Meet the Board

President: Sonia Rosner

(e-mail: harvard.graduateTKD@gmail.com)

Sonia enjoys kicking butt at taekwondo practice and in her research on mechanobiology and asthma. She is a G-4 in Biological Sciences in Public Health and currently serves as President of the Harvard GSAS Taekwondo Club.

Vice-President: Tim Roth

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Tim is a first year grad student studying protein and metabolic engineering in the chemical biology program at Harvard. He currently serves as the very loud and friendly vice-president of the Harvard GSAS Taekwondo club. In his spare time he enjoys studying food chemistry and drinking half his body-weight in coffee daily.

Treasurer: Jacky Austermann

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Jacky is a G-2 in Earth and Planetary Sciences where she tries to find out how sea level and ice volume changed throughout the ice age. Having started Taekwondo just a year ago, she is almost still a newbie but got addicted to the full body workout and the kicking!

Secretary: Danica Truscott

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Danica is a G-1 in the Regional Studies – East Asia Program. Her areas of research include premodern Japanese literature and gender theory. Besides getting her butt handed to her in Taekwondo, Danica enjoys the simple pleasures in life, such as drinking, eating and terrible karaoke.

Webmaster: Alissa Murray

Alissa is also a G-1 in the Regional Studies – East Asia program; she studies Japanese and Chinese war memory and international relations (which she hopes will some day land her an actual job in diplomatic relations). Despite an unfortunate tendency to be sidelined by frequent silly injuries, she has been doing taekwondo for over ten years. Though studying two foreign languages at once keeps her free time to a minimum, she also enjoys training her dog on agility courses and writing fantasy novels, when the chance arises.