Your 2008 Senior Class Committee is composed of elected Marshals representing the Class, one elected Representative per House, as well as the Class Secretary, Class Treasurer, Class Webmaster and Senior Gift Chairs. We work during senior year to organize Class Day and the Senior Spring and Senior Week festivities, as well as to organize events and activities to keep the Class connected long after we graduate. Please feel free to contact Class Secretary Francis Assaf, First Marshal AJ Tennant, or any member of the SCC with any questions, comments, or suggestions, as we celebrate our graduation and venture forth into the world.
Class Marshals
AJ Tennant, First Marshal atennant@fas
AJ is a government concentrator residing in Winthrop House. Within government, AJ has focused his studies on international relations, along with taking a few economic and finance history courses. Instead of taking these academic interests to the thesis-writing level, AJ hopes to take a few fun and interesting courses this spring. AJ is, however, most looking forward to helping the Senior Class in any way he can this spring, and he is pumped for the the fun times ahead. During the past three and half years, AJ spent most of his time working for Harvard Student Agencies, playing Junior Varsity Basketball, and most importantly helping start the new CQH pub. AJ enjoys hanging out with his roommates, playing pickup basketball, working out, meeting new people, and pulling pranks. AJ wants to make Senior Spring memorable for the Class of 2008.
Firth McEachern, Second Marshal fmmceach@fas
Firth is an EPS/Astro major living in Kirkland House. He has been primarily involved in the Darfur Action Group, whose mission is to provide relief for Darfuri victims, campaign to encourage university, state, and corporate divestment from businesses that support the Sudanese government, raise awareness in the Harvard and Boston communities, and to promote political resolutions to the conflict. He has also been a representative for the Resource Efficiency Program, acting as a liaison between students and administrators about environmental sustainability. Reps teach their peers why and how to conserve resources, and also suggest policy and infrastructure improvements that aid conservation. In his remaining time, Firth has been on stage or on the dancefloor, and is a long-term comper of FM magazine. His time at Harvard has been a decent mixture of art and activism, and can't wait to activate Senior Year.
Lori Adelman ladelman@fas
Lori Adelman is a social studies concentrator in Dunster House. A proud member of the class of 2008, she has enjoyed being involved in student government here, serving on the Harvard Undergraduate Council for three years and chairing the Council's Finance Committee for two semesters during that time. Additionally, she has been very active in Black Cultural organizations, serving as Alumni Representative for the Black Students' Association (BSA), Co-Chair of the Association of Black Harvard Women's Political Action Committee, and most recently, as Chair of the BSA's Cultural Center Committee. Lori has also enjoyed serving in a mentorship capacity during her time as an undergraduate, serving as a Peer Advising Fellow and also as a mentor in W.Y.S.E., a PBHA mentorship program based in a local Cambridge high school. As a senior, she is excited to be working on her thesis on student activism in Chile and making sure that senior spring for the class of 2008 is well worth the wait!
Karolis Balciunas kbalciun@fas
Adam Goldenberg goldenb@fas
Adam is a social studies concentrator in Winthrop House. At various times during the last four years, Adam has been an editorial columnist for The Harvard Crimson, the Chair of the College Events Board, a cast member of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the General Manager of the Harvard Din & Tonics, a member of the Crimson Key Society, a tutor for the Harvard Program for International Education, and Parliamentarian of the Undergraduate Council. The youngest member of the Senior Class Committee, Adam will turn 21 on April 21, 2008. Isn't that awesome?
Aditi Mallick mallick@fas
Marcus Miller mgmiller@fas
Joshua Sharp jcsharp@fas
Josh, a proud resident of Dunster House, is from Needham, MA. He is a Government concentrator with a secondary field in Jewish Studies. On campus he has been involved extensively with Harvard Hillel and with various musical groups including the Freshman Musical, the Dunster House Opera, and the Dunster Music Society. He looks forward to a great senior spring!
Appointed Officers
Francis Assaf, Class Secretary fassaf@fasLuther Gatewood, Class Treasurer gatewood@fas
Neha Chauhan, Class Webmaster nchauhan@fas
Neha is a Sociology/Economics concentrator in Winthrop House. Within this field, she focuses on leadership and organizational behavior. Originally from Staten Island, New York, Neha enjoys dancing ballet, trying new things, and watching Will Ferrell movies. On campus, she served as Co-Chair of the Harvard-Radcliffe Women's Leadership Project and Executive Board member of Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business. She also mentors at a local elementary school with Strong Women Strong Girls. One of her favorite Harvard memories was camping in Times Square with her blockmate to meet the Backstreet Boys. Neha is excited to design the senior class website and looks forward to planning fun events for senior spring.
Marvin Cine, Senior Gift Chair mjcine@fas
Amy Diaz, Senior Gift Chair amydiaz@fas
Amy Diaz is a History concentrator living in Kirkland. She is currently serving on the Senior Class Committee as one of the Senior Gift Co-Chairs. During her time at Harvard, she has been involved in Harvard Undergraduate Women in Business, the Harvard Ballet Company, the Crimson Callers Phonathon Program, and Kappa Kappa Gamma. She has spent most of her summers studying and working abroad in Switzerland, the UK, Brazil, and Colombia as well as one semester studying in Peru. Amy looks forward to a successful Senior Gift Campaign and helping the other members of the Senior Class Committee plan a great spring semester!
Peter Krause, Senior Gift Chair krause@fas
After growing up in New York City, Eliot House has been Peter's home for the last three years. At Harvard, his concentration is in Economics with a minor in History. Along with Amy Diaz and Marvin Cine, he will be co-chairing the Senior Gift effort in the spring. He is also very excited to help out and serve on the SCC this year. Peter looks forward to helping plan many memorable events for all of us Seniors in our last semester at Harvard.
House Representatives
Amanda Lee Willis, Adams alwillis@fas
Paaya Gupta, Cabot pgupta@fas
Michael Blair, Currier mblair@fas
Kyle Krahel, Dudley kkrahel@fas
Kristin Blagg, Dunster kblagg@fas
Hailing from the western edge of Massachusetts, Kristin Blagg is proud to be Dunster House's 2008 representative. A political junkie at heart, she's spent a lot of time bumming around the Institute of Politics - most recently documenting the New Hampshire primary as part of the IOP's Campus Voices program. As manager of the Dunster Grille, Kristin can often be found flipping burgers and serving up Nutella milkshakes into the wee hours of the morning. In the summers, she's indulged her wanderlust tendencies by writing for Let's Go on backpacking routes in the U.S. and Britain, as well as teaching English in China. In her spare time, Kristin enjoys photography, coffee, and long walks on the Charles.
Chiki Gupta, Eliot cgupta@fas
Chiki Gupta is a senior in Eliot House concentrating in Economics with a secondary field in Biochemistry. She is currently in the process of attempting to combine her seemingly-unrelated academic interests into a cohesive thesis. At Harvard, she has dedicated much of her time to Eliot House, serving on its House Committee (HoCo) for the past three years. Chiki also enjoys tennis, ice hockey (a by-product of spending much of her childhood in Montreal), and conversations over long meals in Eliot dining hall. She is from Maryland, just outside of Washington D.C.
Anna McCallie, Kirkland mccallie@fas
Vicki Slavina, Leverett vslavina@fas
Vicki Slavina is an Economics concentrator from Leverett House. Her studies focus on Public Sector Economics as well as pretending to be a student at the GSD and the University of Buenos Aires. At Harvard she is involved the Harvard College Urban Studies Society, Harvard College Consulting Group, Leverett HoCo and and waitressing at the CQH Pub. She hails from the breadbasket of Europe (Ukraine) and the capital of cool (Brooklyn). She enjoys traveling, cities and traveling to cities.
Karan Lodha, Lowell klodha@fas
Karan Lodha '08 has lived on three different continents but has come to call the blue belltower of Lowell House home. Having served on Lowell's House Committee for three years, he hopes to use his event-planning experience to make Senior Spring a semester to remember. He also writes sports for The Crimson and serves as a Peer Advising Fellow in Matthews. If he has his way, the Class of 2008 will be attending a Celtics game and a Bruins game to go along with the yearly early-spring Red Sox game. But for now, he's happy to bask in the freedom of a thesis-less second semester.
Nitesh Banta, Mather nbanta@fas
Cara Ferrentino, Pforzheimer cferrent@fas
Cara is very glad to represent Pforzheimer House, known for its bear cavalry and general hipness, and is excited to help make the end of all our college careers be as fabulous as possible. In addition to her studies in Environmental Science and Public Policy, Cara has spent hours of fun in various pursuits over the past four years, including PfoHoCo, IMs, the Radcliffe Choral Society, FOP, Experimentors, romance language classes, and with random theatrical productions as a set painter. Although her primary life goal of dancing in Ghungroo has sadly proven to be unattainable, Cara's secondary pre-graduation goals include attending as many house formals and open houses as possible.
Michael Arth, Quincy arth@fas
Michael is a government concentrator residing in Quincy House. Within government, Michael has focused his studies on domestic politics with a particular emphasis on campaigns and elections. Refusing to write a thesis out of the sheer terror of the endeavor, Michael hopes to spend the spring term enjoying the company of his fellow seniors and pursuing an enjoyable academic load. In anticipation of the spring semester, Michael is most looking forward to helping the Senior Class make the last months of their collective college experience memorable. During the past three and half years, Michael has spent most of his non-academic time serving as a cadet in Air Force ROTC, working for the College Democrats, and reviving the Quincy Grille to its current glory. Michael enjoys the great outdoors, following American politics, watching most any televised sporting event, and working to bring together his classmates in relaxed social settings. Following graduation, Michael will commission as a 2nd Lt in the United States Air Force.
Hoppy Maffione, Winthrop maffione@fas
Hoppy* is excited to serve on the Senior Class Committee as the Winthrop House Representative! She loves Winthrop House (especially the class of 2008!), and has happily served on the Winthrop House Committee since sophomore year. When not chilling in Winthrop, Hoppy enjoys planning events with the Harvard Undergraduate Economics Association. She is an economics concentrator that occasionally dabbles in Spanish. While originally from the Boston area, her parents now live in Hot-lanta, where vacations are a good 20 degrees warmer than Beantown. Hoppy also works at the Office of Career Services and hopes to find a job someday soon...but in the meantime, can't hardly wait for Senior Spring 2008!
*Hoppy: No, that is not her real name. Alas, she'd tell you her real name, but she isn't quite sure how to spell it...
HAA Contacts
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