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I have been a senior Life Science major at the US Military Academy.  As cadet-in-charge of the Big Brothers Big Sisters School Based Program, I was an active leader in an organization that reaches out as mentors to elementary/middle school students in the local community.  I was Operations Officer of the American Chemical Society.  West Point afforded me numerous leadership positions and military training experiences, including an internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, platoon leader during Cadet Basic Training, Drill Cadet Leadership Training at Fort Benning, and most recently Asst Battalion Operations Officer.  The MPhil at Cambridge will serve me immensely as I pursue a career in military medicine as a physician.  Throughout my career, I will strive to improve the health of soldiers who serve our county within the military, as well as all those who live within the communities in which I practice, and the world communities when called to administer humanitarian aide.

In 2013 I completed my Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Auckland. I specialised in Civil and Environmental engineering and developed a passion for environmental engineering in my final years. My work for an environmental consultancy since completing my undergraduate study has confirmed this passion and given me valuable practical engineering experience, and I am excited to contribute to the industry through research. My PhD will focus on contaminated site remediation, which is becoming an increasingly important global issue as usable land becomes a more valuable and limited resource. Biochar is engineered charcoal made from a range of materials and has a range of beneficial properties, including the ability to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and improve agricultural yield. My research investigates the influence of biochar on the behaviour of contaminants within soil and groundwater and the sustainability of its application compared with existing technologies. It is anticipated that this material can improve the overall sustainability of the land remediation industry by shifting the reliance from landfills to using renewable, easily accessible waste products for remediation.

I'll be starting at Cambridge after finishing my undergraduate degree at Yale in May 2011 (double majoring in physics and a combined program in ethics, politics, and economics) and then spending a year working with a biotechnology start-up. At Cambridge I'll pursue the MPhil in Micro- and Nanotechnology enterprise. I'm interested in the application of fundamental physics to the solution of problems with immediate human interest, especially in the fields of energy and medicine. After completing the MPhil I hope to continue to a PhD and to eventually pursue a career in nanotechnology development (either in academia or in the entrepreneurial sector).

Links

http://cambridge.academia.edu/EllaMcPherson
http://www.wolfson.cam.ac.uk/fellows/govbody/open/?i=12386

For my MA in History at Queen’s University, I worked on a research project which examined the ways in which British literary and governmental representations of political violence in Bengal sought to de-politicize the actions of anti-colonial revolutionaries. My PhD at Cambridge expands upon this research by examining the global scope of imperial networks of surveillance and Indian radical politics during the first half of the twentieth century. My research follows the transformation of laws of sedition into laws of 'terror' in both international and British imperial law from the beginning of the First World War until the end of the 1930s, with the intention of exploring the origins of terrorism as a legal category and a global idea.

Mike Meaney is the Head of Learning Growth at Multiverse.io, a London-based start-up building a digital apprenticeship platform to modernize pathways to high-quality jobs. He helps build the product, curriculum, and delivery models that support the growth and scale of Multiverse. He was previously a Research Lead at Facebook, where he focused on research and product development to improve tools for social mobility. Earlier in his career he served as an Innovation Fellow and Product Manager at Arizona State University, and as a middle school science teacher in the Isaac School District as a Teach for America Corps Member.

Mike holds a Ph.D. in Educational Research from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He holds a master's degree from Arizona State University and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University. He maintains an academic appointment with Arizona State University, where his research explores the design of inclusive learning at massive scale, and takes a transdisciplinary methodological approach blending data mining, design, and philosophy. His research has appeared in publications by the ACM Proceedings of Learning @ Scale, the Brookings Institution, and the Roosevelt Institute.

He serves on the Board of Directors of a non-profit educational technology start-up called See More Impact Labs, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Camp Catanese Foundation, a comprehensive college-preparation program for first-generation college students in Phoenix.

Previous Education

Georgetown University
Arizona State University

I was born and raised in India, and completed my Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at the University of Toronto in Canada. It is here, at UofT, that I developed an interest in children’s cognitive development. The findings of my honours thesis prompted me to think about the role that caregivers can play in promoting children’s development. At Cambridge, I will examine how parent–child conversations at mealtimes influence children’s self-regulation. This is an important line of inquiry to pursue because self-regulation is associated with children’s short-term success as well as their long-term wellbeing. Through my research, I hope to inform low-cost family interventions to promote children’s wellbeing by exploring how a seemingly mundane family routine could have profound implications for children’s developmental outcomes. My goal is also to translate and mobilize knowledge gained through research for stakeholders in our community, such as parents and teachers.

Previous Education

University of Toronto Psychology 2019

Sanjana is an Advocacy Director at (ISC)2, the world’s largest education and membership association for cybersecurity practitioners. Sanjana has lived and worked in India, Belgium, U.S. and the U.K. Creating relevant and engaging education products and services for different age groups, sectors and geographies has been a through line in her career. She has designed and led large professional development events, formed partnerships across academia-industry-government ecosystem, built and grown teams, set vision for new products, and established go-to-market strategies. As a Gates Scholar, Sanjana completed an MPhil and a PhD in Education. Sanjana is a life-long learner. In 2020, she completed an Executive MBA from Cranfield University. More recently, she has been exploring the lives and works of different philosophers as part of an online philosophy school.

Previous Education

Bangalore University MSc Psychology 2000
Mount Carmel College, Bangalore BA Psychology, Economics & Sociol. 1998

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanjana-mehta

My name is Katia Mehu and I was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. I leave behind a career in appellate prosecution in the United States (Phoenix, Arizona), to pursue a LL.M. at the University of Cambridge. I am committed to upholding the principles of human dignity, equality, and equity at the global level and believe that promoting the rule of law at the national and international levels provides one mechanism to achieving those ideals. Academically, I will be pursuing a specialisation in international law at the Faculty of Law. My post-graduate programme will encompass coursework in international criminal law, international human rights law, law of armed conflicts, and international environmental law. I will obtain theoretical knowledge of legal principles unique to public international law, encompassing its core values, concepts, practices, and terminology. Once I complete my studies, I hope to pursue a career in the field of public international law.

Born in Brooklyn, New York and currently residing in New Jersey, I obtained my B.S. in physics at Rutgers University. Propelled by my desire to search for the fundamental truths in the physical reality that we live in, I chose to partake in experimental high energy research. This field is extremely exciting to me because with the completion of the Standard Model in 2012, it is believed that the next discovery will significantly push the boundaries of what we know and enlighten us to what truly are the most fundamental particles of this universe. Having worked with data from the Large Hadron Collider on searching for evidence of supersymmetry for 3 years, I also worked on future collider experiments with fellow physicists at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratories. Currently, I am residing in Geneva, Switzerland in anticipation for the results of run 2 of the Large Hadron Collider, which began in June of 2014.

I first became interested in the intersection between social and environmental justice while working as an AmeriCorps volunteer for the Ocean State Environmental Education Collaborative. At AmeriCorps, I was responsible for teaching environmental science to youth in hospitals, assisted living facilities, and after school programs. My experience working with underserved groups taught me the importance of community-based conservation and inspired me to study environmental science at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. Today, I lead outreach initiatives that help protect human rights and endangered species on a global level. I am particularly passionate about ensuring the health and safety of indigenous communities while working with others to end the illegal wildlife trade. I am excited to join the University of Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership program because it is the only academic course in the world that offers an interdisciplinary focus on biology while teaching management skills that are essential for the next generation of conservation leaders. As a Gates Cambridge Scholar, I look forward to working with others to protect people and wildlife throughout the world.

Previous Education

The Evergreen State College Environmental Science 2013
South Puget Sound College General Studies 2011

A recent graduate in Political Science and Comparative Human Development, along with a minor in Creative Writing, I am deeply committed to improving education in my native Pakistan. Specifically, the goal is curbing Muslim extremism, and empowering young people with their native identity and values. Since I was thirteen, I have been involved with progressive Islamic schooling. A new type of schooling, it aims to combine secular education with Islamic values to develop ‘well-rounded’ Muslims that abstain from militant extremism. The MPhil in Educational Leadership and School Improvement program at Cambridge, followed by an M.Ed. from Harvard University, will instruct me in various leadership techniques and how they may be adapted to progressive Islamic schools. With this training, I will work at a secondary school and the government in Pakistan. The Gates-Cambridge Scholarship is a lifelong gift, and I hope that I will be able to collaborate with this community wherever I go.

Originally from LA, I graduated from Harvard with a degree in American History and Literature. My longstanding passion has been traveling and China in particular. I had an intense fascination with China since I was little, and I began studying Mandarin in ninth grade. I spent my freshman summer at Harvard’s Beijing Academy, and the following summer I worked for NBC as a guide and translator at the Olympics. Last summer I researched climate change at the United Nations World Food Programme in Uganda, and it was then that I decided to pursue the MPhil in Development Studies.

Responsible for Medical Strategy for Pomalyst/ Imnovid at Celgene
Previously Strategy Consultant @ IMSConsulting & OC&C Strategy Consultants

As an undergraduate studying International Relations and Middle East Studies at Brown University, I conducted ethnographic fieldwork on the lives of Sri Lankan migrant domestic workers in Lebanon. I learned that my interlocutors did not consider themselves marginalized subjects. Instead, they articulated their experiences as empowered women using Buddhist practices to navigate their everyday lives. Growing up in Sri Lanka during the Civil War, I witnessed similar discrepancies between the way local populations viewed themselves and the assumptions human rights organisations made when proposing policy. Through these experiences, I came to value anthropology’s emphasis on localised ways of life as a tool for improving policy initiatives. At Cambridge, I will investigate how human rights organisations with deeply secular roots can work to protect migrant domestic workers whose primary motivations are non-secular. I seek to confront the liberal assumptions of feminist and labor theorists engaging with the lives of migrant domestic workers and to explore the imbrication of religious embodiment in post-colonial subject formation. Ultimately, I hope to amplify the voices of women caught between the difficult experiences of migration and the problems of representation in secular human rights discourse. I am excited to work with the Gates and Cambridge communities to develop a deeper public consciousness about the role of religion as a mode of empowerment.

Previous Education

Brown University

Growing up in Bejuma, Venezuela, I witnessed how the unreliable energy system of the country threatened food supply, health care facilities, public transportation, and access to clean water. These factors contribute to widespread poverty, rising death tolls, and a mass displacement of refugees in countries that experience similar crises. After obtaining a BSc in Chemical and Biological Engineering at Colorado State University, I developed a fascination for the beauty of chemical processes and their power to deliver uncompromised and sustainable energy access. This is important because I believe every person deserves safe and renewable energy to enjoy a high quality of life. During my Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering, I will investigate liquid hydrogen production and commercialization as an alternative to decarbonize the aviation sector and manage climate change. The process will be challenging and intriguing because of the difficulties of handling and storing hydrogen within aviation constraints, minimizing boil-off, and addressing the safety of hydrogen in the liquid state. This research will address energy scarcity, climate refugees, and ultimately improve the lives of people in the most vulnerable regions of the world.

Previous Education

Colorado State University Chemical and Biological Eng 2021

Previous Education

Universita' La Sapienza, Rome Laurea Chemistry 2000