Meet the Board
Co - President
Kaitlyn is in the class of 2026 and studying Government and English. Her research interests lie in foreign policy, immigrant/refugee rights, and educational equity. Her issue area is Governance & Society.
Co - President
Karen Yang is Co-President of HUTT and a sophomore studying History and Economics! Previously, she has been the Issue Area Director of the Governance and Society branch of HUTT. In her free time, you can find her hunting for matcha or curating Spotify playlists.
Director of Research
Jenny, a sophomore double concentrating in Government and Slavic Languages & Literatures, is proud to serve as Director of Research this year. Her research interests focus on territorial disputes and ethnic tensions in the post-Soviet sphere. This summer, she will be interning at the International Centre for Defense and Security in Estonia.
Director of AI and the Environment
Simon Ma is a senior concentrating in Statistics and Linguistics, keen on exploring the intersections between the environment, technology and policy. Previously, he was an ESG analyst intern for PricewaterHouseCoopers Hong Kong where he worked on biodiversity credits for HK ocean park and compliance frameworks like CDP and TCFD. In the past semester, he served as working group director for the topic AI and the environment. He is also an AI research fellow at the Kempner Institute at Harvard working on the interpretability and limitations of large language models.
Miguel Chiapetta
Director of Media
Miguel Chiapetta is a junior concentrating in Economics, interested in political economics and applied math. This past summer, he worked as a senior counselor at a summer program through PBHA. In addition to HUTT, Miguel serves as Treasurer of Fuerza Latina and volunteers through PBHA.
Director of Governance & Society
Hugo Chiasson is a sophomore in Currier double concentrating in Government and Sociology. He currently serves as a working group director in HUTT, guiding research related to domestic and international immigration policy. This past summer, he worked in the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom as a Communications and Digital Intern.
Director of Great Power Competition
Nellie is a sophomore neuroscience concentrator and is very excited to be in her first semester with HUTT as the Great Power Competition working group director. She has worked with policy writing as a member of the Harvard Undergraduate Foreign Policy Initiative as well as the Army ROTC Military Strategy Initiative. She loves continuing to explore policy with HUTT!
Director of Sustainability Policy
Malachi is a Sophomore in Adams studying Linguistics and Economics. He is the director of the working group for sustainability policy, and looks forward to the future of HUTT and the evolution of our research. He is from Colorado, and thus believes that west coast is best coast, but that alpine deserts are best.
Director of Operations
​Virgil Guo is a sophomore from Kansas, concentrating in Statistics and Human Biology, Behavior, and Evolution, with a secondary in Computer Science. Outside of HUTT, he is involved in Hematologic Malignancies Outcomes Research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, being a Teaching Fellow for STAT 100, serving as President for the Harvard QuestBridge Scholars Network (QSN), and volunteering through PBHA. He is always interested in the intersection between healthcare and policy, and hopes to plan events that connect students from diverse backgrounds who are interested in working with think tanks.