ABOUT US
Empowering GSAS students for success, the Harvard Griffin GSAS Consulting Club (HGCC) offers an expansive platform to delve into the world of consulting. With a vibrant community of 1,000+ members, HGCC brings you consulting insights through networking events, specialized panels, and our annual Consulting Career Fair.
Engage in hands-on experience with the Harvard/MIT Case Competition and Harvard Griffin GSAS Volunteer Consulting Group (HGVCG). Elevate your interview prowess with tailored workshops, including case preparation and behavioral interview strategies.
Join HGCC for a transformative journey into the realm of consulting.
Meet the Executive Board
Established in 2006, the HGCC is guided by an Executive Board composed of committed graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from various departments across Harvard University. The Presidents, along with Senior Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents from our teams, collaborate to organize and spearhead diverse programming initiatives for the HGCC community.
Presidents
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President
Taylor Covington
Taylor is a PhD Candidate in the Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences program and the Leder Human Biology & Translational Medicine Program. She is co-advised by Dr. Thomas Michel and Dr. Ed Chouchani. Her thesis work focuses on how perinatal oxidative stress impacts cardiac development.
President
Liam Theveny
Liam is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biophysics at Harvard University. He uses advanced cryo-electron microscopy techniques to look at molecular machines directly within their native environments in the cell.
President
Jennifer Su
Jennifer is a PhD Candidate in the Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences program and the Leder Human Biology & Translational Medicine Program. She is completing her thesis work in the lab of Dr. Roby Bhattacharyya at Broad Institute. Her project focuses on understanding the community-level antibiotic resistance observed in Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE).
Professional Relations and Development (PRD)
Senior VP of PRD
Basit Salik
Basit is a cancer immunologist and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on hematopoietic stem cell aging and the development of therapeutic strategies for cancers of the blood. He earned his Ph.D. in immuno-oncology and brings a perspective that bridges scientific research and strategic thinking.
Senior VP of PRD
Claire Hinrichs
Claire is a Ph.D. Candidate studying Physics & Astronomy. Her thesis work is advised by Prof. Wystan Benbow and focuses on modeling the very-high-energy gamma-ray outbursts from black holes.
Senior VP of PRD
Jordan Vanderpool
Jordan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His dissertation is on medieval economic theory with a particular focus on the image of the merchant in Iberian literature.
Senior VP of PRD
Jonathan Briggs
Jonathan Briggs is a social impact and public policy leader with experience spanning education, workforce development, government, and elected leadership, including roles at the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services, the U.S. House of Representatives, and as an elected school board member. His career has focused on advancing equity and expanding opportunity for students, workers, and communities through policy, advocacy, and cross-sector leadership. He is currently pursuing a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School and holds degrees and certificates from Cornell Law School, Johns Hopkins University, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and National Louis University.
Senior VP of PRD
Anura Pareek
Anura is a Master in Public Policy student at Harvard Kennedy School. She completed her MBA at Indian School of Business (ISB) and has a background in social impact and public sector consulting.
VP of PRD
Andrew Hile
Andrew is a Ph.D. candidate in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, studying Semitic philology and the Hebrew Bible. His dissertation inventories textual variation across manuscript traditions to examine the mechanics of supplementation. He is a Harvard College proctor, HTR editorial assistant, and strategic R&D advisor in nonprofit EdTech.
VP of PRD
Hagar Moussa
Hagar is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Khalil Lab at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Her research focuses on optimizing epigenetic regulators using synthetic biology and protein engineering.
VP of PRD
Derek Tung
Derek is a MMSc student in Therapeutic Sciences at Harvard University. His thesis work in Prof. William Pu’s lab at Boston Children’s Hospital uses stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to study inherited cardiomyopathies.
VP of PRD
Courtney Bannerman
Courtney is a post-doc in Neurology at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital. She works in the lab of Dr. Brian Wainger, investigating the use of gene therapy to treat chronic pain.
VP of PRD
Bushra Dabbagh
Bushra Dabbagh is a Master in Public Administration candidate and Gleitsman Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. She has a background in biotechnology and immuno-oncology, with professional experience spanning translational research, drug development, and strategic partnerships in the biopharmaceutical industry. Her interests lie at the intersection of life sciences, business strategy, healthcare innovation, and public policy.
VP of PRD
Cathleen Krabak
Cathleen is a Ph.D. candidate in Immunology at Harvard Medical School. Her thesis work, advised by Dr. Xu Zhou, focuses on how environmental sensing by immune cells shapes the course of inflammatory responses in barrier tissues.
Case Competition (CC)
Senior VP of CC
Noah Zhang
Noah is a PhD candidate in the Molecules, Cells, and Organisms (MCO) program at Harvard University. His thesis work is advised by Dr. Dragana Rogulja and focuses on elucidating how the brain's circadian clock adapts to environmental stress to regulate behavior and physiology in Drosophila.
Senior VP of CC
Ana Dorador
Ana Dorador is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School, where she conducts research under the mentorship of Dr. Danesh Moazed. Her research focuses on understanding how genetic parasites drive genome instability, including the formation of chromosomal abnormalities.
Senior VP of CC
Siobhan Branfield
Siobhan is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston Childrens Hospital & Harvard Medical School. Her project is focused on understanding thrombosis in different inflammatory processes, including cardiovascular and respiratory disease in the Italiano Laboratory.
Senior VP of CC
Nancy Jung
Nancy is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological Sciences in Public Health Program and the Therapeutic Graduate Program at Harvard University. Her thesis work is advised by Dr. Rameen Beroukhim and focuses on developing computational methods to better understand cancer genomes.
VP of CC
Yiwen Chen
Yiwen is a project manager and scientist at the Center for Therapeutic Discovery at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She received a PhD in Chemical and Systems Biology from Stanford University and has previously worked at a biotech startup developing condensate modulators to treat cancer.
VP of CC
Dylan Bloch
Dylan is a Ph.D. Candidate in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University working in the lab of Dr. Gabriel Griffin. He is studying the regulation of endogenous retroviruses in cancer and investigating using them as an immunotherapy target.
VP of CC
Jennet Hojanazarova
Jennet is a Ph.D. candidate in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences program at Harvard University. Advised by Prof. George Church, her thesis work focuses on developing RNA-based methods for noninvasive diagnostics. She also serves as a Proctor at Harvard College and as a Fellow in Values Engagement.
VP of CC
Carmen Sanchez
Carmen is an MPH candidate in Health Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. A biomedical engineer by training, she has worked in healthcare strategy and innovation consulting, with a focus on digital health, health technology adoption, and market access.
Harvard GSAS Volunteer Consulting Group (HGVCG)
HGVCG principal leads are nominated after each engagement. If you need to reach the current leads, please contact us at harvardconsultingclub@gmail.com