2017 Speeches

 

Grace Chen - "Show Up, Speak Up"

(advised by Diana Eck)

January 24, 2017

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Samarth Gupta - "Let's Grab A Meal"

(advised by Cassie Robertson)

January 24, 2017

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Lauren Volpert - "Matzo Ball Soup For The Soul"

(advised by Kelly Miller)

January 25, 2017

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James Bollinger - "Writing Home"

(advised by Brett Flehinger)

January 25, 2017

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Claire Benoit - "The House of Being"

(advised by Brandon Terry)

January 26, 2017

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Ola Morehead - "Prizefighter"

(advised by Allie Feldberg)

January 26, 2017

 

Sophia Lugo - "How Long?"

(advised by Steve Coit)

January 29, 2017

 

Kevin Sani - "The Lessons of Twinship"

(advised by David Kim)

January 29, 2017

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Delfina Martinez-Pandiani - "Exposed"

(advised by Brandon Terry)

January 31, 2017

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Gaby Czarniak - "Fluidity and Fluency"

(advised by Sheggai Tamerat-Terry)

January 31, 2017

 

Elizabeth Hubbard - "Lost and Found"

(advised by Meghan Blumstein)

February 1, 2017

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Matthew McCalla - "Boundless Gratitude: The Things I Learned From Being Loved"

(advised by William Doss Suter)

February 1, 2017

 

Michael Sanky - "My Speech"

(advised by Evan Price)

February 2, 2017

 

Henry Johnson - "Field Guide"

(advised by Daniel Adler)

February 2, 2017

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Alex Raun - "Little Red"

(advised by Kelly Miller)

February 7, 2017

 

Juan Miramontes - "Sibling Rivalry"

(advised by Jonathan Bruno)

February 7, 2017

 

Flavia Cuervo - "More than Mojitos"

(advised by Caitlin Casey)

February 8, 2017

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Taiga Abe - "Rubber Duck Introspection"

(advised by Michael Uy)

February 8, 2017

 

Tina Murphy - "When I Grow Up"

(advised by Jessica Yarmakovich)

February 9, 2017

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Brooke Sweeney - "I Shouldn't Have So Many Shoulds"

(advised by Eli Schachar)

February 9, 2017

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Hanson Tam - "What I Learned From My Sister"

(advised by Diana Eck)

February 12, 2017

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Layla Joudeh - "For Jido"

(advised by Jonathan Bruno)

February 12, 2017

 

Matthew Miller - "Why I Want to Raise Sheep (and Other Dreams of Culinary Misadventure)"

(advised by Ben Levy)

February 14, 2017

 

Kristina Madjoska - "The Unbearable Lightness of Fighting for Freedom"

(advised by Paul Buttenwieser)

February 14, 2017

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Melissa Joseph - "Bahay Ko"

(advised by Cassie Roberston)

February 15, 2017

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Abbie Higgins - "Three Years Later"

(advised by H.H. Kang)

February 15, 2017

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Leore Lavin - "Giving Shelter"

(advised by Allie Feldberg)

February 16, 2017

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Amanda Jowell - "Not Knowing"

(advised by Jonathan Bruno)

February 16, 2017

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Jeffery Durand - "Haiku for Happiness"

(advised by Marina Connelly)

February 19, 2017

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Julian Salazar - "One Hundred Years of Plenitude"

(advised by Arjumand Masood)

February 19, 2017

 

Wayne Zhao - "Attraction to Attraction"

(advised by Daria Van Tyne)

February 20, 2017

 

Mary Grace Darmody - "Snow Tires and Miami Drivers"

(advised by Monica Bell)

February 20, 2017

 

Elias Tuomaala - "Citizen"

(advised by Ben Levy)

February 21, 2017

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Raynor Kuang - "So How Does the Datamatch Algorithm Work Anyway?"

(advised by Michael Uy)

February 21, 2017

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Pulkit Agarwal - "I Can't Get No Satisfaction"

(advised by Jonathan Fanton)

February 22, 2017

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Catherine Li - "Shanghai, Undercover"

(advised by Steve Coit)

February 22, 2017

 

Adrian Horton - "Watching the Clock"

(advised by Gail Gilmore)

February 23, 2017

 

 

Matthew Casso - "Fights"

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

February 23, 2017

 

Margaret Irving - "Home Is Where The Harvard Is"

(advised by Michael Uy)

February 25, 2017

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Hope Ndhlovu - "Everything Goes in America"

(advised by Daniel Adler)

February 25, 2017

 

Andrew Hess - "Lessons from Behind Enemy Lines"

(advised by Kevin Connolly)

February 26, 2017

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Alex Wang - "O Brother, What Art Thou?"

(advised by Michael Zuckerman)

February 26, 2017

 

Lawrence Wang - "The Act of Building with One's Own Mind"

(advised by Francisco Prado-Vilar)

February 28, 2017

 

Michael Uy - "31"

(advised by Sandy Alexander)

February 28, 2017

 

Michael Kikukawa - "Practicing Persistence"

(advised by Caroline Cox)

March 1, 2017

 

George Torres - "Contraptions"

(advised by Arthur Jaffe)

March 1, 2017

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Kelsey O'Connor - "Husband of Great-Aunt of Husband of Sister-in-Law of Sister"

(advised by Caitlin Casey)

March 2, 2017

 

Ben Kelly - "Let It Grow"

(advised by Jonathan Bruno)

March 7, 2017

 

Makinde Ogunnaike - "Forever a Foreigner"

(advised by Brandon Terry)

March 7, 2017

 

Julian Nunally - "Turn Your Test Into Your Testimony"

(advised by Chavis Jones)

March 8, 2017

 

Khalid Tawil - "Finding Our Way"

(advised by Diana Eck and William Doss Suter)

March 8, 2017

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