Resident Tutors
Your search matched 23 records.Barrett-Osahar Berry
berry@fas.harvard.eduGovernment, Religion
I-03 | 3-2127
Barrett-Osahar Berry was born in South Bend, Indiana and spent his early years on the campus of Notre Dame University where his mother worked. His formative years were spent in Torrance, California where he grew to love the surf, sand, and sun in between his long days of playing basketball and cycling. He is a Catherine B. Reynolds Fellow at the JFK School of Government. He attended Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia where he served as the student government president, board of trustees’ member, and two terms as the president of the National Black Student Government Association. Instead of playing basketball he developed passion for public service which enveloped into a passion for politics. His first job in politics (while a senior in college) was in the Georgia State Assembly as the chief of staff to a senior state senator. Prior to moving to Washington, DC, Berry organized and produced two 50th birthday galas for President Bill Clinton in Alabama and Georgia. After these events, he was captured by the political bug and began a formal career in politics as a White House appointee where he served at the Department of State, Small Business Administration, and White House. He found his position as the speechwriter to a member of the President’s Cabinet his most rewarding and enjoyable. Recently, he served as the Faith Community Manager for the Deval Patrick Campaign for Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Berry enjoys writing poetry and political prose, cycling, talking politics, spending time at the beach, and planning the next political roundtable. Feel free to stop him to talk about the upcoming presidential election…he is still undecided.
Elizabeth Blair
blairel@gse.harvard.eduEducation, SASH
F-11 | 3-6662
Liz is a third year doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education in human development and education, where she studies adolescent romantic relationships and identity development. She grew up in Pittsburgh,PA and then headed to Swarthmore College where she met her husband Dave Plante. After college she lived in Minneapolis, Philly, and Chapel Hill, NC before settling down in Cambridge for grad school. Liz likes reading novels, watching movies, writing, and swimming. She is looking forward baking study break goodies this year in her new kitchen in F-11.
Tim Buschman
buschman@mit.eduScience
A-33 | 3-2017
I grew up in Baltimore, MD before moving to outside Washington, DC for high school, then onto Pasadena, CA for an undergraduate degree from Caltech. After I spent a year at NIH doing a postbaccaleurate internship, I decided that I hadn't gotten a broad enough education from Caltech, so I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at MIT, where I am studying neuroscience. I am one of the resident science tutors and am also involved with house athletics. I was a four year letterman in baseball at Caltech (read as: I showed up), and am always up for some pickup sports. In addtition, despite this blurb making me sound very cool, I am deep down a huge nerd and always love to talk about nerd stuff. I also love animals and we have a dog which everyone is welcome to visit at A-33 anytime...
Otto Coontz
ofcoontz@fas.harvard.eduCreative Writing
B-22 | 3-2038
When he's not entrenched in the bureaucratic funhouse of C-18, where he will be your guide through the labyrinth of forms, policies and procedures which Harvard requires before you so much as sneeze, you'll find Otto in B-22 at work on his next book (his previous novels and children's books, which he also illustrated, have been published here and in the UK, and in Japanese and Spanish translations). If you see him in the Dining Hall or out and about with Pip, he welcomes you all to pull up a chair or come along on a stroll. Should you find yourself struggling with a paper, a screenplay, a valentine or a poison pen letter, he's always available to talk about any aspect of writing, from organizing your thoughts to getting them down on paper, breaking through writer's block, acquiring an agent, working with editors, working alone. Watch for postings of informal meals with authors, journalists, playwrights and others in writing careers, as well as the thesis workshops for Seniors this fall and the Thesis Show for all in the spring.
Matthew Corriel
corriel@fas.harvard.eduMusic and Drama
C-22 | 3-2073
Hi Adams! I grew up in Nanuet NY, a small town 19 miles northwest of New York City. I was Adams '05 - living in C44, B32 and B12 – and graduated from the Literature Department with a focus on French-speaking literatures, notoriously writing my thesis on Jackson Browne and T.S. Eliot. Since graduation, I've been living in Boston and working as a musical theatre songwriter and music director. Three of my musicals were written and produced (in MA, CT, and NY) in the two years since graduation, and I've music directed with Camp Broadway, Boston Children's Theatre, and the Hasty Pudding. I'm thrilled to be drama and BGLT tutor in Adams this year, so come talk to me about any and all things drama, be they the joys and dramas of the theatre or the joys and dramas of gay and lesbian life. Other favorite topics of discussion include Moliere, the worthiness of bringing non-traditional figures into the academic spotlight, putting the B in BGLT, chocolates, living your dream, and vespa scooters. I write from home, so in the words of Three's Company, come and knock on my door. There will likely be Entenmann's.
Jade D'Alpoim Guedes
jguedes@fas.harvard.eduArcheology and East Asian Studies
C-33 | 3-2081
I was born to a Mozambican dad and a Danish mom in Miami but grew up mostly in Africa, Europe and Australia. At age 16 I left home to work in fashion but soon missed academia and decided to pursue a degree in Tibetan and Himalayan studies in Paris. Having fallen in love with the City of Light, I stayed on to study Sinology and Art History/Archeology. It was also in a Parisian museum where I met my husband Chunbai... After spending a year in Beijing brushing up on my Chinese and planning my wedding in Shanghai, I came to Harvard to pursue a PhD in Archaeology.
Prior to coming to Cambridge, I spent time working at museums like the Met and the Louvre and spent inordinate amounts of time bumming around the French and Chinese countryside doing archaeological fieldwork. In my spare time, I love screening silent films in the Pool and cooking up wonders with the Adams House Culinary Club which I coordinate with Sherry. My husband Chunbai grew up in Shanghai but moved to the US at age 15. After finishing medical school at Dartmouth, he is currently a resident physician in Internal Medicine with interest in public health/environmental health and would love to answer any questions you have about a career in medicine. Chunbai loves watching foreign films, plays chess/piano, photography, analyzing modern Chinese society, practicing Chinese calligraphy and traveling. If you don't have enough drama in your life already and are planning a production, come chat to me about ideas, tech or using the Pool. Feel free to drop by C-33 to talk to us about anything from study/living abroad, pre-med, picking a concentration, graduate school, all matters Chinese, drama, or just to speak a different language.
Sherry Deckman
deckmash@gse.harvard.eduEducation and Public Service
B-31 | 3-2044
Originally from central Pennsylvania, coming to Harvard was Sherry's first time living outside of the Mid-Atlantic region aside from a one-year stint with the JET Programme in Fukuoka, Japan. Sherry is a second year doctoral student at the Graduate School of Education where she studies issues of diversity in classrooms and teacher training/professional development around the "hidden curriculum" of schools. Before coming to HGSE, she worked as a both a Teach For America corps member and staff member in Washington, DC and Brooklyn, New York, respectively. She became interested in working on issues of social justice and educational equity as an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in Communications and minored in Spanish and Urban Studies. In her free time Sherry loves finding great brunch places (with vegetarian options), cooking, and watching films. She is also always on the lookout for free entertainment/events in the city. Stop by B-31 to chat about opportunities in public service and education, race relations, or just to debate the merits of Pedro Almodovar's latest film.
Brian Emeott
bemeott@law.harvard.eduLaw, Politics, Government
C-16 | 3-7423
Born in Flint, Michigan, I arrived to Cambridge as a Harvard undergrad surprised to see that not all of the country drives American cars. I graduated from Dunster House with a degree in Government in 2004 and entered Harvard Law the following fall. During my first year of law school I applied for and received a Zuckerman Fellowship to pursue a joint master's degree in public policy from the Kennedy School. During undergrad I was involved in water polo and Dunster HoCo. I am interested in criminal law, domestic public policy, American politics, and all things Michigan. My thoughts about law school and life in general are all over the map. If yours are too, feel free to come hash them out in C-16 where I live with my fiancée Claudine.
Molly Greene
mgreene@gmail.comEducation and Public Service
CL-50 | 3-3448
I just finished my master's degree in Higher Education at HGSE, where my area of interest was community-based learning (aka. "activity based learning" here at Harvard): creating opportunities for college students to forge deeper connections between their academic coursework and their public service activities. I am now the Boston Director of a nonprofit organization called the Peer Health Exchange (www.peerhealthexchange.org), which trains college students—including a large group at Harvard—to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public schools that lack health education. I graduated from Amherst College in 2001, and prior to coming to HGSE spent 5 years working for another nonprofit called WorldTeach—including 2.5 years living and teaching in Ecuador. My role in the house will be as a Public Service tutor, but I also would love to talk to people about education, working/studying abroad, theater, traveling, bluegrass music and anything involving the outdoors—I am an avid runner, hiker, swimmer and Ultimate Frisbee player.
Sarah Henrickson
sarah_henrickson@student.hms.harvard.eduPre-Med/Health Science and Wellness
A-33 | 3-2017
Sarah was born 27 years ago in Toronto (yup, that's in Canada!) and moved to DC in fifth grade and stayed there through high school, where she met Tim (who she later, much later, married). She came to Harvard for undergrad, lived far away in Mather and concentrated in biochem, class of 2001. She also spent way too much time doing photography at the Crimson, working on patient advocacy issues and in lab.
She and Tim took a year off after college and worked at NIH and got married. They moved back to Boston in 2002 and she started the Harvard MD/Ph.D. program. She just finished her fifth year of the program and is now in the fourth year of her Immunology Ph.D. at HMS. We had our son Ryan this past summer, July 31st, and we're now learning to live without sleep, and enjoying every minute of it! If you like kids, please come meet Ryan. If you don't, he might just convince you!
She loves being in Adams and have more free time than she did in medical school, so she's been able to get back to photography, travel, and trying new restaurants. So, if you're missing your pets at home, feel free to drop by A-33 and meet their dog Casey! Sarah's a premed tutor as well as a wellness tutor, so also feel free to ask any questions about those big decisions (MD vs. PhD vs. MD/PhD vs. making money) as well as any ideas you have for making people here happy and healthy.
Tom Howell
tshowell@fas.harvard.eduArt
I-11 | 3-2138
Hi! I'm thrilled to be back as Adams House's Resident Visual Artist. I have a B.F.A. in Fine Art (Sculpture) from the University of Connecticut and an M.F.A. in Sculpture from MassArt. When I'm not chasing my 5 year old son (Ethan) or 2 year old daughter (Maggie) around the tunnels, you can usually find me working away on my latest sculpture project in the ArtSpace. I also love playing IM ice hockey, reading essays, lobstering, and... discovering what you Adamsians are most passionate about...so, let's have a meal!
Katy Kozhimannil
kbackes@fas.harvard.eduHealth Policy and Fellowships
A-13 | 3-2002
The daughter of a teacher and a fisherman, Katy grew up in Eastern North Dakota and Northern Minnesota, where she developed a deep appreciation for campfires, prairie sunsets, and making snowmen. She earned her B.A. in International Relations and Spanish at the University of Minnesota, received an M.P.A. in Public Policy and Development Studies at Princeton, and is now working toward a Ph.D. in Health Policy, focusing on program and policy evaluation in maternal and reproductive health. Katy has had the very good fortune of working, traveling, and researching in places she'd never expected to go and meeting a host of interesting characters along the way, including her husband Thomas whom she met while they were both in the Peace Corps in Mozambique. Katy is one of your Fellowships tutors, and she and Parker both appreciate conversation about finding ways to pursue life's passions - both academic and personal. One of Katy's personal passions is savoring any variety of coffee and/or tea. If you are similarly inclined, stop by A-13, or meet her at breakfast for the first cup of the day.
Thomas Kozhimannil
tkoz@post.harvard.eduMedicine
A-13 | 3-2002
Thomas graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2006 and is a resident in anesthesiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He grew up in Queens, NY and studied history at the University at Buffalo. After college, Thomas spent two years abroad as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mozambique, where he taught secondary school biology. His "doting" wife Katy served in the same group of volunteers. Thomas is an outdoors enthusiast, and his passions are hiking and fishing. He can often be found down by the Charles, tossing a baseball, football or frisbee. As a Mets fan, he shares with Boston locals the same contempt for that other New York baseball team. As a pre-medical tutor, he is here to help with the decision to apply to medical school and the application process. Thinking of taking time off first? Talk with Thomas. Also find him to chew the fat about baseball, hiking in the White Mountains, and the euphoria of ice-fishing. Never ice-fished before? Stop by A-13 to hear the winter lore!
Michael Nitsch
nitsch@fas.harvard.eduGovernment and Sophomore Advising Coordinator
E-12 | 3-27189
Hello there. I grew up around New York City before coming to Harvard for undergrad in 2000. In college, you would have found me much of the time just up the street from Adams, working for the photography board of the Crimson. After thinking long and hard about law school during my senior year, I decided to get a Ph.D. in political theory instead, and I wound up staying here at Harvard in the Government Department. I serve as government tutor for Adams house, so let me know if you have questions about the department, or if you just want to shoot the breeze about politics, theory, or grad school. I'm also coordinating the new Sophomore Advising program here in the House. I have spent three recent summers in Germany and France, and I love talking about travel. In my spare time, I enjoy getting into Boston, and I stay active mainly through squash and tennis, but I'm up for just about anything. I'm very excited to be back for a second year, and if we haven't yet met, I hope we remedy that soon!
David Plante
plante@fas.harvard.eduMedicine
F-11 | 3-6662
David is a fourth year resident in the Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital Psychiatry residency training program who is also a very excited member of the pre-med committee at Adams. Originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, he has found himself more than a few times in the Northern U.S. in desperate search of good barbeque and fried okra. The first was when he attended Swarthmore College as an undergraduate, where he majored in Biology and Women's Studies. There, he met the wonderful Liz Blair, whom he now admits is his "clearly my better-half." He went home to Chapel Hill for Medical School, attending UNC and graduating in 2004. As a med student and resident, David has cultivated a love for sleep disorders. While awake, David loves college basketball, chatting about nearly every topic, and reminiscing about warmer climates. Feel free to stop by F-11 anytime for some Southern hospitality!
Greg Scally
gscally@law.harvard.eduPre-Law
G-43 | 3-2125
Greg was raised in Anaheim, CA, but was not so lucky to work at Disneyland like his brother. He majored in philosophy and minored in math at UC Berkeley, before going to China to teach English and publish a book on ESL. Between some stints tending bar in San Francisco and Oakland, he taught history and literature to middle-schoolers in Guatemala. While doing a joint degree program at the law school and the Fletcher School of Law of Diplomacy at Tufts, his two graduate school summers have been spent in East Africa, one at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the other at an anti-corruption NGO in Nairobi. Greg enjoys cycling and has ridden his bike from San Francisco to Chicago and from Saigon to Beijing. Feel free to come by and talk politics, culture, history, law, international relations, philosophy, or anything else that isn't math (because he's forgotten it all).
Zachary Sifuentes
srizakari@gmail.comHumanities, Poetry
CL-36 | 3-3434
Zachary would like to think that raising $1.5 million for children with disabilities, writing poetry, or even teaching college writing for seven years earned him a spot as an Adams House tutor, but he knows too well the pull of a dog with a welcoming face. He's settling into the reality that he is but an adjunct to Whiskey's Resident Dog status, and feels grateful to ride Whiskey's coattails into the house he wanted to live in as an undergraduate. Today, he finds himself returning to Cambridge, his Currier House neighbor now his wife. Claret regularly takes him to Bolivia--her home--and he's taking steps to become a dual citizen. He hopes to keep the written word buoyant through conversation and through his duties as Poetry and Humanities tutor. When you come by, he only asks that you hear Whiskey's bark as the best doorbell in Claverly, ensuring that if you need something at an otherwise intimidating hour of the night, your presence will be promptly if bombastically met. If you'd like a rather soulful accompaniment to sing happy birthday to you, just ask (seriously--he knows how to howl that song). First person to spot Patches, our cat, gets full sleuth accreditation.
Sarah Stewart Johnson
ssj@mit.eduScience
H-31 | 3-2133
Hi everyone! I'm the tutor in H-entry. I grew up in Kentucky and went to college at Washington University in St. Louis, working at NASA in the summers and studying abroad in the rainforest my junior year. After graduation, I took a break from science to study philosophy, politics and economics, but I am now back at it, finishing up my planetary science PhD at MIT. Stop by to chat about the planets, the environment, creative writing, public service here or abroad, or just to talk about where you've been and where you want to go. Bonus points for helping me brush up on my (currently terrible) Spanish!
Claudine Stuchell
stuchell@post.harvard.eduInternational Relations, Study Abroad
C-16 | 3-7423
Hello! I returned to Cambridge in 2006, joining Adams House as a resident tutor and beginning a Master's in City Planning degree at MIT. As an undergrad in Eliot, I concentrated in East Asian Studies with a focus on China, and after graduating in 2004 I spent a year working for a Chinese consulting company in Beijing, followed by a year working for an international development consulting firm in D.C.
After finishing my first year of grad school, I headed off to Guangzhou, where I spent this past summer working for a Chinese real estate developer and doing my thesis research on an affordable housing project.
As your tutor in urban planning and international development, I look forward to chatting about cities, development projects, working abroad, studying abroad, and travel (as well as getting funding to travel!). I also love cooking, researching fun restaurants, and the Food and Dining section of the New York Times. Come find me in C-16, which I share with my fiance, Brian Emeott, or join me for very fun indoor cycling classes, which I teach at Hemenway/MAC.
David Trippett
trippett@fas.harvard.eduMusic
Clav 32 | 3-3430
Hi there! I'm a pianist, a fourth year doctoral student in Music, and love listening to, and working with music of all kinds. I've studied in England (the "other" Cambridge...) and Germany, and enjoyed traveling all around Europe when I was an undergrad (e.g. all the way to Helsinki to see Wagner's Ring cycle in Finnish!), so do come and tell me your travel stories. This year I am researching my PhD thesis on German Romantic opera in Berlin and Bayreuth, and so will not be around the house a great deal. My wife, Paula, is a singer, and will be here, however, so do drop by Clav-32 and say hello! We'd love to meet you.
Paula Trippett
pauladownes@yahoo.co.ukMusic, House Librarian
Clav 32 | 3-3430
Originally from the UK, my husband and I met at Cambridge University, UK, where I gained a Masters degree in Music, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Music Education. I then lived in London for three years, where I taught music at a girls high school in London and sang professionally both as a soloist and in groups such as the 'Sixteen'. I also studied for a Diploma in Opera at London University, and I am now working as a professional singer in the Boston area, singing as a soloist with the Materworks Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, with opera companies, and in groups such as the Handel and Haydn Society and Emmanuel Music. I also teach music, singing, violin and piano to young children for the New School of Music in Cambridge. My other hobbies include playing the violin, viola, and piano, reading, chatting, and drinking coffee and tea. Stop by and experience English accents, classical music, and fresh coffee!
Nathaniel Parker VanValkenburgh
npvan@fas.harvard.eduFellowships, Humanities
D-31 | 3-2061
Parker grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and played guitar, saxophone and sang in a band that quickly became instrumental, for good reasons. At Stanford, he switched from studying population biology to archaeology and anthropology and has been hooked ever since. After two degrees in the UK (Cambridge and London, Archaeology and Latin American Studies), he came to Harvard in the fall of 2005 to pursue a Ph.D. in anthropology, specializing in the archaeology and ethnohistory of colonial Peru. He's passionate about, among other things, college basketball, European soccer, Latin American indigenous politics, and drinking, as well as occasionally trying to make, small batch beers. At Adams, Parker and Katy Backes Kozhimannil are your fearless fellowships tutors, here to help you glean money from Harvard and a range of institutions further afield. If you have questions about fellowships or just want to chat, don't hesitate to get in touch with him by email, phone, or in person -- either in D-31 or at the nearly weekly fellowships tables that he and Katy hold in the Adams Conservatory.
Claret Vargas
cmvargas@post.harvard.eduPre-law, Romance Languages
CL-36 | 3-3434
Claret is not named after the wine, although she would very much like to be. She grew up in La Paz, Bolivia, did high school in the sweltering heat of Miami and felt normal again in college, when she could have cold winters at regular intervals. As an undergraduate, she lived in Currier house and concentrated in Social Studies. In her last two years, she began to frequent the Romance Languages Department and decided to return to Harvard for a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese literature. Somewhere in between Currier house and the PhD, Zac—her Currier House neighbor--became her best friend and husband. They moved to Miami, following an Assistant Professor job, and found Whiskey (a dog) and Patches (a cat). Although she loved her research and teaching, Claret decided to apply to law school to work on human rights advocacy. She will be a 1L this fall and will always find time to walk Whiskey and to talk to you. She is a pre-law and Romance Languages tutor. If you're interested in language tables, poetry, Latin American literature, or want help processing your ideas for a paper, just drop by. She's also happy to discuss questions of career choice, career change, Law School, or anything else. You can meet Whiskey and maybe catch a glimpse of Patches as she scurries away to hide from strangers.
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