#  Affiliates 

 



  [### Abiola Laniyonu

 ](/people/abiola-laniyonu) <abiola.laniyonu@gmail.com>Affiliate

Software Engineer

 

 

 I am a 2013 graduate of Lowell House in Computer Science. I currently work as a software engineer at a network security and threat hunting startup in Cambridge. Around the House, I help organize the Speeches project and have been involved since they began... 

 

 

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   [### Adrienne Boris

 ](/people/adrienne-boris) <adrienne.boris@gmail.com>Executive Producer and Stage Director, Lowell House Opera

 

 

 I am excited to join the Senior Common Room through my work with Lowell House as Executive Producer &amp; Stage Director of Lowell House Opera. I received my MFA in Directing from Boston University in 2015 where I have also served as guest director and... 

 

 

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   [### Alexandra Amati

 ](/people/alexandra-amati) <aamati.sf@gmail.com>Instructor, Harvard Extension School

Professor Emerita of Music, University of San Francisco

 

 

 I am an Italian musicologist, teaching at the Harvard Extension School and a couple of other places. I taught at the University of San Francisco for 25 years, where I created the music program, and am now a Professor Emerita. While I was doing my PhD I... 

 

 

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   [### Amar Dhand

 ](/people/amar-dhand) <adhand@bwh.harvard.edu>Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

 

 

 I am an Assistant Professor at the Harvard Medical School, where I work as a neurologist and network scientist. Based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, I care for patients in a clinic open for students to participate. My research examines how social... 

 

 

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   [### Ann Georgi

 ](/people/ann-georgi) <ageorgi@fas.harvard.edu>Affiliate

Former Faculty Dean of Leverett House

Life Sciences

 

 

 

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   [### Azmar Williams

 ](/people/azmar-williams) <azmarwilliams@g.harvard.edu>Affiliate

History

 

 

 I'm a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at Harvard. My research focuses on race and the development of higher education in the post-emancipation United States. Born and raised in North Carolina, I received my B.A. in History and African... 

 

 

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   [### Benjamin P Wenzelberg

 ](/people/benjamin-p-wenzelberg)Affiliate

Conductor and Composer

 

 

 I’m a Harvard College alumnus (AB ’21) now based between the East coast and Amsterdam, working as a conductor, composer, countertenor and pianist. I wrote a new opera commissioned by Lowell House Opera, NIGHTTOWN, in 2022, and conducted its World Premiere... 

 

 

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   [### Bill Lee

 ](/people/bill-lee) <william.lee@wilmerhale.com>Affiliate

Partner, WilmerHale

 

 

 Bill Lee is a partner at WilmerHale and is one of the country’s foremost trial, appellate and intellectual property lawyers. He has tried more than 200 cases, both jury and jury-waived, to judgment and argued more than 100 appeals before the Court of... 

 

 

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   [### Bo Seo

 ](/people/bo-seo)Affiliate

Law, Public Policy

 

 

 Hello there! I am a journalist and aspiring lawyer. Born in South Korea and raised in Australia, then educated at Harvard and Tsinghua, I have relied on strong communities my whole life--and look forward to contributing what I can to Lowell House. As an... 

 

 

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   [### Christian Lane

 ](/people/christian-lane) <christian.lane@mac.com>Affiliate

Concert Organist

Former Organist at Memorial Church

 

 

 I am a professional musician: concert organist, church musician, teacher, and more! Formerly an organist in Memorial Church and once a resident tutor in Lowell, I am currently a visiting professor of organ at McGill University in Montréal. While often... 

 

 

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   [### Christopher Afendulis

 ](/people/christopher-afendulis) [christopher\_afendulis@harvard.edu](mailto:christopher_afendulis@harvard.edu)Associate of the Faculty of Arts &amp; Sciences

 

 

 

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   [### Dan Rosenberg

 ](/people/dan-rosenberg) <akayama@fas.harvard.edu>Lecture Demonstrator, FAS Science Education

 

 

 In college (Harvard ’85), I gravitated to courses heavy with physical demonstrations, and I chose performance science as a career. I am a happy, hard science nerd, user of tools, friend of the social sciences and humanities. Science Lecture Demonstrations... 

 

 

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   [### Diane Lopez

 ](/people/diane-lopez) [diane\_lopez@harvard.edu](mailto:diane_lopez@harvard.edu)Affiliate

Former Vice President of the Office of General Counsel

 

 

 I am a lawyer, having attended Columbia Law School. I practiced “big law” in Manhattan before joining Harvard’s General Counsel’s Office, where I currently am the Vice President and General Counsel. I would love to connect with students contemplating a... 

 

 

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   [### Eileen Finan

 ](/people/eileen-finan) <etfinan57@gmail.com>Affiliate

Former University Attorney, Office of General Counsel

 

 

 After serving as a longstanding member of Harvard’s Office of the General Counsel for 27 years, I retired in October 2024. In my earlier life I earned a Ph.D. in English from Rutgers University, where I also served as Managing Editor of Rutgers University... 

 

 

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   [### Eshwan Ramudu

 ](/people/eshwan-ramudu-0) <eshwan.ramudu@gmail.com>Affiliate

Data Scientist, United Health Group

 

 

 Eshwan is a Data Scientist at United Health Group, where he builds machine learning models for risk modeling of health insurance members. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Harvard, majoring in Engineering Sciences, and completed a PhD in Fluid... 

 

 

      ![Eshwan Ramudu](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/lowell/files/headshot_eshwanramudu.jpeg?itok=Rx8BpG0x) 

 

 

 

   [### Florence Ladd

 ](/people/florence-ladd) <fcladd@gmail.com>Director of the Bunting Institute, Emeritus

 

 

 I received a B.S. from Howard University and a Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Rochester. After a teaching career (Simmons College, Robert College, the American College for Girls in Istanbul, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and... 

 

 

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   [### Gary Geissler

 ](/people/gary-geissler) <garygeissler19@gmail.com>Affiliate

Board Certified Sports Physical Therapist

Former Clinical Director of Rehabilitation, Department of Athletics

 

 

 After 25 years as Clinical Director of Rehabilitation for the Department of Athletics, I retired to private practice in 2016. I have maintained my Harvard relationship with Lowell House SCR, which I cherish. I am an active member of our Lowell House... 

 

 

      ![Gary](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/lowell/files/geisslerg_3_1.jpeg?itok=4RI7hZCn) 

 

 

 

   [### Gerald Chan

 ](/people/gerald-chan) <glchan@morningside.com>Co-Founder and Director, Morningside Group

 

 

 My two Harvard degrees are in medical radiological physics and radiation biology. After a post-doctoral fellowship in pathology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, I left academia and began my career in investments. I was early in investing in the first... 

 

 

      ![CHAN](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-02/CHAN.jpg?h=3c297c01&itok=9FVjlFSb) 

 

 

 

   [### Graeme Bird

 ](/people/graeme-bird) <bird@g.harvard.edu>Lecturer, Harvard Extension School

Professor of Linguistics and Classics, Gordon College

 

 

 I’m originally from New Zealand; my interests include jazz piano, Homeric poetry, and Ancient Greek mathematics. I have given lecture/performances at Oxford, Columbia and Paris on the relationship between Homer and jazz improvisation. I teach a course... 

 

 

      ![BIRD](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-02/BIRD.png?h=da83660f&itok=2y8fBg9Q) 

 

 

 

   [### Greg Kestin

 ](/people/greg-kestin) <kestin@fas.harvard.edu>Lecturer on Physics

Associate Director of Science Education

 

 

 I am a Lecturer in the Physics Department and also serve as the Associate Director of Science Education in FAS. I grew up in Ohio and came to Harvard for graduate school, where I earned my Ph.D. as a member of The Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature... 

 

 

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   [### Gregg Glover

 ](/people/gregg-glover) <glovergr@gmail.com>Affiliate

Educational Consultant

 

 

 Greetings, Lowell! I’m currently a Senior Associate at Isaacson, Miller, an executive search consulting firm specializing in recruiting leaders for mission-driven organizations in the civic sector. My career in higher education has spanned over 30 years... 

 

 

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   [### Hasit Shah

 ](/people/hasit-shah) <hasit.shah.london@gmail.com>Affiliate

Journalist, The New York Times

 

 

 I am a British journalist and writer, currently working on a book about Prince. I was a Nieman-Berkman Fellow in Journalism Innovation here at Harvard, followed by research positions at the university's Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society, and... 

 

 

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   [### Janet Echelman

 ](/people/janet-echelman) <echelman@post.harvard.edu>Affiliate

Fiber Artist

 Harvard Board of Overseers

 

 

 Come talk to me if you’re interested in art, or unconventional career paths. I’m an artist who produces soft billowing sculpture the scale of buildings that are animated by environmental forces like wind, water, and sunlight. (Check out my art at www... 

 

 

      ![ECHELMAN](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-03/ECHELMAN.png?h=587eb42e&itok=hKUx3kwU) 

 

 

 

   [### Jennifer 8 Lee

 ](/people/jennifer-8-lee) <jenny@jennifer8lee.com>Affiliate

Journalist, Entrepreneur

Documentary Producer, Emoji Activist

 

 

 I'm a journalist, entrepreneur, documentary producer, and emoji activist. I graduated with a degree in Applied Math and Economics from Harvard, where I was vice president of The Harvard Crimson and lived in Pforzheimer House. Now I'm CEO of Plympton, a... 

 

 

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   [### Jerome Offord, Jr.

 ](/people/jerome-offord-jr) [jerome\_offord@harvard.edu](mailto:jerome_offord@harvard.edu)Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Antiracism

 

 

 Expanding upon the library’s strong record of diversity initiatives, the AUL for Antiracism collaborates extensively to develop strategies for systemic change through the library’s workforce, services, collections, and spaces. Before joining Harvard... 

 

 

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   [### Jesse Amato-Grill

 ](/people/jesse-amata-grill) <jesse.amatogrill@gmail.com>Affiliate

Engineering

 

 

 I am a physicist working on quantum technologies at a startup in Boston. I attended Harvard for my PhD, where I was inexorably drawn into Lowell's orbit by the vibrant and welcoming community. I love talking about science and technology, their effects on... 

 

 

      ![Jesse Amata-Grill](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/lowell/files/jamato2.jpeg?itok=z1FpBPmv) 

 

 

 

   [### Jim Stockard

 ](/people/jim-stockard) <stockard@gsd.harvard.edu>Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design, Harvard Graduate School of Design

 

 

 I retired as Curator of the Loeb Fellowship at the Graduate School of Design in 2014. As Curator, I directed a program of independent study for mid-career practitioners in fields related to the built and natural environment. I still teach courses in... 

 

 

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   [### John Shutkin

 ](/people/john-shutkin) [jas\_230@msn.com](mailto:jas_230@msn.com)Affiliate

Law, Non-Profit Organizations

Lowell House Opera Board

 

 

 I am a ‘71 alum of Lowell House and Harvard College (A.B., Magna Cum Laude, Anthropology) and I then received a J. D. from Columbia Law School in 1974. When in Lowell House, I was on the House Committee for two years and was its Chair in 1970-71, at which... 

 

 

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   [### Juan Jaime De Zengotita

 ](/people/juan-jaime-de-zengotita) <zengo@post.harvard.edu>Affiliate

Medicine

 

 

 Most of my time I am a primary care doctor, but I am also the medical director of the Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center, a hospital-run community health center. We serve a diverse population, but many of our patients are Spanish speaking. As part of... 

 

 

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   [### June Carolyn Erlick

 ](/people/june-carolyn-erlick) <jerlick@fas.harvard.edu>Editor-in-Chief of ReVista

Publications Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

 

 

 June Carolyn Erlick is the editor-in-chief of ReVista, the Harvard Review of Latin America at Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard. She also teaches journalism at Harvard Extension and Summer Schools and serves as... 

 

 

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