Geneva
Geneva received her BA in Anthropology and History from Columbia University. She is currently a PhD candidate in History at Princeton and a JD candidate at Yale Law School.
CeCe
CeCe graduated in 2015 from Princeton University, where she majored in the School of Public and International Affairs with a concentration in environmental and energy policy. She holds a JD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Anna M.
Anna holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University. She will next pursue her PhD in Applied Mathematics at Princeton University.
Eduardo L.
Eduardo is a novelist who currently teaches creative writing through the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and works as a freelance consultant training GenAI models to respond more accurately to human prompts. He has worked as a consultant at Deloitte and has taught with the Princeton Prison Teaching Initiative.
Varun
Varun graduated from Princeton summa cum laude with a degree in neuroscience. He is currently an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and will be graduating in 2025.
Doug
Doug has enrolled in the UC Berkeley – UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP), where he will earn an MS in Health and Medical Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2026 and an MD from UC San Francisco in 2029. He also holds a BA in Neurobiology from the College of Wooster.
Annelise
Annelise holds an MD from Columbia and a BA in Biology from Harvard. She is now an intern in her transitional year at Beth Israel Brockton Hospital, after which she will train at the University of California San Francisco for her dermatology residency.
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.
Andrew R.
Andrew is an MSc Candidate in Neuroscience at McGill University. Previously, he earned a BA in Biological Sciences at Cornell, graduating magna cum laude.
Ahmed
Ahmed earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Inequality Studies from Cornell University. He is currently an MD student specializing in Community Health and Informatics & Data-Driven Medicine at Stanford School of Medicine.
Karen
Karen attended Cornell University, where she majored in Environmental and Sustainability Science and graduated cum laude. She also holds an MPA in Environmental Science and Policy from Columbia University. Karen currently works as an Environmental Consultant for the financial and manufacturing sectors.
Paul S.
Paul graduated as a Merrill Presidential Scholar from Cornell University's College of Human Ecology in May 2021 with a Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, Health, and Society. He is pursuing his MD at the University of Pennsylvania.
Victor Od.
Victor double majored in Complex Systems and Mathematics at Cornell, where he graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He will next pursue a PhD in Applied Math.
Connor S.
Connor studied Mathematics at Cornell, and is now completing a PhD in Math at the University of Wisconsin Madison, focusing on combinatorics and algebraic geometry.
Ashvin
Ashvin earned his BA in Mathematics at Harvard, receiving early election to Phi Beta Kappa, graduating summa cum laude, and winning the David Mumford prize. He also holds a PhD in Mathematics from Princeton.
Michelle W.
Michelle graduated with high honors from Princeton University, majoring in Chemistry and minoring in Global Health & Health Policy and Neuroscience. Currently, she is working as an associate consultant at Trinity Life Sciences.
Rodrigo
Rodrigo is a 4th year medical student at the University of California, San Francisco. Originally from Los Angeles, he studied nutritional science at Cornell University, where he graduated with honors and distinction.
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.
Maryam
Maryam graduated summa cum laude with a BA in History and a Minor in Arabic from Princeton. After her Master’s in Early Modern European History at Oxford, she went on to pursue her PhD in in History and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard.
Claire H.
Claire holds a BA in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Bowdoin College. After working in a pediatric oncology research lab at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, she is now pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Science at the University of California San Francisco.
Olivia W.
Olivia holds an BA in Chemistry from Princeton, and an MSt in General Linguistic and Comparative Philosophy from Oxford. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi with a focus on endangered language documentation and computational linguistics.
Daniel C.
Daniel graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell. After working as a mechanical engineer designing medical devices for 5 years, he is now back at school pursuing his MBA at MIT Sloan.
Alan C.
Alan attended Princeton, where he studied Mathematics, focusing on Probability Theory and Machine Learning Theory. He is now a PhD student at Harvard in the Department of Statistics, where he works on establishing mathematical foundations for machine learning tools that have had empirical success.
Sonya C.
Sonya is presently an MBA Candidate at Harvard Business School. A published fiction writer and Presidential Scholar graduate of Cornell University, she holds a BS in Applied Economics with a minor in Creative Writing.
Julia A.
Julia holds an MEng and BS in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University. There, she served as a TA for Fluid Dynamics, Mechanical Design, Introduction to Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Ethics. Currently, Julia is employed at an engineering consulting firm specializing in pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Ryan E.
Ryan completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell University in Cellular and Molecular Biology. She is currently pursuing her PhD thesis research at MIT, where her work is focused on understanding how proliferating cancer cells reprogram metabolism to maintain the metabolic requirements for rapid cell growth and division.
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.
Jahnavi
Jahnavi is an MD Candidate at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and an MPH Candidate at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. Previously, she earned her BA in Neurobiology and Global Health and Health Policy at Harvard College.
Chris B.
Chris received his AB from Princeton, where he studied History and American Studies. After earning his Ed.M. at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, he’s been teaching in Boston for the past decade.
Annie S.
Annie holds a degree in Biology from Cornell and an MD from Harvard Medical School. After completing her residency in Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine, she began her work as a primary care pediatrician.
Heide B.
Heide graduated summa cum laude from Princeton in 2020 with a BA in Chemistry. She's currently a PhD Candidate in Chemical Biology at Harvard; her current thesis work focuses on small molecule probes for degradation of tau in cell models of neurodegenerative disease.
Winston L.
Winston is an MD Candidate at Harvard Medical School. Previously, he pursued an undergraduate degree in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, where he graduated magna cum laude.
Max R.
Max holds a PhD in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, prior to which he received his AB in Mathematics from Princeton University. He has done research across multiple areas of machine learning and statistics, notably natural language processing, fine tuning for neural networks, probabilistic modeling, and statistical theory.
Fiona Y.
Fiona is an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and PhD candidate in Mathematics at Cornell. She holds a BA in Mathematics (cum laude) from Harvard and an MS in Mathematics from Cornell.
Brandon H.
Brandon currently teaches at Georgetown University. He holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton, a JD from Georgetown University, and an MA and BA in Latin American Studies from UT at Austin.
Dev
Dev holds a PhD in Computational Math from Princeton University. He has worked at Meta/Instagram, NASA, BlackRock and has previously run a machine learning startup backed by the NSF, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Rakeeb
Rakeeb graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a degree in Biological Engineering. He then pursued a research position at Johns Hopkins University, where he discovered a passion for immunology that has since led him to become a PhD candidate in the Immunology program at Harvard.
Nic
Nic found graduated from Princeton University in 2018 with a degree in Molecular Biology and Creative Writing, cum laude. Then, Nic completed a research year at Princeton Neuroscience Institute prior to starting at Harvard Medical School, where they are currently an MD candidate. They have received Harvard’s Presidential Public Service Scholarship and the REACH Scholarship.
Penelope
Penelope attended the University of Chicago, where she graduated with a major in Comparative Literature. She then completed a Master 1 at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Comparative Literature. She is currently a PhD candidate in Romance Studies - French at Cornell University.
Sam C.
Sam graduated with a degree in Physics from Princeton University. After graduation, she taught physics at a high school in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. She's currently pursuing her MFA in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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.
Samantha F.
Samantha graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a BS in Human Biology, Health & Society and a minor in Education. After obtaining her Master in Medical Education at the University of Nottingham as a Fulbright Scholar, she is now an MD Candidate at NYU.
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.
Pedro G.
Pedro is a 2nd-year medical student at UCSF. As a native Spanish speaker, he started studying Mandarin in middle school for his foreign language requirement. Following this passion, he graduated from Stanford University with a BA in East Asian Studies, focusing on the Chinese healthcare system.
Isaac L.
Isaac graduated in 2020 with a BS in Neurobiology and Behavior from Cornell. As a student, he spent much of his time investigating diabetes treatments and bariatric surgery. He is an MD Candidate (2026) at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons .
Lisa A.
Lisa attended Cornell University where she graduated magna cum laude in Chemistry and Chemical Biology. After Cornell, she worked at Procter and Gamble making your favorite household laundry supplies! She is now a PhD candidate in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology program at Harvard.
Erin F.
Erin holds a degree in Astrophysics from Columbia University, and she is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and fifth year PhD student in Princeton's Astrophysical Sciences department. Her current work is in support of the NASA Dragonfly mission.
Pooja R.
Pooja is an MD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She studied Cell and Molecular Biology at Cornell University, graduating summa cum laude with Distinction in Research. During her senior year, she was awarded the Academic Excellence Award, which recognizes the top two scholars in the Biological Sciences major.
Kellen H.
Kellen holds a BA from Princeton in History & African American Studies, and a PhD from Columbia in History. She was a Predoctoral Fellow at UPenn’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies, and is now working on her Postdoctoral Fellowship at Penn State University.
Hudson L.
Hudson earned an AB in Physics from Princeton. Next, Hudson worked as a quantitative trader and researcher at DC Energy. Now, Hudson has returned to studying physics as an astrophysics graduate student at MIT's LIGO labs.
Evan Ga.
Evan is a 2023 MBA candidate at MIT Sloan with interests in climate tech, sustainability, and entrepreneurship. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Applied Economics and Management (with specializations in finance/accounting) from Cornell University.
Vivian U.
Vivian is a first year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Previously, she earned her BS in Computational Biology with a Computer Information Science minor from Cornell University.
Cameron H.
Cameron graduated summa cum laude with an AB in Neuroscience and a minor in Linguistics from Princeton, earning election to Phi Beta Kappa. He is currently pursuing an MD degree at Harvard Medical School with the eventual goal of working in academic medicine.
Izzy
Izzy graduated from Princeton with a BS in Chemical & Biological Engineering and minors in Statistics & Machine Learning and Creative Writing (poetry). She is now a PhD student in Biostatistics at Harvard University.
Brooke
Brooke majored in Biological Sciences at Cornell. She is now an Organismic and Evolutionary Biology PhD student at Harvard University, where her focus is deep sea molecular biology.
Liam
Liam holds a BS from Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. After graduating, he accepted a leadership development role within the healthcare sector of CVS.
Manny
Emmanuel is pursuing his MD at UC San Francisco. Previously, he earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering at UC Davis and worked at a Fortune 50 company developing medical devices.
Ruby
Ruby studied Molecular Biology at Princeton University. After completing research fellowship at the UCSF Breast Care Center, she is now pursuing an MD at Harvard Medical School.
Adrienne
Adrienne received her English PhD from Harvard University, her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her BA from Princeton University. She is a nonfiction writer and poet, and teaches in the Writing Program at Princeton University.
Sam
Sam holds a BS in Physics (Cornell) and a PhD in Physics (Harvard). He's now a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, studying physical systems and machine learning applications.
Ivy
Ivy graduated with a BFA in Fine Arts and BAs in Comparative Literature, Anthropology, and French from Cornell University. She's presently a PhD student in Comparative Literature at Harvard.
Molly
Molly has been teaching Spanish language and Hispanic literature and culture at the university level since 1996. She fell in love with the language as an undergraduate at Princeton and went on to get her PhD in Spanish at Yale.
Ally
Allison is pursuing a PhD at Princeton University in the Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences Program. Her research focuses on the interaction between the atmosphere and ocean with regard to climate change.
Scott
Scott earned his MBA from Yale and BS in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell. He has worked as a management consultant and a semi-professional poker player. Currently, he works at Google.
Pooja D.
Pooja studied Biological Sciences & Psychology at Cornell University before attending Weill Cornell Medical College. Presently, she's a pediatric neurology resident at Lurie Children's Hospital.
Sally
Sally is a software engineer at an EdTech company in Boston. She has a BA from Princeton University in Computer Science, where she researched high school computer science pedagogy and curriculum.
Michael
Michael studied Music at Princeton, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He then earned an MA and MPhil in Music Theory at Yale, where he is now finishing his PhD in the same discipline.
Lydia
Lydia studied Molecular Biology and Global Health at Princeton, graduating summa cum laude with the Molecular Biology Thesis Prize. She's now pursuing her MD at Washington University in St. Louis.
Marine-Ayan
Marine earned her BA in Biology with a minor in Spanish from Cornell (Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bryan
Bryan graduated magna cum laude from Princeton, where he majored in English and Creative Writing. After teaching for several years, he is now the English Department Chair at a nationally recognized charter school in St. Louis.
Sylvie
Sylvie graduated from Princeton with a BA in English and certificates in Gender & Sexuality Studies, Humanistic Studies, and Latin Literature (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a PhD student in English at UC Berkeley.
Michael
Michael is currently pursuing his dermatology residency training at the Harvard Combined Dermatology Residency Training Program in Boston, MA.
James
James graduated summa cum laude from UC Berkeley with a double major in Public Health and Molecular & Cell Biology. Currently, he is pursuing his MD at UC San Francisco.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth holds a BA in Molecular Biology and a Certificate in Finance from Princeton. She is currently an MD student at Weill Cornell Medical College on clinical rotations.
Charles
Charles graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Mechanical Engineering and Certificate in Theater and Dance. He has been a private tutor in New York City for over twelve years.
Annabel
Annabel graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton with a BA in English. She recently completed an MA in Philosophy & Literature at University College Dublin as a George J. Mitchell Scholar.
Esmat
Esmat is a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology at Princeton University. She earned her undergraduate degree in Microbial Biology with a minor in Secondary Math and Science Education from UC Berkeley.
Zach
Zach is a resident in Internal Medicine at Duke University. He holds his MD and his PhD in Neuroscience from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and completed his BS in Biology and Society at Cornell.
Kristen
Kristen lives in Cambridge and teaches writing at Harvard. She earned her PhD in English in 2021 from Princeton University.
Mariam
Mariam Rahmani is a writer and translator. Rahmani holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA and an MFA in Fiction from Columbia University, as well as degrees from Princeton and Oxford. She currently serves on the faculty of Bennington College and is a postdoctoral Fellow with the American Council for Learned Societies in 2023-24.
Jennie
Jennie is currently a dental student at Harvard Dental School. She earned her Bachelor's in Human Biology, Health, and Society, with a minor in Health Policy and Human Development at Cornell University.
Anagha
Anagha graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Molecular Biology and a minor in Ethnographic Studies and Global Health. Currently, she is a med student at Harvard Medical School.
Hannah
Hannah earned a BA in Integrative Biology and Public Health (summa cum laude) and an MPH in Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology from UC Berkeley. She is now an MD student at UC San Francisco.
Ernesto
Ernesto is an MD/PhD candidate at UCSF. He graduated with all available honors from UCLA with a BS in Molecular Cell and Developmental Biology (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa).
Michelle
Michelle graduated with a double major in English and Molecular Cell Biology: Infectious Diseases from UC Berkeley (summa cum laude). Currently, she is an MD student at UC San Francisco.
Rex
Rex is an MD student at UCSF School of Medicine. He graduated summa cum laude from UCLA in 2019 with a Bachelor's in Neuroscience and a minor in Biomedical Research.
Sara
Sara graduated from Boston College with a BS in Chemistry & Communications (magna cum laude). She is currently a PhD candidate in Chemical Biology at Princeton University.
Lina
Lina earned her PhD in Chemistry at Princeton and her BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a minor in Physics at UC Santa Cruz. She is currently an MD candidate at Columbia University.
Catherine
Catherine is a PhD candidate pursuing a degree in Wildlife Ecology at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. She has an undergraduate degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University, and is currently a NASA Graduate Fellow.
John
John earned his BA in Literature from Harvard (magna cum laude), and his PhD in Philosophy from Princeton. After teaching at several major universities in the US and abroad, John is now pursuing his MSW at Simmons University.
Alice
Alice holds a BA in Neuroscience (Princeton), worked at a non-profit preschool for children with developmental delays, and conducted research at Boston Children's Hospital. She is now an MD student at Weill Cornell Medical College.
Sanjna
Sanjna earned her BA in Biochemistry at Cornell University (Phi Beta Kappa). She is now a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Twenty-First Century Scholar.
Ya Sheng
Ya Sheng is currenly a JD candidate at Yale Law School. Previously, he received an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at KingŐs College, University of Cambridge and a BA in Politics from Princeton.
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
Sean
Sean graduated from Cornell with a degree in Chemistry. He taught high school math for three years before going on to earn his MBA at Columbia Business School. He will soon begin is postgrad career in management consulting.
Jane
Jane holds a BA in Mathematics from Princeton (summa cum laude) and a PhD in Mathematics from MIT, where she earned the Housman award for excellence in teaching. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington.
Meera
Meera studied Biology as part of the honors program at the University of Chicago. She then completed a two-year research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health. Meera is currently a medical student at UCSF, where she does computational research and is involved in curriculum development and teaching.
Gabe
Gabe holds a degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and an MD from NYU School of Medicine. He is now an Assistant Professor at NYU and sees patients in the HIV clinic at Bellevue Hospital.
Jim
Jim holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Math from Oberlin, and an MA in Economics from Cornell. After traveling the country working on political campaigns, he now works as a software consultant and is based in Cambridge, MA.