#  Admissions Ambassadors 

 



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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

 ](/people/christopher-avalos) [christopher\_avalos@hms.harvard.edu](mailto:christopher_avalos@hms.harvard.edu)Graduate 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... 

 

 

      ![Avalos](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-03/Chris_Avalos.jpg?itok=3LLTL97W) 

 

 

 

   [### Jeremy Bennett

 ](/people/jeremy-bennett) <jbennett1@g.harvard.edu>Graduate 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... 

 

 

      ![Jeremy](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Jeremy.png?h=5c863b78&itok=U4PQZWbr) 

 

 

 

   [### Ana Dorador

 ](/people/ana-dorador) <anadorador@g.harvard.edu>Graduate 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... 

 

 

      ![Ana](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Screenshot%202025-09-12%20at%201.52.35%E2%80%AFPM.png?itok=yNAF5Nm3) 

 

 

 

   [### Maggie Hoare

 ](/people/maggie-hoare) [maggie\_hoare@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:maggie_hoare@fas.harvard.edu)Graduate 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... 

 

 

      ![Maggie](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-02/MargaretHoare_photo_0.JPEG?h=4723c570&itok=drG98sQK) 

 

 

 

   [### Wafa Malik

 ](/people/wafa-malik) <wafamalik@g.harvard.edu>Graduate 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... 

 

 

      ![Wafa](/sites/g/files/omnuum5321/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-09/Wafa.png?h=690fcc37&itok=T2K213et)