Our Stewards
Our bargaining unit is spread out all over Cambridge and Boston. To make sure every student worker has a connection to their union, we elect stewards to represent different parts of our membership. Stewards disseminate information to workers across departments, often through regularly recurring meetings and by working together with staff and department reps. Stewards also handle workplace grievances with our Contract Enforcement and Education Committee (CEEC), and generally maintain an active pulse on the issues facing workers across our unit. They can also issue an advisory opinion to our Executive Board with a majority vote and 50 sign-ons from members. If you are looking to support organizing efforts in your program, contact your Steward.
Also: many turfs currently have several vacant Steward positions, so we welcome interest in filling those seats!
Division of Medical Sciences (4 of 10 filled)
Morgan Glass (BBS): [email protected]
I find it really rewarding to organize with the Union across Harvard and make an impact for fellow student workers (especially in these crazy times)! In lab, I study the influence of aging on breast cancer, and outside it, I love to explore Boston and find the best used book stores and thrift shops.
Justin Delano (BIG): [email protected]
Ben Finander (BBS): [email protected]
Hi everyone! I’m a BBS G4 just starting to get more involved the union recently because unions fight back against attacks on science. Outside of the lab, my passions include teaching and musical theater.
Laila Norford (BIG): [email protected]
Cambridge Sciences (7 of 7 filled)
Bailey Plaman (Chemical Biology): [email protected]
I got involved with HGSU my G1 year because I felt that the graduate students before me put so much effort into making sure Harvard was a better place to get your PhD for me. I felt I owed it them to pay it forward for the next generation. When I’m not sitting on HGSU zoom meetings in lab, I am slowly and steadily researching a dynamic bridge that transports a crucial component of bacterial armor to its outermost layer. The hope is that if we can understand how this bridge works, we can disrupt it to make bacteria more permeable to antibiotics. Ask me about my hobbies – I have too many to list!
Yi Lin Zhou (OEB): [email protected]
Nate Malone (CCB): [email protected]
Will Golay (Astrophysics): [email protected]
Michael O’Brien (Physics/MCB): [email protected]
Ruth Tweedy (EPS): [email protected]
Noah McNeal (Physics): [email protected]
Humanities and Harvard Divinity School (5 of 5 filled)
Cana McGhee (Music): [email protected]
As a Steward, I love getting to know members in our turf, and I am passionate about creating inviting spaces for us to be in community with one another, especially since our research is largely done independently. I also care about making sure that all members — regardless of their in-unit status — have access to benefit funds, protections, and support that HGSU has fought for. Outside of union organizing and dissertating, I am usually reading lit fic, training for a road race, or caring for my cozy family of houseplants.
Isaijah Shadrach (Philosophy): [email protected]
Sofiya Boroday (Slavic): [email protected]
Hope Nicholson (Slavic): [email protected]
Gio DiRusso (Committee for the Study of Religion): [email protected]
Social Sciences (2 of 5 filled)
Brianna Alderman (Economics): [email protected]
I have been actively involved in the union as a steward for the last year. I am also a member of the union’s solidarity committee! My research uses tools from labor economics, economic history, and political economy to further understand the lived experiences of Black Americans throughout U.S. history. Outside of school, I enjoy reading romance novels, watching procedural crime shows like Law and Order: SVU, and finding new places to eat in Boston!
Edan Larkin (History): [email protected]
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (1 of 5 filled)
Mady Corrigan (Engineering MS&ME): [email protected]
Harvard School of Public Health (2 of 3 filled)
Laura Chen (Population Health Sciences): [email protected]
I signed a card during orientation week of my first year and have gradually gotten more involved as I’ve witnessed the many challenges that student workers face. I’ve really appreciated all the ways I’ve been able to connect to folks across the school through HGSU. I’m a social epidemiologist currently interested in the health consequences of time poverty (constraints on time) and more broadly, how systems of power and oppression shape population health in the US. Big fan of sitting outside, little free libraries, lily of the valley, and sending union memes that nobody asked for 🙂
Beau Schaeffer (Epidemiology): [email protected]
Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School (2 of 3 filled)
Ali Epstein (MPP): [email protected]
I’m an MPP student at HKS dedicated to understanding the intersection of education, workforce, and labor policy—especially how these issues influence civic engagement. I’m committed to advancing worker rights, which is a big reason I chose to become a steward for HGSU. In my free time, you can find me playing board games (huge Stonemaier Games fan), taking long walks around the Boston-Cambridge area, or playing volleyball and tennis.
Chet Agni (MPP): [email protected]
Harvard Law School (4 of 5 filled)
Finlay Adamson: [email protected] Please feel free to reach out to me over email or at (253) 509-2614!
Sophia Leswing: [email protected] Before law school, Sophia spent a year at the NYC Mayor’s Office of Workforce Development and two years as an organizer at SEIU Local 32BJ where she helped residential building service workers unionize their workplaces. Sophia is currently a member of the Labor and Employment Action Project at HLS and a Research Assistant for the Center for Labor and a Just Economy (CLJE).
Anjali Katta: [email protected]
Kaitlin Knocke: [email protected]
Graduate School of Design (2 of 2 filled)
Corinna Anderson: [email protected]
Anny Li: [email protected]
Graduate School of Education & Department of Continuing Education (2 of 2 filled)
Jacob Wolf: [email protected]
Hi y’all! I’m a G3 PhD at HGSE doing a secondary in Anthropology. My research uses qualitative and ethnographic methods to explore how K12 computing education shapes young people’s worldviews. I’m involved in organizing because I believe the union can be a powerful space to bridge between our local challenges as workers and the broader struggle for justice.
Maddie Kingan:[email protected]
