Founder of THRIVE at MIT
THRIVE:
Empowering, supporting, and representing the diverse MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science graduate student community
Strengthening ties amongst students, providing peer-to-peer support, and driving sustainable cultural change
Advocating for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Mental Health
Tools for Honing Resilience and Inspiring Voices of Empowerment
Navigators: One-on-One Support
Architects: Community Building
Navigators are graduate students with extensive training in mental health first-aid, diversity/equity/inclusion sensitivity, and bystander intervention. They provide one-on-one support to EECS graduate students in the areas of mental, physical, and relationship health.
Architects are students who represent MIT’s diverse graduate student body and focus on organizing community-building diversity, equity, inclusion, and wellness events.
Graduate Application Assistance Program.
Co-Founder
Mentorship Program Launch.
The MIT EECS department offers a Graduate Application Assistance Program, in which eligible applicants are paired with current EECS doctoral students to receive feedback on personal and research statements. This program is designed for underrepresented groups, defined as those groups for which representation in the EECS PhD program at MIT is significantly less than representation in the general US population.
This initiative, called the Graduate Application Assistance Program (GAAP), will be one of the largest student-run graduate mentorship programs in the United States in its first year, pairing over 100 committed mentors with nearly 300 applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.
Featured in MIT News.
GAAP is a concerted effort made possible with the help of multiple student groups and offices within MIT, including THRIVE at EECS, the EECS Graduate Students Association, Graduate Women in Course 6, and the EECS Communication Lab, with support from the EECS Graduate Office and the Committee on Diversity Equity and Inclusion.
