as tutored at Iowa’s Tippie College of Business.
Sean B.
Sean graduated from Yale University with a degree in American Studies. After teaching in Oklahoma City at Odyssey Leadership Academy, he went on to earn his MFA in Poetry at Boston University.
Matthew S.
Matthew attended Emory University, where he majored in English and Creative Writing and won several student film awards. He currently works in the film industry.
Pav
Pav graduated magna cum laude with a BSE in Chemical and Biological Engineering and minors in Engineering Biology and Global Health Policy from Princeton. He is now an MD-PhD student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Emily S.
Emily is pursuing an MD/PhD degree at Harvard, in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program. She previously studied Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University.
Samantha H.
Samantha attended Stanford University, where she explored the role of synaptic proteins in visual system development for her honors thesis research. She graduated with a BS in Biology conferred with honors and with distinction. She is currently pursuing a combined MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School and MIT in the Health Sciences and Technology program.
Nathan B.
Nathan is a lecturer in The Writing Seminars, the creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University. He earned his MFA at Hopkins, and also attended Emory University in Atlanta, majoring in English literature and creative writing and graduating summa cum laude.
Bex
Bex majored in theatre and minored in creative writing at Northwestern University, graduating summa cum laude. After settling in Chicago, Bex won a prestigious Luminarts Cultural Foundation fellowship in creative writing. They are now an MFA candidate at Hamline University, where they study writing for children and young adults.
Gha Young
Gha Young majored in Chemistry and Physics at Harvard College. During her time there, she conducted research on mRNA nanoparticles. She is now an MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School, where she strives to combine nanomedicine with computational modeling.
Aum P.
Aum majored in Microbiology and minored in Anthropology and Health Disparities in Society at the University of Florida. Aum believes in the importance of research to drive medicine forward and improve health outcomes. As such, he is pursuing an MD/PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Tong
Thomas earned his BS in Chemistry at Duke. He is currently an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT. In the Harvard Immunology Program, he is studying how the immune system responds to severe viral infections such as COVID-19
Maya
Maya graduated Columbia University with dual degrees in Biology and Computer Science. She began her first year at the Harvard-MIT MD/PhD program (Health Sciences and Technology MD track) in 2020.
Joan
Joan started radiology research at Northwestern while she was still in high school, and went on to earn her BA in Biology from Emory (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is an MD/PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Joshua
Joshua studied Computational Biology at Brown University. Now, he's an MD/PhD at NYU School of Medicine, where he researches how machine learning algorithms can build clinical decision support tools.
Adrian
Adrian self-designed his MS/BS in Structural Biology and Molecular & Cell Biology at UConn. He then spent three years researching virus structure and antiviral therapies at Harvard, and is now pursuing an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT.
Lara
Lara holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford (Phi Beta Kappa,Tau Beta Pi). She's currently pursuing an MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School in the Health Sciences & Technology program.
Eduardo
Eduardo earned his BS in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from MIT (Phi Beta Kappa, 4.9/5.0 GPA). He is currently pursuing his MD/PhD from the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology (HST) Program.
Ali
Ali is an MD/PhD student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She received her BS from Boston College where she majored in Biology with a minor in Medical Humanities and was a Gabelli Presidential Scholar.
Humza
Humza graduated summa cum laude from Arizona State University with a double major in Medicinal Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences. He is now an MD/PhD candidate at UCLA.
Stacie
Stacie is currently an MD/PhD at Harvard-MIT. Previosly, she served as the Concertmaster of the Longwood Symphony Orchestra, and earned her Bachelor's in Biology with minors in Music and the Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT.
Chang
Chang is an MD/PhD student at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He earned his BA in English Literature and Biochemistry at Columbia University, where he was a John Jay Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
O'Jay
O'Jay is an MD/PhD candidate at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He graduated with Honors from CUNY-John Jay College with a BS in Cellular and Molecular Biology and minor in Philosophy.
Sara Deniz
Sara is a poet, educator, and scholar. She holds a BA in English (Wesleyan) and an MFA in Poetry (Iowa Writers' Workshop). She is currently working on her PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Kannan
Kannan holds a BA in the History of Science (University of Chicago, Phi Beta Kappa) and an MFA in Fiction (Iowa Writers' Workshop). His stories have been published in the LA Times, the LA Review of Books, and Racquet.
Emma
Emma earned her BA in English from Sarah Lawrence and her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has worked as a writing teacher, editor, and agent, and is now a freelance editor based in California.
Shelby
Shelby holds a Master's in American Studies (Oxford) and an MFA in Fiction (UC Irvine). His stories have been published in places such as Vice News and GOOD Magazine, primarily about climate change and the environment.
Logan
Logan is an MD/PhD at Harvard. Prior to med school, she spent two years in affordable construction through AmeriCorps, and earned her BA in Child Development at Duke (Truman Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa).
Nick
Nick received his BA in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Genetics, Genomics, and Development from Cornell (Phi Beta Kappa). He is now pursuing a dual MD/PhD in the Harvard-MIT joint program
Mallory
Mallory earned her BA in English from Harvard University, where she was awarded a creative thesis in Playwriting. She went on to earn her MFA in Playwriting from the New School. She is a teacher in Salisbury School's summer program.
Claire
Claire holds a BA in English Literature (Brown) and an MFA in Painting (New York Academy of Art). Since 2016, she has been teaching high school English Literature at BASIS Independent in Brooklyn.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth is an MD/PhD student at NYU School of Medicine's Medical Scientist Training Program. She holds a BA in Biology with a minor in English from Hunter College.
Brian
Brian attended Stanford for his undergrad, where he studied Computer Science and Biology, and he was named a Barry M. Goldwater Scholar. Currently, Brian is an MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School and MIT.