2026-2027 Fellows
Adam Ahmad
Adam is a former financial advisor who is passionate about improving financial literacy programming for emerging adult populations. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Education Policy and Analysis at Harvard Graduate School of Education, where...
Yael Crupnicoff
Yael Crupnicoff is an Ed.M. candidate in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, Yael works at the intersection of educational technology, culture and experience...
Francisca Elgueta
Francisca is a Chilean teacher and educational leader committed to advancing educational justice. A high school history teacher for over 14 years, she has taught in schools serving historically marginalized communities, including schools supporting young...
Tommy Gonzalez
Tommy Gonzalez is pursuing a Doctorate in Education Leadership at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where he explores adaptive leadership, liberatory design, and systems change as tools for sector transformation. An education strategist, former...
Alexis O. Harewood
Alexis O. Harewood is an education and leadership professional with more than a decade of experience spanning K–12 education and education philanthropy. A former Boston Public Schools classroom educator, Alexis has a deep commitment to creating equitable...
Joseph Kemp
Joseph M. Kemp is a corporate attorney, entrepreneur, and education leader focused on expanding access to opportunity through innovation and community impact. He is the founder of Games That Matter, an educational game company for which he was recognized...
De Lu
De Lu is an Ed.M. candidate in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a Risk Analytics Manager at a large national bank. His work has focused on helping older and vulnerable people protect themselves...
Rachid Makra
A Luxembourgish-Moroccan youth protection specialist and systems leader, Rachid Makra is a Master’s candidate in Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship (ELOE) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). His work focuses on...
Paytan Murray
Paytan is an Ed.M. candidate in the Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship program at HGSE. Raised in a low-income household with an incarcerated parent, Paytan learned early how systems can fail families, and made the decision to...
Barbara Mutabazi
Barbara Birungi Mutabazi is a Ugandan social entrepreneur, mother, and institution builder whose work focuses on expanding economic opportunity for women and young people. Over the past 15 years, she has founded and built organizations working across...
Manjari Randeria
Manjari Randeria is an Ed.M candidate in Educational Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concentrating in Global, International, and Comparative Education. Her previous work has focused on non-formal...
Devin Samuels
Devin Samuels is an artist, educator, and social impact strategist, who works at the intersection of innovation and social change. As one of the program leaders at Harvard’s Social Innovation and Change Initiative, he supports educational design, fellow...
Neil Sharma
Neil specializes in mixed-methods program evaluation research while studying how to implement mechanisms that expand higher education access across age and socioeconomic circumstances. A former college dropout, he spent a decade working in food services...
Oleksandra Taranova
Oleksandra Taranova is an Ed.M. candidate in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is Ukrainian and has lived in seven countries across four continents. She loves exploring cultures, and she takes Lev...
Monay Thomas
Monay Thomas is an education and community leader committed to seeing young people discover purpose, flourish, and transform their communities. Her Christian faith is central to how she understands leadership: as a responsibility to serve others with...
Shandrea Wing
Shandrea Wing is an educator and school leader pursuing her Ed.M. in Education Leadership, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her work is grounded in a deep commitment to advancing educational equity and...
