Karan Chopra
MBA, 2013
Karan is currently an MBA student at the Harvard Business School. Karan is part of the executive team and leads strategy, partnerships and business development for Global Agri-Development Company (GADCO), a vertically integrated agri-food business focused on the production, processing and marketing of food products in Africa. Recently, Karan has consulted for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and private sector businesses on south-south partnerships (particularly the Brazil-Africa corridor) for technology transfer and policy lessons.
Prior to this, Karan spent three years at McKinsey & Company where he was awarded the social sector fellowship and focused on market-based and scalable solutions for broad-based economic development. At McKinsey, Karan worked with multiple stakeholders (governments, leading foundations, fortune 500 businesses and NGOs) on broad ranging economic development topics, including agriculture transformation, REDD strategy, low carbon economic development, forestry, sustainability and reconstruction in multiple countries including Ethiopia, Guyana and Haiti. Prior to McKinsey, Karan worked for Siemens AG in Germany.
Karan received his BSc. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is an Indian citizen and has lived in Ghana for 18 years.
MBA, 2013
Karan is currently an MBA student at the Harvard Business School. Karan is part of the executive team and leads strategy, partnerships and business development for Global Agri-Development Company (GADCO), a vertically integrated agri-food business focused on the production, processing and marketing of food products in Africa. Recently, Karan has consulted for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and private sector businesses on south-south partnerships (particularly the Brazil-Africa corridor) for technology transfer and policy lessons.
Prior to this, Karan spent three years at McKinsey & Company where he was awarded the social sector fellowship and focused on market-based and scalable solutions for broad-based economic development. At McKinsey, Karan worked with multiple stakeholders (governments, leading foundations, fortune 500 businesses and NGOs) on broad ranging economic development topics, including agriculture transformation, REDD strategy, low carbon economic development, forestry, sustainability and reconstruction in multiple countries including Ethiopia, Guyana and Haiti. Prior to McKinsey, Karan worked for Siemens AG in Germany.
Karan received his BSc. in Electrical Engineering with highest honors from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He is an Indian citizen and has lived in Ghana for 18 years.
Brian Clark
Ph.D, 2016 I am a second-year PhD student in The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where I study particle physics. As an undergraduate at North Carolina State University, I participated in particle physics research at Oxford University and CERN, coordinated a stadium recycling program, helped to build a home with Habitat for Humanity in the Dominican Republic, and studied the nature of peace and conflict of the late-20th century in Eastern Europe. Upon graduating, I studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Cambridge on a Marshall Scholarship. In my free time around Boston I enjoy running, playing soccer, and delving into the latest – and oldest – political happenings. When I get the rare chance to slip away from MA for a few days, there is nothing like the perspective of a hard day's work, an evening of fishing, and a starlit night back home on my family's small farm in North Carolina. 
Raquel Fernandez
MPP, 2013 Raquel Fernández is a second year Masters in Public Policy student at the Kennedy School of Government. She was born in Costa Rica, but grew up in other countries in Latin America including Bolivia, Mexico, Dominican Republic, and Brazil. Previous to coming to the Kennedy School she worked at the World Bank in Washington D.C., mainly in projects related to trade and agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean. Upon graduation, she is considering returning to Costa Rica to contribute to her own country's development. 
Tara Grigg Garlinghouse
MPP, 2014 Tara Grigg Garlinghouse is a concurrent JD/MPP with the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School. Tara is originally from Houston, Texas and graduated from Rice University in 2008 with a B.A. in Sociology and Women’s Studies. After graduation, Tara became a City Hall Fellow in Houston to better understand policy creation at the municipal level. She worked on improving the City of Houston Municipal Courts through implementing performance measurements and streamlining processes to create a more efficient court system. In 2010, Tara started law school at the University of Pennsylvania as a Toll Public Interest Scholar to pursue her passion for helping foster children. This passion comes from Tara’s experiences growing up – when she was ten her parents decided to become a foster family, and since that time she has had over 80 foster siblings. During the last two years she explored child welfare law from almost every angle: direct representation, child welfare agency administration, judicial decision-making, state law reform, and federal policy creation. Tara is in the first year of her MPP and came to Harvard to gain skills that will enable her to improve the representation and court processes for abused and neglected children. 
Jamaal Glenn
MPA, 2014 My name is Jamaal. I am founder of Glenn Media Group (glennmediagroup.com) and a dual MBA/MPA student at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. I think a lot about power of technology to innovate our health/fitness, how we interact with our government, and how we consume news and entertainment. I love politics, sports, jazz and hip hop music. I live on the internet (and in the gym). 
Sara Greenbaum
MBA, 2013 Sara is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. Previously, Sara spent five and a half years at the William J. Clinton Foundation. She was a founder and served as Chief Strategy Officer of the Clinton Climate Initiative, a program that works with governments and businesses worldwide to reduce their carbon emissions. Sara helped conceive and launch the initiative, started up global field operations, and eventually managed over 100 employees across 30 countries as well as relationships with government, corporate, and donor partners. She also served as Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the Foundation’s international development initiatives. Sara has a long term career interest in public service. She is especially interested in how governments can help the private sector realize its full potential to innovate in areas that address critical social issues. This past summer, Sara interned in strategy at CVS Caremark, working to identify growth opportunities related to digital innovation in healthcare delivery. Sara enjoys live music, sports, outdoor adventures, photography, and international travel. To date, she has traveled to 64 countries. She has seen indie rock shows from Oslo to Tokyo and has watched New York Jets games in sports bars, fully clad in team uniform, from Addis Ababa to Melbourne. 
Shane Kiernan
MPH, 2014 I find myself at HSPH after taking a long and circuitous route pocketed by many interesting diversions but I now emerge where it all started, Healthcare. My dad a Doctor and my mum a Nurse my upbringing was typical. Epic games of Operation were standard as were the anatomical models. After my undergraduate (Business&Law) and postgraduate in finance lead me to a career in Investment Banking where I spent 4 years living in London embracing the purity of capitalism right-up until 2008. Then financial armageddon broke out and I left London for a brief spell as an entrepreneur back in Dublin where I came across a fascinating opportunity with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) volunteering in Kenya. Instantly captivated I sold-up my business and embarked on Karen Blixen’esque voyage of discovery. Immediately I found a love for Global Health and I promptly found an innate ability to leverage my financial and entrepreneurial skillset to lead transformative projects as part of my work with CHAI. From writing a successful $350 million grant proposal on behalf of the Kenyan Ministry of Health to ensuring access to paediatric antiretroviral combination commodities in rural Ethiopia, I have been privileged to lead such roles. 
Maynard Leon
M. Architecture, 2014 Born and raised just outside of Detroit, MI, I spent my formative years traversing and exploring as much of the midwest as I could. Michigan has more coastline than any state except for Alaska and I grew up an avid sailor, racing competitively in college. After receiving my B.S. Arch. from the University of Michigan, I moved to New York to work for Deborah Berke & Partners Architecture, a midsize firm with a reputation for clean, thoughtful designs. I have also spent time working for firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Much of my work at the Graduate School of Design has focused on the intersection of Architecture and Urban Planning and I am very interested in the ways policy decisions shape urban space. I also work in the woodshop and fabrication lab at the GSD and I enjoy making things with my hands. In my limited free time I find myself playing soccer, biking, practicing piano, eating and singing. 
Inessa Lurye
MBA/MPP, 2013 Inessa is in her final year of the joint MPP/MBA program at Harvard. She is particularly interested in leadership development and innovation in urban areas -- redesigning existing systems and services to better meet human needs. She is also a painter. Inessa immigrated to the US from Belarus as a child, and was draw into urban issues as a result of her upbringing in the Baltimore area. She graduated from Swarthmore College, Phi Beta Kappa, with degrees in Political Science and "Urban Studies: Policy and Painting" in 2006. Thereafter, Inessa worked as a business analyst in the New York Office of McKinsey & Company. She then moved back to urban policy work, spending two year in the Executive Office of Mayor Fenty in Washington DC, focusing on redesigning the homelessness and welfare systems in the District. She also helped launch a civic engagement platform for Mayor Bloomberg in NYC. Currently, Inessa is the CEO Apprentice at Farmigo -- a venture backed start-up and B Corp that is working to redesign the food system by creating more direct connections between food consumer and producers. 
Katie McKillen
MPH, 2014 Katie is currently in her first year at Harvard's School of Public Health pursuing a master's in Health Policy & Management. She graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Human and Organizational Development, specializing in Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness. She then worked in non-profit hospital management consulting addressing issues related to access to care and patient financial advocacy. She later joined the Peace Corps to combine her interests in international health, travel, and community development and recently returned from serving two years in Armenia. She hopes to incorporate her interest for public health and leadership to improve inefficiencies in health care service delivery. She is specifically interested in aging and elderly care, preventive care, and access to services. In her free time Katie enjoys running, yoga, traveling, and exploring new cities. 
Alok Mohan
MPM-LKY Fellow Mr. Alok Mohan is the Police Commissioner in the Karnataka State, India and has held many prestigious assignments at the state, national and international levels in more than two decades of his public service. He is presently pursuing the Masters in Public Management Program as a Lew Kuan Yew fellow . His challenging assignments in the state include working as District Superintendent of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police, State CID, Joint Police Commissioner, Bangalore City and Inspector General of Police, Western Karnataka. Mr. Mohan has also headed the enforcement and vigilance wings of the urban development and energy departments in the state and was on the board of directors of the power distribution companies . At the national level, Mr. Mohan has served as the Assistant Inspector General of Police in the Central Industrial Security Force at New Delhi and headed the operations and internal security wing for the 90,000 plus elite paramilitary force of the central government. On the international level, Mr Mohan has led the multinational police task force of the UN Peace keeping Operations in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He has been with the British Police on the prestigious “Senior Command Course” and as fellow of the prestigious “Advanced Management Program” of the premier Administrative Staff College of India, has visited institutions of global repute in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Switzerland. Mr. Alok Mohan is decorated with the prestigious President of India Police Medal for Meritorious Services, President of India Police Medal for Distinguished Services and UN Peace Medal. 
Shana Montrose
MPH, 2013 Shana Montrose is interested in issues of poverty, inequality and justice and works from a mission of supporting parents in improving the lives of the next generation. Her background is in political science, international relations and international development. She taught in the U.S. and abroad before becoming more involved in healthcare. Shana received grant funding to design a program for former sex workers in Costa Rica and to develop a curriculum for a grassroots education program in a favela in Brazil. After graduating from Georgetown she accepted a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to Uruguay where she worked as a liaison between Rotary International and the Pan American Health Organization, conducted research on adolescent health for the Ministry of Health and created an after-school chess program for low-income children. The Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010 when Shana was returning to the U.S. and soon after she became an Emerging Leader Fellow in Health and Human Services. She worked in the strange place of government start-up offices that were created to implement the newly signed legislation - including the Office of Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight and the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Innovation. Also as a fellow she worked for the Executive Office of the President's Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Global Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of HHS. Shana has also worked on health reform at the state level in Colorado, on the Health Insurance Exchange and at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing's Health Reform Unit. She is in the one-year MPH program at the Harvard School of Public Health. 
Lotte Mulder
Ed.M, 2013 I was born and raised in Amsterdam where I graduated from the International Honors College of University Utrecht with a BA in Neuro-Linguistics and Anthropology. After college I moved to the U.S. and worked as the International Internship Coordinator for an experiential education organization while also getting my birth doula certification. I made the transition from office work to fieldwork in Fall 2009 when I co-designed and led four semester programs to Guatemala, Uganda, and India. Most of my work in India was in the red light area in Varanasi, where I worked with the children and women. I also led programs in Thailand and Indonesia, where we went hunting in the jungle, lived in a village built on stilts in the middle of the ocean, and meditated in a cave with buddhist monks. Most recently, I worked as the Staff Development Director Carpe Diem Education, based in Portland OR. Here I created educational manuals for our overseas program leaders and office staff while redesigning and co-facilitating leaderships trainings. I am now studying a combination of leadership, negotiation, and group development and aim to design and facilitate leadership trainings of my own. 
Angela Nelson
Ed.M 2013 Angela Nelson founded Stages Learning Materials in 1997 as a vehicle to publish and distribute her line of photo-based teaching tools for autism and special needs. Currently Angela is President and CEO of Stages Learning Materials. During her undergraduate work, Angela studied behavioral psychology at UCLA under Dr. Ivar Lovaas, head of the premier program in the treatment and education of children with autism. Following her graduation, she worked four years as a senior therapist for the Center for Autism and Related Disorders, supervising educational programs, performing assessments, and conducting workshops for parents and professionals across the country and in Europe Angela received her BA in Psychology, and her JD from UCLA. While earning her JD, she focused her studies on business, taking cross-departmental courses through the MBA program at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business Management. Angela holds a Board of Director’s position for the National School Supply and Equipment Association, as well as serving on multiple association committees, including the NSSEA Legislative Committee advocating for important issues in education and educational manufacturing and publishing. Angela is currently studying at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she will earn an Ed.M. with a focus on technology innovation and education. 
Deborah Orosz
MD, 2015 Deborah Orosz is a student at Harvard Medical School in the Class of 2015. She is interested in health care policy and economics, new health care delivery models, primary care medicine, and health equity. She is currently conducting a project at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital aimed at improving transitions of care between the hospital and outpatient setting and reducing preventable hospital readmissions. Prior to medical school, Deborah worked for ten years as a policy advocate and community organizer in Los Angeles, where she led political campaigns for civil rights and environmental health. Deborah lives in Jamaica Plain with her partner, Ted Robertson, a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and their 10-month old son, Finn. 
Tony Pan
Ph.D, 2016 Tony is a Ph.D. candidate at Harvard’s Physics Department, where he is a Hertz Fellow -- the most competitive and prestigious graduate fellowship in science and engineering -- and a Soros Fellow, and a NSF Graduate Research Fellow. His research at Harvard focuses on the cosmic dawn, the “Let there be light” moment in the nascent universe, when the very first stars were born. As an inventor working with Intellectual Ventures, a major intellectual property development firm, Tony is working to make electricity drastically cheaper and far more universally available, and is leading the development of a novel technology aimed at these goals. He also serves as a pro bono external consultant to the Global Health and Global Development programs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. For these contributions, Tony was recently selected as a Global Shaper -- a World Economic Forum initiative -- for the Seattle hub. Tony worked as a strategist at Goldman Sachs on mortgage department-wide position and risk management during the ‘08-‘09 financial crisis. Other recent activities include serving as an Exhibit Hall Interpreter at Boston’s Museum of Science, and teaching biological signal processing at Harvard. 
Maria Parra-Orlandoni
JD, 2015 My parents are immigrants from Venezuela, and we moved to the US when I was about 4 yrs. old. I have lived all over the US, but "home" is South Jersey. I am a 2005 USNA graduate and earned a scholarship to earn a masters in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program. I subsequently served as a Surface Warfare Officer onboard two Navy warships stationed in San Diego. During those operational tours, I completed 2 deployments to the Middle East. I left the Navy in 2011, and traveled to Brazil for a few months to learn Portuguese and volunteer. Then I taught Physics at Rutgers University for a semester before coming to HLS! 
Nicolas Pesciarelli
MBA, 2013 I was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I studied Industrial Engineering at University of Buenos Aires and joined McKinsey & Co. right after that. This is my first time living in United States and I am really enjoying it. My passions in life are having passionate conversations and trying new things. I also really enjoy working out and meditation. 
Benjamin Scheerbarth
MUP, 2014 Benjamin Scheerbarth is a student of urban planning at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Upon graduating from high school in Berlin, DE, he spent a year collaborating with South Africa’s Global Development for Peace and Leadership in Cape Town, SA. Here, he was responsible to tailor an existing peace education program to a younger audience. Thereafter, he moved to the UK to study International Management at The University of Manchester. During the four years of the program, he was an exchange student in Copenhagen, DK, Shanghai, CN, and Fukuoka, JP. His focus was on contemporary political theory and sociology, through which, he remains convinced, advances in management thinking and practice might and need to be (re)imagined. At the GSD, he aims to apply this knowledge and international exposure to the realms of urban planning and design. Outside the classroom, he loves exploring new places, mountaineering, and listening to electronic music. 
Lauren Schiller
Ed.M At the Harvard Graduate School of Education, I am pursuing a Master of Education in Mind, Brain, and Education. During this year-long program, I am studying the intersection of cognitive science/neuroscience and education. I also seek to leverage my time at Harvard to gain the skills necessary to become a leader in the field of education, as I focus on underprivileged children and students with learning disabilities. Before HGSE, I spent several years teaching in the Boston area. Following graduation from Boston University, I had the unique experience of working as a founding teacher at a first-year charter school in Dorchester. At this charter school, I taught 4th grade Literacy and Ethics and collaborated with colleagues to literally and figuratively build the school from an idea to a thriving learning environment. Afterwards, I taught 6th grade special education in Malden, where I co-taught with the general education teachers as an inclusion specialist and also implemented reading/math interventions. Some interesting facts about me: originally from NJ, oldest girl of six kids, certified SCUBA diver, love to travel, cook, and enjoy a good meal with friends! I’m very excited to be part of HGSLI and I can’t wait to meet everyone! 
Marika Semerdzhian
MPP, 2013 Marika is a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and a Master in Business Administration candidate at the Wharton School of Business. She is also a graduate of Stanford University, where she received a BA in Economics, and a BA in Political Science, graduating with honors. After college, Marika joined Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division, working initially in the United States and then transferring to the firm’s office in Russia. Directly prior to graduate school, Marika was working at Ducat Capital, a Moscow-based M&A boutique which she founded with senior Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs professionals. Marika grew up in Los Angeles, California. 
Mona Singh
MD/MPH, 2013 Born and raised in Northern Virginia, Malkit (Mona) Singh is the youngest child of Indian immigrants and the first in her family to go to college and beyond. Mona is a Master in Public Administration and Medical Degree candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. A 2008 graduate of George Mason University, Mona majored in Sociology: Inequality and Social Change and was a recipient of the Leadership Pillar Award and Senior of the Year Award, the highest honor conferred to a student by the university. Her Sikh values, rooted in sewa (selfless service) and sarbat da bhalla (working for the common good), guide her commitment to public service and human development. A Harvard Public Service Fellow and Harry S. Truman Scholar, Mona is interested in conflict resolution, changing the culture of medicine, and working at the intersection of poverty and disease in medically marginalized communities. Mona believes it her privilege and responsibility to help solve problems of living that turn into medical illness as a physician-surgeon and advocate for the poor. Mona currently serves on the Student Advisory Board of Physicians for Human Rights and Social Media Committee of the Association of Women Surgeons. 
Carrie Solomon
MPH, 2014 Carrie Solomon is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health. Carrie was born and raised in southern Indiana and received her B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis where she majored in Political Science and Spanish. After graduating from college, Carrie returned to her hometown where she worked on a Congressional campaign as Deputy Finance Director. For the past approximately six years, Carrie served as a legislative aide and health policy advisor to Members of Congress from Indiana, Arizona, and Wisconsin. In this capacity, she advised U.S. Representatives, drafted legislation, and served as a liaison between stakeholders, constituents, and elected officials. Carrie actively participated in the creation and passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and worked on the law’s implementation. She most recently staffed an active member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Health. Carrie strives to build upon her political and policy experience by working on implementing new delivery system models with the goal of transforming health care delivery to both lower costs and improve quality. In her spare time, Carrie enjoys running, reading The New Yorker, and listening to live music. 
Emilie Song
MPH, 2014 I am currently a first year in the Health Policy and Management program at HSPH. For the last 2 years I lived in San Francisco and worked in health care consulting, mainly in quantitative and qualitative market research for oncology products. Prior to that, I went to school at UCLA studying psychobiology and public health. I am particularly interested to learn how effective leadership can shift attitude that ultimately lead to behavior change. Creating an environment that does not stifle innovation in health care is something that I hope to help create in the future. I am excited to meet new people and open my eyes to new ways of thinking. I am an avid reader, yoga enthusiast and coffee fanatic. Any local coffee shop gems are greatly appreciated! 
John Speer
MBA, 2014 I grew up in various small towns in Texas, but attended a military boarding high school in San Antonio. After graduating from Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, I was commissioned as an officer in the US Air Force, and soon after married my beautiful wife Nikki in western Pennsylvania. I attended a year of pilot training in northeastern Mississippi and remained at this location for three years afterwards to train student pilots in the T-37 Tweet jet trainer. Occupational hazards included students becoming airsick in a very small two-person cockpit and/or attempting to crash airplanes I happened to be riding in. In 2006, I was selected to fly the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber at Whiteman Air Force Base near Kansas City, Missouri and subsequently held several positions within the 509th Bomb Wing, eventually becoming an instructor in this aircraft as well. In July 2012, I left active duty to attend school full-time and drill in the Air National Guard one weekend a month. I now live in Allston with my wife and two sons, three-year-old Ramsey and four-month-old Wolfgang. Interests include wakeboarding, snowboarding, cocktails, and diaper-changing. 
Anjali Thakkar
MD, 2016 Anjali is a first-year student at the Harvard Medical School, and graduated from MIT in June 2012 with a dual degree in Biology and Materials Science & Engineering. A Harry S. Truman Scholar, Anjali is the Founder and Director of TIMtalks (Think. Inspire. Motivate. – Powerful Ideas by Passionate Students). TIMtalks are student stories of initiative, success, and lessons learned from failure, and are an opportunity for MIT students to reflect on their experiences. Like TED talks, they’re “ideas worth spreading,” so they’re delivered in front of a live audience and shared online — but TIMtalks are uniquely MIT. She is also a researcher on liver regenerative medicine, tackling a major question in the field of liver tissue engineering: hepatic cell sourcing. She is passionate about education reform on health and poverty issues, and received two fellowships to develop and implement a mentorship program, “The Entrepreneurial Spirit,” to teach sustainable micro-finance to low-income students in developing countries. Anjali hopes to apply her medical and engineering training and her interest in public policy and medicine to a career in global health, advocating for low-income populations around the world. 
Marlysa Thomas
MPP, 2014 Hi, my name is Marlysa and I was born and raised in Southern California. I recently graduated from UC Berkeley and am now an MPP1 at the Kennedy School. My area of focus is looking at inequality through the lens of poverty. I hope to eradicate poverty by reforming the education and prison systems. I previously went to Ghana to study child trafficking and started a program aimed at increasing the literacy rate at a shelter for recently rescued children. Additionally, I recently started a program that is going into its second year and is aimed at increasing the retention and graduation rates of underrepresented undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. My passion is to not ignore issues, and rather seek innovative solutions to address the inequalities that our society faces. I am excited to participate in the Harvard Graduate Student Leadership Institute to build a supportive community that will improve my leadership capacities and transform my ability to help others grow as I lead in the future. 
Marcos Valdez
MBA/MPP, 2015 I come from a small farming town in Tolleson, Arizona and am the youngest of five children. I became a first-generation college graduate in May 2010, and after graduating, I began working full-time in Washington, D.C. with a nonprofit that I started volunteering with two years prior. The Hispanic College Fund is a nonprofit organization whose focus is to develop the next generation of Hispanic professionals. This experience ultimately shaped my perspectives and furthered my understanding about the issues inherent in the U.S. public education system along with concretizing the real and perceived barriers that Latinos (and other minorities) are facing regarding college access and persistence. Additionally, HCF opened another door and allowed me to follow my (unrealized at that time) passion of working directly with and motivating Latino high school students coming from under-privileged backgrounds to go to college – a challenge has been rather difficult. My intention is to develop a nonprofit that furthers this work in the field of education for underserved and underprivileged backgrounds. Apart from school, I’m a big on the outdoors – running, rafting, kayaking, camping – and love to head out salsa dancing. |
