Fellows' Bios
Spring 2005 Fellows
PATRICIA ADURA-MIRANDA holds a JD from Yale University. She has also attended Stanford University, where she received a BA in economics with a minor in political science and an MA in international policy studies. As an undergraduate, she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and started on Stanford University's Division I Men's Wrestling Team. While training for the 2004 Olympics, she served as the director of a mentoring program for at-risk high school students. Three times national women's wrestling champion and named U.S.A Wrestling Woman of the Year, Patricia won an Olympic Bronze Medal at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. Born in Manteca, California in 1979, Patricia is the daughter of naturalized parents who emigrated from Brazil. Her family lives in Saratoga, California. As a lawyer, Patricia has special interests in international human rights and immigration law. Currently Patricia is owner of Five Ring Insights, LLC and Executive Director of the National Women's Wrestling Association. She is also Community Project Director at Project START.
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CHIRAAG BAINS is a clerk for Judge Nancy Gertner of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He completed his JD at Harvard University where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received his BA, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Yale University with a double major in history and ethnicity, race & migration. He also received a Harry S. Truman Scholarship for Public Service and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which allowed him to complete an MPhil in criminology. At Yale University, Chiraag was a founding member and the editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Human Rights and also the editor-in-chief of Type Magazine, Yale University's magazine on race, class and ethnicity. In addition, he helped create a worker-run factory to reduce child labor in India, and he has interned at several organizations concerned with civil liberties and opportunities for ex-offenders. He worked at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta on capital defense and prisoners' rights cases. He intends a career in support of human rights and distributive justice. Chiraag was born in 1981 in Ottawa, Canada, to parents of Indian descent; he became a naturalized citizen in 2000. His parents currently reside in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
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CARLOS BARREZUETA, a 2006 graduate of Yale Law School, is a Dean's Fellow at Yale Law School. Previously he worked as a law clerk at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He received his BA, summa cum laude, in political science and history from Columbia University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and was the commencement valedictorian. Carlos has assisted research for various Tinker Professors at the Institute for Latin American studies at Columbia University and worked as an SEO intern at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York. At Yale University, he was an editor on the Yale Law & Policy Review and the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. He also worked on developing financial institutions for underprivileged communities in connection with the Yale Community Development Clinic. In addition, Carlos worked for the Environmental Protection Clinic. Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador in 1981, Carlos is a green card holder. His family lives in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He intends a career in both law and scholarship.
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DAVE CHOKSHI is an internal medicine resident at Brigham & Women's Hospital in
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SERGIO DELGADO is a PhD candidate in Spanish and Portuguese literature at Princeton University. He graduated in the Spring of 2005 from the University of California at Berkeley where he earned a BA in philosophy and Spanish language and literature. He received the Cervantes Prize and the J. K. Walsh Scholarship from the University of California at Berkeley for his excellence in undergraduate research. He has twice served as a student representative on delegations from California. An activist on environmental issues, he led efforts to enforce Proposition 65, California's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986, especially as it pertained to contaminated products consumed by youth. At Princeton University, Sergio helped found the Latino Graduate Association. Born in Tijuana, Mexico in 1984, Sergio is a green card holder. His parents live in Ontario, California. Sergio intends a life of scholarship and social work.
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MEERA DEO is an Assistant Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She received her PhD in sociology at the University of California at Los Angeles in 2009. She received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley with High Honors in interdisciplinary studies: American cultures. She earned a JD from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was also an intervening defendant in the groundbreaking affirmative action lawsuit, Grutter v. Bollinger. Meera interned at the South African Human Rights Commission, was the William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow with the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, and Staff Attorney for Women's Health at the California Women's Law Center. She has been both a teaching and a research assistant at University of California at Los Angeles where her research includes studies of higher education access, cultural preservation in immigrant communities, and media representation. Meera was born in 1975 in Garden Grove, California, to parents who emigrated from Mumbai, India. They became naturalized citizens in 1995 and reside in Long Beach, California. Meera intends a career as a scholar-teacher, combining her interests in activism, law, and sociology.
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MITRA EBADOLAHI is a law clerk to Judge Betty B. Fletcher of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle, Washington. Previously, Mitra clerked for Judge Margaret M. Morrow of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in downtown Los Angeles. Mitra completed her legal studies at New York University School of Law, where she was a Root-Tilden-Kern / Filomen D'Agostino Scholar and an Institute for International Law and Justice / Hugo Grotius Scholar. She will receive her LL.M. in International Legal Studies in 2010; her thesis examines the human collateral consequences of post-September 11 counterterrorism law and policy, using the control order regime in the U.K. as a case study. Mitra earned her JD, cum laude, in 2008, serving as the Senior Notes Editor of the New York University Law Review in 2007-08. She also holds a MSc in Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, received the department's award for best dissertation, and graduated first in her class. She received a double BA in international development studies and history from the University of California at Los Angeles, graduating summa cum laude with election to Phi Beta Kappa. Born in 1980 in Tehran, Iran, Mitra was naturalized in 2000. Her parents now reside in Los Angeles, California.
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HANI ELIAS works at McKinsey & Company, Inc. at their Dubai office focusing on provision of health care in the Gulf Cooperation Council. He completed his joint JD/MPH program at Harvard University in 2008. He graduated from Harvard University in 2005 with a concentration in social studies. A Gates Millennium Scholar, Hani was also awarded the John Harvard Scholarship, and he was the sole sophomore recipient of the Harvard University Human Rights Committee Grant. Hani has also served as an undergraduate student fellow at the Center for International Development. He has been a research assistant at both the Harvard University School of Public Health and the Harvard University Initiative on Global Health. Additionally, Hani is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of CollegeCorps, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aspires to improve the lives of the world's poorest while exposing undergraduates to the ongoing challenges of international development. The program has received a grant from the Gates Foundation. Hani was born a US citizen in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1983. His parents of Egyptian origin live in Mukilteo, Washington.
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KRISTINA FILIPOVICH is an litigation associate at Jenner & Block LLP in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Stanford Law School, where she was a Public Interest Fellow. She received a BA from Occidental College in politics and women's studies and a master's in gender and international development from the London School of Economics. She is the recipient of a Harry S. Truman Scholarship, a Ford Foundation Research Fellowship, and a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. Kristina has worked for President Clinton's National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women, the Department of Justice, the Centers for Disease Control, Women for Women International, The Washington Area Women's Foundation, and the International Human Rights Law Group. Her work has included creating a policy document for the nation on violence against women, nonprofit management and fundraising, and numerous international development projects. She also founded the nonprofit programs Occidental Partnership Assisting Women and the Stanford Domestic Violence Pro Bono Project. Kristina was a delegate to the UN Conference on Women in Beijing. Work, travel and scuba diving have taken her to over thirty countries. Kristina was born in 1975 in Portland, Oregon. Her family immigrated from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy and the Ukraine. Her parents are naturalized citizens and live in Oregon. Kristina will use her law degree to advance gender equality, animal rights and human rights.
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MEENAKASHI GUPTA is doing a residency at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in opthamology. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School and her BA in biology, magna cum laude from Harvard University. She was a recipient of an Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a John Harvard Scholarship and a Harvard Medical School Office of Enrichment Programs Research Grant. As a summer intern in the Department of Neurosurgery at Boston Children's Hospital, she studied the treatment of spinal cord injury with neural stem cells. Her undergraduate research in the Department of Neurobiology at the Harvard Medical School focused on identifying genes involved in the hearing process. As a high school student, working in a laboratory at the New York State Department of Health, she conducted DNA analysis for mutations causing Lou Gehrig's disease. She founded and directed Chef it Up! to combat and prevent obesity and founded the Voices Enrichment Program, a youth empowerment program that fosters civic engagement in children. Meenakashi was born in 1981 in Albany, New York, to parents who emigrated from India. They are now naturalized citizens and reside in Slingerlands, New York. Meenakashi plans a career as a physician scientist with special interest in such neurological disorders as Lou Gehrig's disease.
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RAJESH GUPTA is an MD/MS candidate at Stanford University. He received a BS in cellular biology and a BA in psychology from Tulane University. He also holds an MPH from the Yale University. Rajesh has been a counselor for the New Orleans AIDS Task Force and conducted research at Emory University and Tulane University, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has worked for the World Health Organization in Geneva as both a scientist and a policy adviser. He has been a visiting lecturer at the Harvard Medical School and a visiting scientist at the Uganda Virus Research Institute. He has also published in leading scientific journals such as The Lancet and Science. Rajesh was born in New York City in 1975 to parents who emigrated from India. They are now naturalized citizens and live in Acworth, Georgia. His career aspiration is to combat disease from a comprehensive health management perspective and to help bridge the equity divide between populations. He has spent the past six months with Google.org, the philanthropic sector of Google, working on their infectious disease initiative.
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ULCCA JOSHI HANSEN currently attends Harvard Law School, where she is active in the Prison Legal Assistance Program and is chairing the annual Public Interest Auction. She received her BA, summa cum laude, in philosophy and German from Drew University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and was awarded a Harry S. Truman Scholarship. After graduation, Ulcca worked as a teacher in Newark, NJ, and as a program fellow at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in Morristown, NJ. Most recently, she completed a DPhil at the Department of Educational Studies at Oxford University, where she was a Marshall Scholar. Her work experience and doctoral research have built on her experiences leading projects like the Reading for Life Festival and the Primary School Foreign Language Pilot Program, which work to strengthen the educational opportunities afforded to students in primary and secondary education. Ulcca was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1976 to parents who emigrated from Tanzania and became naturalized citizens in 1980. They live in Millington, New Jersey. Ulcca aspires to a career in advocacy and school reform. She is married to Chris Hansen, and they have two children named Sachin and Ashwin.
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VALERIE HICKEY received a BA in history and political science from Trinity College Dublin, with First Class Honors and an MA in international peace studies, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame. She is now a PhD candidate at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, with the long-term aspiration of a career in scholarship and advocacy relating to sustaining global biodiversity. This semester at Duke's Sanford Institute of Public Policy she taught a course for master's of public policy students in the theory and practice of negotiations. Valerie has been a research associate at the Biodiversity Support Program with the World Wildlife Fund, a program manager for the Conservation Finance Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society and a biodiversity specialist with the East Asia Environment Sector Unit with the World Bank. Valerie was born in Cork, Ireland, in 1977 and is now a green card holder.
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CINDY HUANG is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley. She conducted field work in China. She intends a career as a professor, public intellectual, and activist. Cindy received her BA, cum laude, from Yale University in ethics, politics and economics. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Yale University and was a Truman Scholar. She also received an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton University focusing on development studies. At Yale University, Cindy was the co-founder of the Juvenile Justice League, the vice-president of the Yale University Debate Association and an intern at the Cambodian Genocide Program. She has worked as a research consultant for the Commission on Human Rights, Economic and Social Council of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland and as a finance and human resources manager for Doctors without Borders in both South Sudan and Kenya. Recently, she worked as an emergency administrator for Doctors without Borders during a meningitis outbreak in Nigeria. Cindy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1978, to parents who emigrated from China and became naturalized citizens in 1982. They reside in Wheaton, Illinois.
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PRASHANTH JAYARAM is an MD/MBA candidate at University of Pennsylvania. He intends to combine his medical education with an MBA at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the field of health care management. He received a BS in economics and bioengineering also from University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated magna cum laude. Prashanth was a Vagelos Scholar, Albert E. Berg Scholar and Joseph Wharton Scholar. Prashanth also won the Sol Feinstone Award for his nonprofit and community service work. As an undergraduate, Prashanth co-founded Puente, a global nonprofit organization that uses technology to enable developing communities around the world to bridge the digital-divide. He has worked as a summer analyst for Salomon Smith Barney and as a financial analyst for Princes Gate Investors. Currently, he co-chairs the Medical Student Government and serves as a representative on the Academic Curriculum Committee. Prashanth was born in Charleston, South Carolina, and completed his secondary education in Bangalore, India. His family emigrated from South India and now resides in Chicago, Illinois. Prashanth plans on having a career in clinical medicine, and hopes to play a leadership role in both the management of healthcare systems and the implementation of new technologies to improve access to care.
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CONOR LISTON has completed his MD/PhD at the Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan Kettering Tri-Institutional Medical Scientist Training Program, where he was on a Keck Foundation Fellowship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in psychology and biology. At Harvard University, Conor worked in the Laboratory of Neurophysiology, focusing on sleep and learning, and the development of memory in infants. He has also worked at the Gilbert Laboratory of Rockefeller University on the issue of visual processing. He is currently working on the specific issues of cognitive control and chronic stress. He has co-authored numerous publications and been involved in several conferences dealing with the brain and cognitive neuroscience. Conor was born in San Diego, California, to parents of Irish descent in 1980. He grew up in Wisconsin, where his parents still live. He intends a career as a physician scientist. Now he is a psychiatry resident at Weill Cornell, where he is associated with the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology.
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ARUN MOHAN is a clinical fellow in medicine at
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SIDDHARTH MOHANDAS is a PhD candidate in political science at Harvard University and a fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. He is currently working at the Brookings Institution as a research fellow in foreign policy. He received his BA, summa cum laude, in government from Harvard University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior. He also completed an MPhil in international relations from Cambridge University. As an undergraduate, Siddharth edited the Harvard Asia Pacific Review and interned as a speechwriter for UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Prior to entering graduate school, he served as an associate editor of Foreign Affairs. He has also written for various publications including Newsweek and The Christian Science Monitor and worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. Born in Bombay, India, Siddharth is 27 years old. He became a naturalized citizen at the age of 13, but spent most of his life in Singapore where his family still lives. He intends a career as a professor, public intellectual, and policymaker.
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GAUTAM MUKUNDA is a PhD candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his research focuses on the role of leaders in organizational performance, innovation, and the social and political implications of advances in science and technology. He is also Managing Director of The Two Rivers Group, a consulting firm. He received a BA, magna cum laude, in government from
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JENNIFER NOU is a clerk for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. In July, she will begin clerking for Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. A graduate of Yale Law School in 2008, she received a BA from Yale University with a double major in political science and economics, where she graduated summa cum laude and was awarded the Truman Scholarship. As an undergraduate, Jennifer was the founder of Yale End Domestic Violence, the outreach coordinator of the Yale Women's Center and the vice president of the Yale Mock Trial Association. At Oxford University, she completed her MPhil in politics with distinction, where she was a Marshall Scholar. She has interned for the US Attorney's Office in New York, Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights, and the State Department. Jennifer plans a legal career that combines scholarship and activism; her interests include the theory and practice of democracy, welfare reform, and the role of economics in administrative agencies. Her research has been published in the Journal of Legal Studies. Now 28, Jennifer was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to parents of Korean descent, who were both naturalized in 1980. They reside in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
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ANDREW PARK is a clerk for Judge Jed Rakoff in the Southern District of New York. In the fall he will clerk for the Hon. Robert A Katzmann on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. He completed his JD at Yale University in 2008 and his DPhil in comparative social policy at Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated with a BA from Harvard University in economics, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. At Harvard University, Andrew was the president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Association and executive vice-president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard University's largest student-run public service organization. He is also an internationally recognized concert pianist who has given solo tours in Japan and across the United States. At Oxford University, he continued his piano performances and worked with the Kigali Public Library Project, an initiative to open the first public library in Rwanda after the genocide. Andrew was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1979 to parents of Korean descent. His mother still resides in Chicago. He hopes to use his legal education to further the progress of civil rights for LGBT Americans and minority populations more broadly.
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ELIZABETH JOY ROE holds an MM in piano performance from the Juilliard School, where she also received her BM degree. She completed a teaching artist fellow for The Academy--A Program of Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute. At the Juilliard School, she participated in the Scholastic Distinction Program, directed a performance project featuring the piano class of 2004, and was a recipient of the John and Henry Steinway Scholarship. Elizabeth has performed as recitalist and concerto soloist throughout the world, at such prestigious venues as the Seoul Arts Center, Salle Cortot in Paris, the Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, the 92nd Street Y, Steinway Hall, Symphony Center in Chicago, Carnegie's Zankel Hall, and the World Piano Pedagogy Conference. Since winning the grand prize in the IBLA International Piano Competition at the age of 13, she has won and participated in numerous piano competitions including the Van Cliburn. Elizabeth was born in 1981 in Aurora, Illinois to parents of Korean descent. She was officially appointed to the Steinway Artist roster. In the fall she will begin a two-year fellowship position as a visiting professor in piano at Smith College.
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JASMIN SETHI is an associate at Mayer Brown LLP in Washington, DC. She finished a clerkship for Judge Jerome Holmes on the Tenth Circuit Court in Oklahoma City. She holds a JD and PhD from Harvard University. She received her BA, magna cum laude, from Harvard University in applied mathematics and economics. A Fulbright Scholar to England, Jasmin received an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics. At Harvard University, Jasmin was an academic advisor and non-resident tutor. She was on the Political Economy Lecture Series Committee and served on the Harvard Graduate Council. She has worked as a research assistant at the Kennedy School of Government, the President's Council of Economic Advisers, the National Economic Research Associates, and the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, DC. Jasmin was born in New York City in 1978 to parents who emigrated from India and are now naturalized citizens. Her mother lives in Elmwood Park, New Jersey. Jasmin seeks to increase opportunities for the disadvantaged both by working to develop social policy legislation and by litigating questions pertaining to the application of federal law and the interpretation of the Constitution.
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ANKUR SHAH has over eight years of experience advising, managing and investing in businesses in the US, Europe and in low-income markets in India. Based in Dubai, Ankur is responsible for building Acumen Fund’s presence in the Middle East and for our global institutional relationships. Prior to joining Acumen Fund, Ankur worked with and advised several private investors and entrepreneurs interested in low-income markets; making financial access and mobile banking investments and developing education, clean water and energy opportunities in India. He began his career with McKinsey & Company advising Fortune 100 companies on M&A and growth opportunities. Ankur also managed a Robin Hood project to reimagine and build libraries in 25+ New York City public schools now serving nearly 20,000 students and helped start a European internet company which raised $150M from private investors. Ankur holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, and a Master of Public Administration in International Development from Harvard’s Kennedy School where he was a Reynolds and a Soros Fellow. Ankur was born in the United States in 1976, and grew up in India.
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NIRAV SHAH is an associate at Sidley Asutin, LLP and a lecturer in the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where he teaches a graduate course in "Public Health and Epidemic Management." He completed his JD and MD at University of Chicago. He received his BS in biology, magna cum laude, with a minor in philosophy from the University of Louisville in Kentucky. As a Rotary International Scholar, he spent a year at St. Anne's College, Oxford University researching and writing on jurisprudence and political theory. As a Henry Luce Scholar, Nirav was the Chief Economist at the National Institute of Public Health in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and a national election monitor there. He continues to serve as an advisor to the Ministry of Justice in Cambodia regarding interpretation of the national anti-corruption law. At Chicago, Nirav worked as a research assistant at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics. In addition, he is the medical coordinator for Sokepheap Kmai, a community health outreach project using volunteers from local clinics that will provide healthcare to underserved Cambodian immigrants. Nirav was born in 1977 in Medford, Wisconsin, to parents who emigrated from Gujarat, India, and are now naturalized citizens. They live in Mayfield, Kentucky. Nirav intends a career in international development, where he can combine his medical and legal educations.
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JEFF SHENG received his MFA in studio art from the University of California at Irvine, where he is preparing for a career as a photographer, a teacher of visual studies, and a social advocate. Jeff is also an adjunct professor at University of California at Santa Barbara. He received his BA, magna cum laude from Harvard University in visual and environmental studies, specifically photography and filmmaking. He spent one year on a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at Peking University in Beijing, China and another one photographing in Mainland China on a Mortimer-Hays Brandeis Traveling Fellowship. In addition to experience with the computer and gallery worlds, Jeff has volunteered for the California Association of Student Councils and taught English as a Second Language at Harvard University. He has exhibited his work at galleries around Boston and has published his photography in such publications as OUT Magazine, The New York Times Magazine and The Boston Globe. Jeff was born in Santa Barbara, California, to parents who emigrated from Taiwan and became naturalized citizens in 1989. They live in Thousand Oaks, California.
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DR. PRABHJOT SINGH works on national health system development, real-time performance monitoring technology and community based service delivery in North America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia. His most recent work as Director of the Program for Health Systems at Columbia University's Earth Institute has focused developing an adaptable and scalable community health worker program in 10 countries. In 2009, he co-founded Community Lab to manage national level scale-up efforts. He has previously worked with the International Rescue Committee, UNDP and Millennium Promise. Dr. Singh has a PhD in Neural and Genetic Systems from Rockefeller University as part of the M.D./Ph.D. program with Weill Cornell Medical College. He was raised in Kenya and lives in Manhattan.
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VIVIANY TAQUETI is a third-year resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. She graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College with a concentration in biochemical sciences, and magna cum laude from Harvard Medical School through the Harvard-MIT division of Health Sciences and Technology. As a Howard Hughes Research Fellow, she studied ways to model cardiac inflammation at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and is co-author of an immunology review text, as well as articles on T cell trafficking, cardiac inflammation, vascular imaging and medical simulation. She has interned at The New England Journal of Medicine and served as editor-in-chief of The Harvard Science Review. As an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, Viviany carried out a project aboard the Family Van, a mobile health center serving Boston's poorest neighborhoods, which facilitated grant support for its fifteen-year anniversary campaign. Viviany is originally from Brazil, and has participated in clinical efforts in the Brazilian Amazon and Mozambique's Gorongosa National Park. During her senior year of residency, she served as chief resident at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, a community affiliate of Mass General. She will begin a fellowship in cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston in July 2010. She intends to pursue interests in cardiovascular medicine and research.
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KATHLEEN TRAN will be a dermatology resident at NYU. She recently completed her MD at University of Pennsylvania. She completed an MSc in medical anthropology and an MSc in comparative social policy at Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She received her bachelor's with three majors -- music, biochemistry, and biology -- from Indiana University at Bloomington, where she was Phi Beta Kappa and a Herman Wells Scholar. Kathleen is an avid pianist and has performed both in the United States and at Oxford University, including benefit performances to raise money for education and development of children with autism. As a writer, she has published in the University of Virginia Literary Magazine and has won awards from the National Foundation for Advancement of the Arts and from Brown University, Purdue University, and Indiana University. She is a member of the American Medical Student Association and has conducted biomedical research at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Kathleen was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas, in 1982. Her parents, immigrants from Vietnam, are naturalized citizens and live in Bloomington, Indiana. She intends a career in clinical medicine, research and public health policy. She spent the summer of 2008 as a Health Policy Fellow in the Office of Rear Admiral Susan Blumenthal (the Former U.S. Assistant Surgeon General) at the Foundation for AIDS Research in Washington, D.C., where she worked primarily on issues surrounding the oft-neglected rise of HIV/AIDS in Asia.
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GABRIEL TSAO is a resident in otolaryngology at Stanford University Hospital and Clinic. He completed his MD at Stanford University in 2008. He graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley with a major in molecular and cell biology with an emphasis on immunology and a minor in English. During his undergraduate career, he founded and directed CASA for Kids at Cal, a nonprofit student organization that mentors and advocates for neglected and abused children, and was awarded the Chancellor's Community Service Award in 2000. Gabriel spent four years performing HIV clinical research at University of California at San Francisco and the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco. He also volunteered as an HIV/AIDS educator in Tanzania following graduation. With an intended career in academic medicine and social advocacy, he is currently studying immune reconstitution in a bone marrow transplant laboratory at Stanford University and serves on the steering committee for the Pacific Free Clinic in San Jose. Gabriel was born in 1979 in Toronto, Canada, to parents of Chinese descent and now holds a green card. His parents live in Palo Alto, California.
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