Our Team

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Staff

Ning Zou

Associate Director for Student Academic Services & Learning Design
Ning oversees the HGSE's student academic services ranging from writing, verbal communication, AI to library research, teaching, and learning. She provides programming, coaches students, and partners with related offices. She works closely with all the...
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Data & Visualization Lab

Lindsay Whitacre

Assistant Director for Open Scholarship & Data Services Librarian
Lindsay's work focuses on best practices for finding, understanding, organizing, cleaning, and using data for strengthening arguments and research. She believes everyone should have a basic understanding of data, what it can do, and how it affects...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab

Max Lu

AI Lab Fellow

Max Lu is a Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

His research interests lie at the intersection of technology, media, and learning science. He is particularly enthusiastic about applying Humanistic Intelligence (HI) principles to...

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Ally Speiser

AI Lab Fellow

Ally is an Ed.M. student in Learning Design, Innovation and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is passionate about creating spaces where learning happens through joy, collaboration and curiosity. Her interest in AI is through a...

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Bushra Zubair

AI Lab Fellow
Bushra Zubair is an Ed.M. student in Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is interested in the intersection of artificial intelligence, human-centered design, and learning, with a focus on designing...
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Communications Lab (CommLab)

Ariel Tan

CommLab Fellow
Guicheng “Ariel” Tan is a Ph.D. student and presidential scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Human Development, Learning, and Teaching. As a researcher, Ariel is interested in how people process and integrate multiple...
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Writing Center

Ben Blanco

Writing Fellow
Ben Blanco is a PhD Candidate in Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. His research focuses on how youth migrants and youth living in communities with out-migration develop their migration and educational goals.
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Moisés Contreras

Writing Fellow
Moisés G. Contreras is a fifth-year Education PhD student in the Culture, Institutions, and Society concentration at Harvard University. He is interested in the promise and potential of liberatory and humanizing education occurring within community-based...
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Darien Dey

Writing Fellow
Darien Dey is a PhD student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research explores the history of Black education in the British West Indies, particularly in Guyana, where she grew up. She is broadly interested in examining how African...
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Jen Ha

Lead Writing Fellow
Jen Ha is a PhD student in the Culture, Institutions, and Society concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research draws on qualitative methods to examine how high school and undergraduate students produce personal narratives for...
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Zora Haque

Writing Fellow
Zora Haque is a PhD Candidate in Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, with a concentration in Culture, Institutions, and Society (CIS). Her research sits at the intersection of education, race and ethnicity, gender, and...
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Woohee Kim

Writing Fellow
Woohee Kim is a PhD student studying civic and pedagogical practices of youth who remember and reckon with injustices across borders. Woohee seeks to interrogate how educational spaces are shaped as cultural and political sites and reshaped as sites of...
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Caroline Tucker

Writing Fellow
Caroline Tucker is a PhD Candidate in the Culture, Institutions, and Society concentration at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Her research focuses on American higher education history, social mobility, and institutional administrative...
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