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Featuring some of our current undergraduate students

Laura D'Asaro

African Studies
Class of 2013

Laura is originally from Seattle, Washington and is a senior in Kirkland house. She is the president of the Harvard College Coalition for East African Peace and the International Coordinator of Wema Children’s Centre, a school and orphanage...

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Desta Lissanu

African Studies
Class of 2013

A native of Somerset, Kentucky, Desta is a rising senior in Pforzheimer House. Desta has devoted the majority of her scholarship at Harvard to studying the intersection of religion, second-generation immigrant identities and youth. This focus...

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ImeIme Umana

African American Studies
Class of 2014

ImeIme Umana is a junior in Lowell House from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She is most interested in the intersection between government and African American studies, hoping to explore how stereotypes of black women are reproduced and reinforced in...

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Victoria Wenger

African American Studies
Class of 2014

Victoria (Tori) Wenger is from Hampton Falls, NH and a member of the Class of 2014 studying African American Studies and Government. Her main academic interest involves the study of government policies and their effects on the perpetuation of...

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