$2000 Scholarships

Mee-Jung Jang
Oakton, Virginia
Harvard University

Mee-Jung Jang is a senior at Harvard College, majoring in Computer Science and Economics. Using her technical background, she has worked as a tutor at Harvard's Bureau of Study Counsel. She is currently writing a senior thesis to explore the ethnic composition of student rooming groups on campus.

Aside from her studies, Mee-Jung works actively to make a difference in the lives of the people in both her local community and abroad. By performing traditional Korean fan dance, organizing a children's skit, and acting as a counselor at a one-day camp, Mee-Jung has volunteered at a variety of events for adopted Korean children in the Boston area. After noticing the need for a support group for the Korean adoptees and their families, Mee-Jung helped start the Harvard Korean Adoptee Mentorship Program. As a executive board member of the Korean Association, she has participated in the Korean Culture Show and in political discussions on North-South Korean relations.

Abroad, Mee-Jung has helped build homes in Costa Rica through Habitat for Humanity. She also received a Radcliffe Fellowship Award to teach English in China and Korea. In the spring of 2005, she published a book comparing the educational systems of the United States and Korea to help improve the Korean education system.

Timothy Koo
Port Washington, New York
Princeton University

Tim is a senior at Princeton University majoring in Molecular Biology, and a prospective student of medicine. In addition to the biological sciences, he is also strongly interested in sustainable economic and healthcare development, and socio-political issues involving Asian-American identity and political activism. He spent the summer of 2005 helping to build and strengthen sustainable healthcare delivery services in the underserved communities of Oaxaca, Mexico, one of the poorest states in the country. He hopes to return next year to establish a food collection program for Oaxaca City's many economically disadvantaged and undernourished children. At school, Tim has served as co-chair on the committee for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, as a representative on the Molecular Biology Undergraduate Committee, as an academic peer advisor for incoming freshmen, and as a volunteer EMT in the township of Princeton. His varied research interests have led him to investigate potential new treatments for head and neck cancer at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, as well as assist in a study conducted at Princeton studying links between economic factors and health during Hong Kong's SARS epidemic. He is currently conducting senior thesis research on nuclear fusion at Princeton.

Karen Sein
Palo Alto, California
University of California, Berkeley

Karen Sein is a senior at University of California-Berkeley majoring in Public Health with her concentration in Health Policy & Management. She is interested in how law, communications, and diversity impact health care and wants to pursue a career in health care administration. This past summer she was a Health Career Connection intern at Kaiser Permanente in South San Francisco, where her work focused on creating recommendations to improve service and care to the Medical Center's Filipino patients. Karen's interests in health care and diversity stems from her active involvement with student organizations at UC Berkeley. She was the president of UC Berkeley's Asian American Association, the largest pan-Asian collegiate organization in the nation, through which she advocated for leadership and service within the Asian American Community. Karen has also been committed to the Health & Medical Apprenticeship Program, an undergraduate-led service group that provides over 1,000 students each year with classes and internships in public health and medicine. After being a Health Service intern her freshman year, Karen led weekly public health discussion sections for other interns as a Teaching Assistant for two years, and is now the head coordinator of HMAP. Karen has also assisted with maternal and child health research at the School of Public Health. In her free time she enjoys working on free-lance graphic design projects, cooking, and reading the newspaper cover to cover.

 
$1000 Scholarships

Judith Li
Cupertino, California
Harvard University

Judith had wanted to be a journalist when she was younger, but as editor of the school paper, she soon discovered that her talent was actually in fiction, rather than journalistic, writing. She is currently working on a short novel that she hopes to someday publish.

Judith's passion, however, has always lain in science, from taking two honors science classes every semester in high school to holding a teaching position in the Chemistry Department at Harvard College. She has honed her interest from molecular biology to medicine. Interning in the summer at Stanford and during the school year at Harvard, she has gained invaluable experience working with academic medicine neurology, and strengthened her resolve to become a doctor.

Judith's interests have recently centered also on public health. Her most recent project is the Hepatitis B Initiative, an 8 year old initiative in Boston serving the underprivileged Asian immigrants in the area. As Executive Director, Judith is both excited and nervous about managing the one hundred and seventy volunteers from colleges all across the Boston area.

Now in her last and final year at Harvard, she hopes to complete her senior honors thesis, which is on different methods of stroke treatment, at the Harvard Medical School. She is also looking forward to continuing to take the classes she is interested in, strive for big goals with the Hepatitis B Initiative, and thoroughly enjoy this last precious year in the company of some of the best friends she has made thus far.

Sarah Paiji
Cerritos, California
Harvard University

Sarah is a senior at Harvard College, concentrating in Economics. At Harvard, Sarah is currently the Co-President of the Asian American Association. Additionally, Sarah has been working for the admissions office for two years as the Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Coordinator for Asian Americans and serves as a mentor to children in Boston's Chinatown through a campus community service organization.

Sarah has also served as President of the Boston Asian Students Alliance (BASA). Through BASA, she helped organize a successful protest against Details Magazine, a nationally distributed men's magazine, for an article that was offensive to Asian Americans. Sarah plans to write her thesis on print media bias in the coverage of minority troops in the Iraq War. She has spent her past two summers working at Goldman Sachs and plans to pursue a career in finance following graduation. She hopes to go to business school and possibly law school as well. Ultimately, she hopes to raise a big family and have a career that will allow her to combine her interests in business and Asian American issues. In her spare time, Sarah enjoys scrapbooking, flag football, and eating good food with good friends.

Rossan Chen
Palo Alto, California
University of California-Berkeley

Rossan Chen is a senior at the University of California-Berkeley pursuing a double major in Public Health and Social Welfare. She is very interested in addressing the unequal distribution of health resources in the United States. To explore the causes of poor health among the socioeconomically disadvantaged, she is a research assistant for the Peers and Wellness Study. This public health research project examines the possible link between socioeconomic status, peer hierarchies, and health outcomes in kindergarten children. She has volunteered at Oakland Children’s Hospital and La Clinica de la Raza in order to gain clinical experience working with disadvantaged families. For the past five semesters, she has been an Organic Chemistry tutor at the Student Learning Center, a free academic resource for students who need help with concepts, homework, and labs. She is the overall co-chair of a non-profit student group called Eggster. Every year the group organizes and hosts Northern California’s largest free egg hunt and learning festival for disabled and disadvantaged children (the event is open to the public, too). Donations raised through the event are distributed among pre-selected children’s agencies in the Bay Area. She is also involved in a pre-med mentoring program through which she offers advice to prospective pre-med students.

Sambo Dul
Chandler, Arizona
Arizona State University

Sambo Dul is currently a senior at Arizona State University majoring in Political Science, Economics & Spanish. She has personally experienced the plight of refugees who must rebuild their lives in an unfamiliar land. She founded an organization called the Refugee Resettlement Volunteers, whose mission is to engage the community in an effort to provide assistance and support to newly arrived refugee families in the Phoenix area, as well as raise awareness about refugee issues through creative education and advocacy initiatives. She is serving as the Legislative Coordinator in Arizona for Amnesty International, USA which is the largest grassroots human rights organization in the world. She is also currently developing a program called “Participate: A HUMAN RIGHT”, a four-week program to be implemented at Pannasastra University in Cambodia to introduce students to human rights advocacy and civic engagement. Sambo is now working with the League of Young Voters to implement a youth voter organizing and education program in Arizona for the 2004 election. As these endeavors demonstrate, Sambo’s passion lies in building community and empowering people to play an active role in their communities.

Delphine Huang
Palo Alto, California
Brown University

Delphine Huang is currently a senior at Brown University, concentrating in Human Biology with a focus in Human Health and Disease.

At Brown University, Delphine works as the Asian American Student Programmer and is involved in building coalition between students, faculty and alumni. She is the editor-in-chief of Visions, a student-produced magazine by Asian/Asian-Americans, and strives to depict the different voices and opinions of students. She also was involved as a Minority Peer Counselor, and is a member of the Asian American Students Association.

Delphine is also interested in studying public health. Last summer, she had an internship at the Chinese Hospital in San Francisco, where she explored the impact of multi-lingual, culturally-sensitive medical care. She also volunteered as a patient advocate at the Stanford University’s Pacific Free Clinic, which serves mainly low-income or non-insured families.

In January 2004, Delphine traveled to Mali, West Africa and researched the availability and accessibility of the anti-retroviral drug, Nevirapine, for the prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission of HIV. This past semester, Delphine studied abroad in Central and South America. She volunteered as a health educator of women’s health issues in a rural Guatemalan area, and worked with local health promoters to teach classes. She is currently in Puerto Rico to work on a photographic narrative project, documenting the experiences of women living with HIV. She hopes to continue working in this field and plans to eventually go into medicine.

Jasmine Lai
San Diego, California
University of California, Los Angeles

A prospective medical student, Jasmine Lai will be a senior at the University of California, Los Angeles, double majoring in Neuroscience and Physiological Sciences. She has spent a quarter tutoring Los Angeles Chinatown’s immigrant youth in fall of 2002, Jasmine is also the co-founder and Chair of the March of Dimes Collegiate Council at UCLA, an Assistant Director of Best Buddies, and the Logistics Chair for UCLA Mobile Clinic. On weekends, she volunteers as the Department Coordinator of the Labor and Delivery department at Santa Monica Hospital and as a Research Assistant in the Emergency Department of UCLA Medical Center. On the side, Jasmine does research at the David Geffen School of Medicine, Biological Imaging Department, in which she recently presented her research at the national Society of Nuclear Medicine Conference in Philadelphia, leading to publication of her abstract in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Quang Tran
Buena Park, California
Harvard University

Quang Tran is a senior at Harvard College, majoring in Social Studies. Her interests are rooted in a desire to try to understand other people, the world, and herself. She intends to pursue advanced degrees in public policy or anthropology, and is currently writing her senior thesis on migration and citizenship for Vietnamese American youth in Orange County. She has a lifelong desire to learn and understand, to listen to and play music, and to read and write.

At college, she has been active in the Boston Refugee Youth Enrichment (BRYE) program, where she has been an ESL tutor, a science teacher, and a mentor for immigrant and refugee children. Last year, as the director of the BRYE Teen program, she compiled and implemented a youth leadership development curriculum focused on diversity appreciation and immigrant/refugee history. In addition, she was the Co-President of the Harvard Vietnamese Association, a small but dynamic group that organizes language tables, film screenings, dialogues, performances, and literature readings. Her summers have been spent as a camp counselor for the BRYE Summer Urban Program, working in youth and community development at Orange County Human Relations, and as an intern at the UN Population Fund Office in Vietnam.

Karen Tsai
Colts Neck, New Jersey
Georgetown University

Karen Tsai is a rising senior majoring in Finance and International Business as well as minoring in Government. Her past honors include membership in Beta Gamma Sigma and John Carroll Scholars. While at Georgetown, she has been heavily involved in activities at the McDonough School of Business as co-coordinator of the mentor program and co-chair of the Business Day Parents Weekend Committee. She has also been involved in the Asian-American student community as co-coordinator of the 2003 ECASU Conference (one of the largest Asian student conferences in the nation) as well as the co-founder of Georgetown’s Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Karen has been accepted to Georgetown Law School and hopes to pursue a career in the public sector.

Krishna Agrawal
Marlboro, New Jersey
New York University

Krishna is a rising senior at NYU's Stern School of Business pursuing a double major in Finance and Information Systems. Currently, he is working on writing a thesis on real options as part of the Stern Honors Program. This summer he is working in Deutsche Bank's Reengineering Department, a group committed to increasing efficiency at the bank. His previous honors include the AT&T Scholarship, Beta Gamma Sigma membership (the national business honor society), and Stern Scholars. In school, Krishna is working with a fellow student to establish a mentoring program for freshmen to receive advice from seniors. Also, he is currently Treasurer of the Inter Club Council, the student body that works with all of the Stern clubs to increase the quality of education outside of the classroom and was the Publicity Chair for the Asian Cultural Union. In addition, he volunteers his time regularly to March of Dimes and PubliColor, an organization that paints under-funded schools in New York City. In his spare time, Krishna likes to rock climb and to play the guitar.

Sophia Lai
Pittsford, New York
Harvard University

Sophia is a senior at Harvard College, concentrating in Social Studies with a focus on racial and ethnic studies. At Harvard, she was Co-President of the Asian American Association, Co-Chair of the Academic Affairs Committee of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, a board member of the Taiwanese Cultural Society, and Coordinator of the Involvement Fair for the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association East Coast Conference. She has also taught citizenship classes to residents of Boston's Chinatown and interned at Greater Boston Legal Services. Currently, Sophia is a leader for the First-Year Urban Program and active with the Asian American Christian Fellowship. Last summer, she interned at the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium as a Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership Scholar and an Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellow. She currently interns as an Allston-Brighton fellow at the Brazilian Immigrant Center, a community-based immigrants' and workers' rights organization, where she teaches workshops on American civic participation. Sophia plans a career in civil rights and immigration advocacy and policy, focusing on racial and socioeconomic inequality. In addition to listening to classical and early '90s music, she likes to take long walks and have long talks with friends, and think about Asian American Studies.

David K. Lee
Cerritos, California
Harvard University

David is currently a rising senior at Harvard. One of his proudest accomplishments is the founding of the Boston Asian Students Alliance (BASA) during his freshman year, which has grown tremendously since then. He is very active in the Asian American community, especially the Taiwanese American community, currently serving as the national president of the Intercollegiate Taiwanese American Students Association (ITASA) and the president of the Boston Intercollegiate Taiwanese Students Association (BITSA). He has worked on several conferences including the ones for ITASA, BITSA, and the most recent Boston Asian Students Intercollegiate Conference (BASIC). In addition to the Asian American community, he is also extremely passionate about the environment and plays many active roles in the Harvard Environmental Action Committee, including the former director of the Environmental Education Program for Gardner Elementary School. This summer, in addition to attending conferences, David is working in a molecular biology laboratory at the Harvard Medical School, doing honors thesis research on transcription factors. In the future, he hopes to go into oncology, both clinical and laboratory, to unify research and treatment of cancer. He also plans to work in Mexico, specifically among the orphan population, to continue a lifelong commitment he started in high school. He enjoys long walks on the beach and the occasional bike ride through the rustic countryside.

Malinda Lin
Arcadia, California
University of Southern California

Malinda is pursuing a Biological Sciences and Sociology double major at the University of Southern California. As an avid pre-med student, she is looking forward to becoming a physician, possibly in a specialty that would give her the chance to work with children. Also, she is interested in attaining a degree in public health so that she can better address communities' healthcare needs and deal with medicine on a larger social scale. Because of her interest in biological systems, she is conducting molecular biology research. To explore sociology further, she is researching two topics-childhood obesity and immigrants' experiences with health care barriers. Volunteering at St. John's Children's Clinic and shadowing physicians has greatly influenced her career goal because she really enjoys interacting with the patients. In addition, organizing and participating in the Asian American Tutorial Project, a mentoring program with elementary students, has been amazing and educational. One especially gratifying organization she is involved with is Supplemental Instruction, in which she tutors students who need additional help in their sciences courses. Other organizations she is committed to include American Medical Students Association, Golden Key Honor Society, the Dance Club, and the community symphony orchestra.

Sunjay Mishra
Freehold, New Jersey
University of Pennsylvania

Sunjay graduated in three years from The University of Pennsylvania with highest honors, completing a dual degree in computer science and economics. A Management and Technology student, Joseph Wharton Scholar, and member of Beta Gamma Sigma (honor society open to the top twenty students in Wharton), Sunjay completed two thesis papers; "Financial Applications of Neural Networks" and "Patent Valuation Using Option Pricing Theory". While at Penn, he served as a minority mentor, residential advisor, and member of the Dean's Advisory Board. He was also a teaching assistant for Management 100, a research consultant for the Emerging Technologies Division at Wharton, and worked part-time at Morgan Stanley during his final year. This summer he is working full time at Morgan Stanley while taking time off to travel to East Asia and India. Recently awarded a Gates Scholarship, Sunjay will pursue a Master's in Technology Policy at The University of Cambridge in England next year. His interests include travel, sports, and music.

Joanna Yeh
San Ramon, California
University of California-Berkeley

Joanna attends the University of California-Berkeley majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Genetics and Development and is very involved in undergraduate research. As a Goldwater and Beckman scholar, she has been working to develop the frog, Xenopus tropicalis, as a genetic organism. Next year, she will do her honor's thesis on the "organizer genes" and their role in early development. Aside from her science classes and lab work, she realizes the important need for all students to give back to their community. She has been a general chemistry teaching assistant for a UC Berkeley program that helps disadvantaged students gain that extra help they need. Furthermore, since her freshman year, she has been a volunteer at Berkeley Primary Care Clinic. The Access Clinic specializes in HIV/AIDS care. Finally, she has also devoted much time to an on-campus student organization for biology majors. The organization prides itself in helping out in the community and helping lower division students succeed at Berkeley. She hopes to go to medical school and ultimately have a career that combines both research and patient care. In her spare time, she enjoys watching movies, rollerblading, traveling, hanging out with friends, and volunteering.

Charles Chang
New City, New York
Harvard University

Charles is a linguistics concentrator at Harvard University, where next year he will write a thesis on aspects of loanword and second language phonology to complete a joint BA/MA degree. He spent the summer before his senior year taking a tour of Korea to promote a book he contributed to on the American educational system and then directing Summer MIHNUET, a student group bringing live music and high spirits into hospitals and nursing homes in the Greater Boston Area. A Harvard Stride Rite Community Service Scholar and NACA Regional Council Student Leader, Charles co-directs term-time MIHNUET, acts as a program chair of a mentorship and skill-building organization for Cambridge teens, teaches ESL in immigrant adult communities, and serves as a counselor for grade-school children in the Roxbury area. An avid figure skating fan, he also volunteers as a committee member of An Evening With Champions, the national skating show raising funds for children's cancer research. After graduation, Charles intends to pursue a PhD in linguistics and a career that will allow him to combine his passions for community work, education, and language.

Grace Liu
Kapolei, Hawaii
University of Hawaii at Manoa

Grace attends the University of Hawaii at Manoa majoring in Biology. She is also enrolled in the Honors Program that requires a two-year commitment and a senior thesis prior to graduation. Her research focuses on a specific Wnt pathway that is related to the onset of colon cancer. She is also a recipient of one of the University of Hawaii's Presidential Scholar Award, the University of Hawaii Alumnae Association Rodney P. Santos Award, the College of Natural Sciences Undergraduate Research Award, and the All-American Scholar Award. She has also spent time volunteering for both a local hospital and for the Honolulu unit of the American Cancer Society. Grace is a member of Golden Key and Mortar Board National Honor Society where she performs numerous community service projects, ranging from local beach clean-up to food drives and library reading projects. She hope to make an impact on the Asian community in the future by providing services to Asian countries as a physician and to promote the Asian culture and values to other communities and people.

Nguyen Pham
Kansas City, Missouri
University of Missouri-Kansas City

Nguyen is a medical student in the six-year combined baccalaureate/MD Program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is entering her second term as president of Alpha Phi Omega, a national co-ed community service fraternity, and is working on increasing campus volunteerism through numerous projects benefiting the Kansas City area. She also participates in Youth Friends, a mentoring program for school aged children. Nguyen is a member of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority and has previously served as publicity chair. Currently, she is involved in helping coordinate the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association's 9th annual national conference. In her free time, she enjoys delving into her creative side through photography and drawing. After graduation, Nguyen plans to enter the pediatrics field and eventually utilize her skills to help those in her native country of Vietnam.

Rachel Quizon
Norwalk, California
University of California-San Diego

Rachel is a Communication Studies and Political Science double major, and will be graduating in the spring of 2003. She is very active with the cultural organizations at UC San Diego, including Kaibigang Pilipino, for which she served as the choreographer and director of the annual Pilipino Cultural Celebration, the largest undergraduate student-run production at UCSD. She is also involved in outreaching to high school youth about the importance of higher education as a high school conference facilitator and chair for both Kaibigang Pilipino and the Asian Pacific Islander Student Alliance (APSA). Rachel is the recipient of the Los Angeles Times Fund Scholarship for demonstrated academic excellence, and a career interest in the field of communications. Her future goals include working in journalism or entertainment public relations and traveling the world. In her spare time, Rachel enjoys reading, writing, and dancing.

Sachin Mysore Shivaram
Mequon, Michigan
Harvard University

Sachin Shivaram attends Harvard University and will be graduating with an A.B. in History & Literature and Afro-American Studies next June. Sachin is originally from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and has spent a great deal of time in Mysore, India, where his family is from. Sachin's academic work and extracurricular involvement with the NAACP, the Harvard Civil Rights Project, and an advocacy organization for low-income women are motivated by concerns about gender inequity in the United States. In particular, he is concerned that the feminization of poverty as a global phenomenon is a key agent of perpetuating socio-political gender inequity. This summer Sachin is doing research at the Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, DC and will continue working on a story about post-rape depression with author Jamaica Kincaid. Next year, he will be writing his senior thesis on the influence of writings about black women on anti-poverty policy in the US. In his free time, Sachin enjoys playing basketball, weightlifting, and relaxing over a good meal. Sachin looks forward to running in his fourth marathon this fall.

Benjamin Wong
Monterey Park, California
University of California-San Diego

Benjamin is majoring in bioengineering at the University of California-San Diego. He intends to enter graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. degree. Currently, he is involved in ongoing research at the Cartilage and Tissue Engineering Laboratory at UC San Diego, under the guidance of Dr. Robert Sah, researching the effects of aging and disease on cartilage tissue cellularity. In addition, during the summer of 2002, he was involved in bone mechanics research with Dr. Tony Keaveny at the Berkeley Biomechanics Orthopaedic Laboratory at the University of California-Berkeley, studying the effects of geometrically nonlinear deformations on low-density trabecular bone. He is also involved in school organizations such as Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honor society) and Sigma Phi Epsilon (a Greek Service Fraternity). In the future, he hopes to enter industry or academia to continue his involvement in medical research as a career.

Deborah Brockett
Oakland, California
University of California, Berkeley

Debbie is an Environmental Economics and Policy major, with a minor in Chinese Studies. Her career goal is to use policy, education, and management techniques to improve the environmental conditions in America, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She is currently working on her honors thesis with the China Energy Group of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. She also tutors new Chinese immigrants in English, teaches urban youth about environmental issues, and has held a long-term leadership role in the mixed race Asian American organization, Hapa Issues Forum (HIF). She has also organized Environmental Justice and Mixed Race Workshops at the Annual Asian Pacific Islander Issues Conference at UC Berkeley. She is pursuing fluency in Mandarin and plans to enter law school.

Avik Chatterjee
Cary, North Carolina
Harvard University

Avik will graduate from Harvard University in the spring of 2002 with a degree in biochemistry and a citation in German Literature. At Harvard he has been active in the Harvard South Asian Association as President, hoping to increase the community service focus of the organization through a voter registration drive, presentations to local community groups and affordable housing building projects. Avik has also been active at Harvard as Director of the community service program Peace Games, which seeks to empower children with the skills to prevent violence in their communities. Avik has also been active in the Harvard Wind Ensemble, as a 'Prefect' (a non-resident advisor for first-years) and as a member of his dorm's student life committee. He is currently in Burkina Faso in Africa exploring an interest in public health by working for the Association for Peace and Solidarity in a community health center. He is applying to medical school and hopes one day to combine community service and medicine in his practice, either in the United States or in the developing world.

Tracy Chin
Staten Island, New York
New York University

Tracy was born and bred in New York City. She is currently studying Media, Technology, and Communications at NYU's Gallatin School. Tracy has worked in marketing, public relations, editorial, and web production at such places as Fox News Online, Natural Resources Defense Council, Concrete Media, Instinet, and WCN Online. A member of the Asian American Writers Workshop, she has also written film reviews and commentaries on pop culture for various websites and print publications. Tracy has served as President of NYU's Asian American Women's Alliance. Currently, she is the Press Secretary for John Frank, who is running for City Council in this November's upcoming election. Tracy is interested in how media and technology affects communities and is involved in educating others about Asian American political and social issues. In the past, she has organized forums discussing racial profiling, voter intimidation, and unfair media representation against people of color. Recently, she won the President's Service Award for volunteerism in the community.

Albert Cho
Tempe, Arizona
Harvard University

Albert is a Social Studies major at Harvard University with an emphasis on economic development and international political economy. He is the author of the Global Trade Negotiations Home Page, a website dedicated to research on international trade policy, and has worked with various non-governmental organizations on trade and sustainable development. Albert is the Executive Editor of the Harvard International Review and currently serves on the Board of Directors of ImprovBoston, New England's oldest improvisational comedy troupe. Recently named a Harry S. Truman Scholar, Albert is also a peer counselor and a member of Harvard's chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. He enjoys woodworking, photography and international travel, and spent the summer before his senior year in Mauritius conducting thesis research on the relationship between ethnic conflict and economic policy reform. Albert intends to pursue a PhD in political economy and a career researching international trade and environmental policy.

Anand Kandaswamy
Leonardo, New Jersey
Rutgers University

Anand is majoring in Economics and Political Science. He recently completed an independent study on the impact of different systems of dividend taxation on corporate investment decisions. Anand is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Excellence and a Bear, Stearns Merit Scholarship for outstanding junior economics students. He is a volunteer tutor for statistics and microeconomics students and also serves as a mentor to freshmen. During his tenure as Secretary of LIBOR (Little Investment Bankers of Rutgers), a college business club, Anand oversaw a massive recruitment effort to get more economics students involved in the association. In his capacity as a volunteer for the HELP Foundation, a charitable group devoted to supporting orphans in India, Anand helped in the maintenance of accounts and the organization of the annual Walk-A-Thon fund-raiser. In his free time, Anand enjoys drawing and writing.

Jeff Sheng
Thousand Oaks, California
Harvard University

Jeff is majoring in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University with a focus in filmmaking and photography with an emphasis on Ethnic Studies. He has been actively involved with the California Association of Student Councils for the past seven years, an organization that promotes ethical student leadership and empowerment. As a previous State President for the organization (1997-98), he now is one of their advanced trainers, helping high school students throughout the state realize their full leadership potential. At Harvard, Jeff balances a rigorous workload that alternates between classes that are both academic and creative, which can be as disparate as Photography, Biology, and Chinese Cinema. After graduating, he hopes to go to film school while also working as a free-lance photographer for magazines.

Angela F. Chan
Occidental College, Los Angeles, California

Angela is majoring in Sociology/Chinese and is ranked at the top of her class with a 3.99 GPA. Angela currently volunteers for the Asian American Tutorial Program in Los Angeles' Chinatown. She has been active as a member of Progressive Students Alliance, Students Committed To Enriching a Multicultural Environment (SCEME), Asian Pacific Students Alliance, Pre-Law Society, National Residence Hall Honorary, Freshman Class President, and Chinese Culture Club President. Angela has been awarded a Richter Fellowship to study the Chinese community in London, a Ford Fellowship and was recently named a Harry S. Truman Scholar. Angela intends to open a non-profit organization that offers legal assistance to minorities in discrimination cases, while also serving as a link between different ethnic legal centers. Angela enjoys painting, dancing, theater and engaging in political debates.

Nicholas A. Ramey
John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland

Nicholas is majoring in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science at John Hopkins University and maintains a cumulative 3.99 GPA. He is currently involved in research applications for future bone surgery through the Computer Integrated Surgery Lab at John Hopkins and is a member of the industrial design team at Baltimore Biomedical, Inc. to investigate the neuroanatomy and physiology of the brain. He finds time out of his full schedule of classes, academic research and internship to tutor an inner-city elementary school student for at least four hours a week. He has been a past recipient of the Anthony Beirnes and Robert Byrd scholarships. Nicholas is an active member of the JHU Outdoors Club and takes part in ballroom dancing and Kung Fu lessons.

Aaron S. Wang
University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California

Aaron is majoring in Bioengineering while maintaining a 4.0 GPA for his major. He was recently selected a Beckman Scholar and has been awarded a grant of $15,000 to fund his research in cartilage tissue engineering. Aaron will also receive a scholarship from the Excellence in Education Program in honor of Senator Barry Goldwater. He is involved with Revelle College Council and the Chancellor's Organization of Allied Students (COAST). In COAST, he represents the University to the greater San Diego Community. In addition, Aaron was recently selected to be Social Chair for Golden Key National Honor Society. He also volunteers at Stanford University Hospital where he served as Volunteer Chair and at the UCSD Burn ICU. The California Association of Hospitals and Health Services awarded him a scholarship for his volunteer work. In Aaron's free time, he takes fencing and archery through UCSD recreational classes.