Gurchit Chatha graduated from UCB in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science and a concentration in Quantitative Methods. He’s passionate about problem-solving and hopes to spend his Schwarzman year exploring Chinese technological innovation in the wake of rapid urbanization and power transition theory...

Wan Fang Chiu studied Computer Science and Molecular & Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received the computer science department citation in 2017. As an MD candidate in the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology, Wan Fung conducted AI and pathology research in collaboration with PathAI and leads the HMS chapter of...

Gabrielle Corona was born in Las Vegas, Nevada, to Mexican immigrants. Her father migrated to the United States from Sinaloa and her mother migrated from Sonora. She was raised in East Las Vegas, a predominantly working-class immigrant community. Her academic and life goals are deeply shaped by her witnessing the struggles of incarcerated people and their families....

Naveen Durvasula is a sophomore majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Business Administration through the Management, Entrepreneurship, and Technology program at UCB. He's interested in problems at the intersection of computational learning theory, economics, and machine learning. After graduation, he intends to get a PhD in computer...

Xinyi (Michelle) Fang graduated from UCB in 2019 with a degree in Media Studies. At Cal, she worked closely with female-led and Asian-led philanthropies such as the Malala Fund and the AAPI Bone Marrow Donor Program. In 2017, she was part of the team that launched the inaugural Future Forum Beijing, a non-profit organization that aims to promote fundamental science...

Blue Fay graduated from UC Berkeley in December 2020 with a BA in Legal Studies and a minor in Chinese. While learning Mandarin, he developed a deep interest in Redology — the study of Cao Xue-qin’s The Dream of the Red Chamber. In the Spring of 2020, he was awarded the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures’ inaugural YR Chao Prize for an essay...

Justin Hogenauer is a junior pursuing simultaneous degrees in Society & Environment and Business Administration at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to studying Thai, he serves as a squadron commander in Air Force ROTC and as an undergraduate academic peer advisor for the Rausser College of Natural Resources. Justin is the Student Director for the...

Tafadzwa Marombedza studied Political Economy at UC Berkeley as a MasterCard Scholar from Zimbabwe and served as the President of the Organization of African Students. Currently, he is an Emerging Markets Analyst at Deutsche Bank in New York. He is passionate about the African growth story and envisions a world where global capital can be redirected to...

Nicholas Shafer is a recent 2020 UCB grad in Anthropology & Near Eastern Languages and Literatures (Arabic). He was a 2019 recipient of the Boren Scholarship, a Fulbright Grant recipient, and a 2020 ...

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Anthony is a budding bioengineer and a maker education advocate. As a second-year Bioengineering undergraduate at UC Berkeley, he's pursuing his passion for agricultural technologies through NASA's Growing Beyond Earth contest and exploring his interest in alternative protein...

Alexander Zhao will graduate in spring 2021 with a B.A. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Alexander published research on biased algorithms and recommender systems and currently serves as an editor for the data projects team for The Daily Californian. Alexander hopes to improve our ability to assess fairness in...