Admissions Ambassadors
Meet our Admissions Student Ambassadors! These enthusiastic students are your guides to campus life, ready to share their firsthand experiences and answer any questions you have about academics, student organizations, living on campus, and more. Whether you attend an info session, meet them at a grad fair, or connect via email, our ambassadors are here to help you envision your future as part of our vibrant community.
Christopher Avalos
christopheravalos@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Christopher is a third-year PhD student in BBS. Originally from Central California, he completed his undergraduate studies at UCLA. There, he participated in the HHMI Pathways to Success program, which focuses on building community for students in science...
Jeremy Bennett
jbennett1@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Jeremy completed his BS at Bates College in Maine, where he was a biology major and chemistry minor. After graduating, Jeremy spent two years as a research technician in the Aydin lab at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he used cryo-EM to...
Ana Dorador
anadorador@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Ana completed her BS in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at the University of Kansas. She studied paramutation in Drosophila virilis . Currently she is investigating how organisms (such as fission yeast) survive a novel transposon invasion...
Maggie Hoare
maggie_hoare@fas.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Maggie completed her BS in Biochemistry at the University of Rochester, where she studied global methionine oxidation utilizing mass spectrometry in Sina Ghaemmaghami’s Lab. Maggie currently studies lysosome homeostasis in Wade Harper’s Lab. Specifically...
Owen Ledwell
owen_ledwell@fas.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Owen started in the BBS program in Fall 2025. Born in Ottawa, Canada, he attended Queen’s University for his undergraduate studies, where he majored in biology and mathematics. Now in the Jänne lab, he focuses on uncovering vulernabilities in non-small...
Wafa Malik
wafamalik@g.harvard.eduGraduate Student
Wafa is a graduate student in the Hata lab within the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) program at Harvard Medical School. For her undergraduate studies, she attended Mount Holyoke College’19 where she majored in Biochemistry. During this time, she...
