Meet the Team
Teacher-scholars and practitioners on the leading edge of theory and practice.
Center Team
Punam Anand Keller
Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management; Faculty Director, Center for Business, Government, & Society
As Senior Associate Dean, Punam Anand Keller oversees faculty and leads innovation and growth initiatives for Tuck’s educational offerings in the pre- and post-MBA space. Keller’s academic resume includes degrees from Bombay University and Northwestern, award-winning research, and faculty positions at NYU, Columbia, and UNC. She serves as associate editor of Journal of Consumer Psychology and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and Social Marketing Quarterly. Keller was formerly the President of the Association for Consumer Research.
Through the years, Keller has served as a consumer research consultant and educator to a variety of financial educators including FINRA foundation, CFPB, CFA, OECD, Filene Institute, NASAA, DCIIA, Dimensional, Goldman Sachs and NARPP. She has developed social marketing plans to promote financial education for the OFEFA, U.S. Department of Treasury, and NEFE. She served as the Social Marketing Officer of the Financial Literacy Center under Director AnnaMaria Lusardi, funded by the SSA.
Hannah Payson
Executive Director, Center for Business, Government & Society
Prior to Tuck Hannah worked for 10 years at Lloyd’s of London in the UK as a corporate responsibility manager for Lloyd’s award-winning Community Programme and expanded its corporate social responsibility efforts with a focus on environmental sustainability, ethics and values, diversity, and global reach. Before that, she worked for an education-focused nonprofit and in community investing. Hannah earned a BSc in Economics from University of Wales, Swansea.
Madeleine Bothe
Assistant Director, Program Management & Center Operations, Center for Business, Government & Society
Madeleine comes to Tuck from London where she worked for Climate-KIC: an EU initiative to create a “Knowledge Innovation Community” to tackle climate change. She was based at Imperial College London where she developed an educational plan for students to become entrepreneurial in their specialized fields so they not only have the tools to be able to commercialize their ideas, but also to enhance their research and educational potential. Prior to Climate-KIC, she worked at the London School of Economics & Political Science, and Dartmouth College.
She holds a BA from Dickinson College and enjoys, running, riding horses, skiing, and hiking with her husband and beloved rescue dog Sprinkle!
Affiliated Faculty
Paul A. Argenti
Professor of Corporate Communication
Paul Argenti is a pioneer in the field of corporate communication, teaching some of the earliest courses on the subject for Harvard Business School, Columbia Business School, and the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He wrote Corporate Communication, the first textbook in the field now in its eighth edition, along with Corporate Responsibility, Digital Strategies for Powerful Corporate Communication, The Power of Corporate Communication, and many other books and articles. He teaches courses on corporate communication, corporate responsibility, and general management, and has consulted and run training programs for hundreds of companies including ING, Mitsui, Novartis, Goldman Sachs, and the Detroit Lions. Argenti is a frequent contributor to Harvard Business Review and has appeared in numerous publications including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and others.
Emily J. Blanchard
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Professor Blanchard's research lies at the intersection of international economics and public policy. Her work explores the impact of global value chains on 21st century trade policy and the interaction of globalization and education. At Tuck, she teaches the core course Global Economics for Managers and a research to practice seminar on firms and international economic policy.
Aine Donovan
Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Board Member, Center for Business & Society
Aine Donovan is a Clinical Professor of Business Education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. She is the Director Emerita of the Ethics Institute at Dartmouth College, a campus wide initiative that serves the needs of faculty and students in ethics education. Prior to her tenure at Dartmouth, she was a professor at the United States Naval Academy where she developed the ethics curriculum and founded the first ethics center at Annapolis.
Her research emphasis, publications, and professional presentations are in the field of moral education, bioethics, business ethics and global strategies for ethical understanding. Her recent books include
Margaret Hanson
Clinical Professor of Business Administration; Research Scholar
Thomas C. Lawton
Visiting Professor of Business Administration
Professor Lawton is an authority on nonmarket strategy and business model innovation, particularly during corporate turnaround or in response to political risk. Much of his work explores organizational forms and strategy processes for engaging political and social actors and arenas. The research leverages institutional perspectives and extends capabilities theory beyond market settings and into the nonmarket contexts of corporate political activity (CPA) and corporate social responsibility (CSR). His research has explored and advanced our understanding of how the firm competes beyond market settings, partnering with government in industrial policy initiatives, engaging external stakeholders through intermediaries like trade associations, and managing and mitigating political risk when entering and embedding in foreign markets, particularly emerging economies. He teaches a course in International Strategy at Tuck.
Matthew Rees
Senior Fellow, Center for Business, Government & Society
Matthew Rees is the founder of Geonomica, an editorial consulting firm that has worked with clients across a number of industries, and a senior fellow at Tuck's Center for Business, Government & Society. He has cowritten, with Lloyd Minor, dean of Stanford University’s School of Medicine, Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being. A former journalist, Rees has worked for the Wall Street Journal and the Economist, and he is a frequent book reviewer for the Journal. He also has extensive government experience, serving as a speechwriter for President George W. Bush, former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick.
Anant K. Sundaram
Clinical Professor of Business Administration
Anant Sundaram teaches Corporate Valuation and Business and Climate Change at Tuck. His areas of expertise are business valuation, M&A, corporate governance, and financial strategies for profitable growth.
Curtis R. Welling
Clinical Professor
Curtis R. Welling D'71, T'77 is a clinical professor of business who teaches courses at the intersection on business, society and government. Prior to Tuck Professor Welling served as the president and chief executive officer of AmeriCares for 11 years, guiding the organization in delivering $9 billion in medicines and supplies around the world. Prior to AmeriCares Professor Welling worked in the investment banking and securities industries for 25 years. He teaches classes on Impact Investing, Social Entrepreneurship, Business and Society.
Student Leaders
Mitali Agarwal T’23
MBA Fellow
Hometown: Kanpur, India
Undergraduate Education: Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur
Prior Work Experience: Risk Consulting and Strategy at American Express
Career Interest and Goals: Strategy Consulting
Personal Interests: Reading, Painting
Chris Alvarez T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Chelmsford, MA
Undergraduate Education: Johns Hopkins University
Prior Work Experience: Technology Strategy Consulting and Project Management at Deloitte Consulting
Board Placement: Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS)
Career Interest and Goals: General Management, Consulting, and Health Care
Personal Interests: Sustainability, Environmental Preservation, Wildlife Protection, Mentoring, Hiking, Soccer, and Snowboarding
Isabel Baker T’23
MBA Fellow
Hometown: Goldens Bridge, NY
Undergraduate Education: Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service
Prior Work Experience: Dataminr, an AI platform for real time risk and event detection
Career Interest and Goals: I am passionate about leveraging data and AI to address the impact of some of the complex issues facing our world today including mitigating the effects of natural disasters and conflict-related events
Personal Interests: Running, skiing, hiking, needlepoint, and international politics
Elizabeth Barry T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Chappaqua, NY
Undergraduate Education: Hamilton College, B.A. in Economics & History
Prior Work Experience: Consulting: 4 years working within Grant Thornton’s Business Consulting practice, focusing primarily on digital transformations in the healthcare and not-for-profit spaces
Board Placement: Vital Communities
Career Interest and Goals: Tech & Telecommunications - I'll be interning at Altman Solon, a management consulting firm that focuses on these industries, over the summer!
Personal Interests: Running, swimming, cooking, skiing, exploring breweries in the Upper Valley
Margaret Bertasi T’23
MBA Fellow
Hometown: London, UK
Undergraduate Education: Princeton University
Prior Work Experience: US National Rowing Team Athlete
Career Interest and Goals: I'm interested in the global transition to sustainable business and the role corporations must play in climate change mitigation. I'd like to facilitate that process either through sustainability consulting, investing, or involvement in carbon markets.
Personal Interests: I love being active outdoors and am an avid telemark skier, snowboarder, cyclist, and rower. My indoor interests include cooking, knitting, sewing, and video games.
Charlotte Biffar T’23
MBA Fellow/Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Palo Alto, CA
Undergraduate Education: B.A. in Economics at University of California, Berkeley
Prior Work Experience: Prior to Tuck, Charlotte worked at Bain & Company in San Francisco and YouTube in London.
Board Placement: Positive Tracks
Career Interest and Goals: After graduating, Charlotte plans to focus on developing and implementing ESG strategy.
Divya Bobra T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Indore, India
Undergraduate Education: Rutgers University
Prior Work Experience: Bachelor of Commerce, University of Mumbai; Chartered Accountant, The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI)
Board Placement: Green Mountain Children's Center
Career Interest and Goals: Strategy Consulting (Summer Internship - Bain & Company, Boston)
Personal Interests: Birdwatching; Just started learning how to play the piano
Christian Borgen T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Oslo, Norway
Undergraduate Education: The University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
Prior Work Experience: Prior to Tuck Christian worked at JPMorgan Singapore, selling foreign exchange and interest rate derivatives to hedge funds. While at JPMorgan he was also 1 of 45 committee members worldwide who represented all 3000+ junior markets employees. His tasks included planning and executing the 2020 APAC virtual summer internship.
Board Placement: The Hanover Improvement Society
Career Interest and Goals: Christian has a long-term goal of managing a company. To get there he is trying to get as much hands-on experience as possible through entrepreneurship, start-ups, and general management programs.
Personal Interests: Downhill skiing, Soccer, Advanced Open Water Scuba Diver (100+ dives); world traveler (lived in six countries spanning three continents; visited 59 countries covering six continents)
Nathan Busam T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Chatham, NJ
Undergraduate Education: Dartmouth College
Prior Work Experience: Healthcare Consulting
Board Placement: West Central Behavioral Health
Career Interest and Goals: Striving to be an excellent clinician who has a voice in enhancing the way care is delivered to the multitude of communities we serve.
Personal Interests: Tennis, sheet pan cooking, and amateur woodworking
Shannon Conneely T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Weymouth, MA
Undergraduate Education: Pre-med at Yale University
Prior Work Experience: Conducted clinical research for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy with former professional football players at Boston University's Alzheimer's Disease Center. Transitioned into healthcare consulting at L.E.K. Consulting where I worked on a variety of strategy and diligence projects
Board Placement: High Horses Therapeutic Riding Program
Sansha Cornelio T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Undergraduate Education:B.Com & M.Com, Narsee Monjee, University of Mumbai; Chartered Accountancy (Indian-CPA equivalent), Institute of Chartered Accountants of India
Prior Work Experience:Venture Debt Investing - Alteria Capital (2019-2021); Mergers and Acquisitions Consulting - Ernst and Young (2017-2019)
Board Placement: Green Mountain Children's Center
Career Interest and Goals: Social Impact and Strategy Consulting, with a long-term goal to move to Impact Investing
Personal Interests: Dancing (Bollywood and Jazz), Teaching (and all things Education), Volunteering, Event-planning, Exploring new cuisines
Sophia Donovan T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Corning, NY
Undergraduate Education: GWU
Prior Work Experience: Capgemini Government Solutions, National Security & Defense
Board Placement: High Horses Therapeutic Riding Program
Career Interest and Goals: PM in tech and Social Impact focused Venture Capital
Personal Interests: Backpacking, hiking, endurance horseback riding, baking, ceramics
Hayden Doughty T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Wrentham, MA
Undergraduate Education: Brigham Young University
Prior Work Experience: Simmons Center for Cancer Research, Centro Hispano
Board Placement: Ottauquechee Health Foundation
Career Interest and Goals: As an MD/MBA candidate, my goal is to pursue a career as a physician-leader. I'm passionate about health equity and community health. I hope to use the skills I learn as a Board Fellow to alleviate healthcare disparities in my future area of practice.
Personal Interests: I love visiting National Parks, birdwatching, and tripod hockey!
Jordan Figueroa T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Arlington, TX
Undergraduate Education: The University of Texas - BS in Architectural engineering & MS in Structural engineering
Prior Work Experience: Structural Engineer at Datum Engineers
Board Placement: Headrest
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting with an interest in tech, construction and real estate
Personal Interests: Training my dogs, playing guitar, and getting involved in my community
Alexandra Fricke T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Undergraduate Education: Dartmouth
Prior Work Experience: Deloitte Consulting
Board Placement: Music to Life
Career Interest and Goals: Global competition strategy
Personal Interests: Have been playing the piano since I was a kid! Also avid reader and runner
Caitlin Gargan T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Rocky Point, NY
Undergraduate Education: University of Notre Dame
Prior Work Experience: Marketing and market research in consumer goods industry
Board Placement: Black River Innovation Campus
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting post-Tuck, then working in strategy with growth-stage companies
Martha Gilchrist T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Cleveland, OH
Undergraduate Education: Middlebury College
Prior Work Experience: Consultant at Putnam Associates (Life Sciences Strategy Consulting); Analyst at QES (Economic Consulting)
Board Placement: Music to Life
Career Interest and Goals: Personalized medicine & digital health, health equity, professional mentorship
Personal Interests: Anything outside (trail running, skiing, biking); live music; Cleveland sports
Anurag Gupta T’23
MBA Fellow/Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Mumbai, India
Undergraduate Education: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India
Prior Work Experience: Investment banking at J.P. Morgan
Board Placement: Upper Valley Habitat for Humanity
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting
Personal Interests: Travel, Hiking, Music
Sam Haws T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Redlands, CA
Undergraduate Education: UCLA, Business Economics, B.A.
Prior Work Experience: Automotive consulting at J.D. Power
Board Placement: Visions for Creative Housing Solutions
Career Interest and Goals: Pivoting my career within automotive toward electrification, sustainability, and future mobility
Personal Interests: Skiing, road cycling, mountain biking, ATV riding, hiking, reality television, board games, spending quality time with my nieces & nephews
Emily Hedison T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Acton, MA
Undergraduate Education: Hamilton College (Mathematics)
Prior Work Experience: Digital Marketing and Product Marketing
Board Placement: Whaleback Mountain
Career Interest and Goals: I hope to transition to a role in consulting as an opportunity to experience a broad range of industries and challenges they face, particularly in the tech sector. Long term, I hope to be a leader at a mission-driven tech company that uses its technology to better our world.
Personal Interests: Outside of school/work I love to be outside and especially enjoy hiking, biking, and skiing with friends
Daelin Hillman T’23
MBA Fellow
Hometown: New York City, NY
Undergraduate Education: McGill University
Prior Work Experience: Media/Marketing Strategy
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting, both commercial and public sector
Personal Interests: Hiking, live music, politics and history, basketball, skiing, strategy board games
McKenzie Hunt T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Sudbury, MA
Undergraduate Education: University of Pennsylvania
Prior Work Experience: Senior Marketing Analyst, Digitas
Board Placement: Whaleback Mountain
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting & Entrepreneurship
Personal Interests: Pickleball, Tripod, Skiing, Hiking, Hard Kombucha Brewing
Will Indvik T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Bainbridge Island, WA
Undergraduate Education: University of Southern California
Prior Work Experience: Investment Banking
Board Placement: WISE
Career Interest and Goals: Finance and Corporate Strategy; Real Estate
Personal Interests: Snowboarding; Food; Art; Peer-to-peer Mentorship
Akshay Kabra T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Indore, India
Undergraduate Education: Chartered Accountant
Prior Work Experience: Various finance roles at Unilever
Board Placement: White River Council on Aging
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting
Personal Interests: Reading, trying out new restaurants, hiking
Eda Kaceli T’23
MBA Fellow/Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Boston, MA
Undergraduate Education: Harvard University ('16)
Prior Work Experience:Prior to Tuck, I graduated from Harvard College in 2016 and worked for ~5 years in the tech industry both in Client Success and Product roles. Most recently, I was living in Chicago and working as a Product Manager at Civis Analytics, a data-science platform focused on helping non-profit/advocacy organizations, local city governments, and political campaigns use data insights to make business-driven decisions.
* Product Manager at Civis Analytics
* Senior Client Success Analyst at Civis Analytics
* Client Sucess Analyst at Civis Analytics
* Product Management Associate at Athenahealth
Board Placement: Northern Stage
Career Interest and Goals: For my summer internship, I will be working at Maine Venture Fund, a social impact VC fund focused on promoting economic growth in Maine by supporting small businesses and local entrepreneurs. Post-Tuck, I'm passionate about pursuing a career at the intersection of social impact and technology.
Personal Interests: Wine Tasting, Theater, Film & Entertainment, Sustainability, Civic Engagement, Social Entrepreneurship
Geet Kalra T’23
MBA Fellow
Hometown: Jalandhar (Punjab), India
Undergraduate Education: Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Prior Work Experience: Global Markets and Risk Analyst, Nomura Securities (2016-18)
Career Interest and Goals: Leveraging my skills to transform finance and business into a force for good.
Personal Interests: Bhangra (Punjabi) Dance, Hindi & Urdu Poetry , Ball sports (Cricket, Soccer, Squash)
John Kendall T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Charlotte, NC
Undergraduate Education: Princeton University
Prior Work Experience:Amazon, K&N Engineering
Board Placement: Public Health Council of the Upper Valley
Career Interest and Goals: I am interested in health and wellness, and I would love to one day lead a health and wellness focused consumer products company.
Personal Interests: Skiing, golfing, soccer, hiking, kayaking, watching sports, reading.
Andrew Key T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Gaithersburg, MD
Undergraduate Education: Cornell University, B.S. Industrial and Labor Relations
Prior Work Experience: Post-undergraduate: Consulting; Undergraduate internships: Public policy, government, and legal roles
Board Placement: Vital Communities
Career Interest and Goals: Finding ways to use my consulting skills to serve society and deliver positive social impact
Personal Interests: Spicy political debate, slopeside waffles, Jeopardy! shouting matches
Gabrielle Lobo T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Kansas City, KS
Undergraduate Education: B.S. Industrial Engineering, Kansas State University
Prior Work Experience: Strategy & Operations Consultant at Deloitte
Board Placement: Visions for Creative Housing Solutions
Career Interest and Goals: Career interests include marketing and management consulting. Interning this summer at McDonald's corporation in Chicago on the Global Menu Strategy team.
Personal Interests: Cooking, Tripod Hockey, Hiking
Alexandria Mar T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate Education: University of Southern California
Prior Work Experience: Clinical research at Edwards Lifesciences
Board Placement: Ottauquechee Health Foundation
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting / healthcare consulting
Personal Interests: Playing tennis, hiking, board games!
Elizabeth May T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Newton, MA
Undergraduate Education: Villanova University
Prior Work Experience: Equity Research
Board Placement: SPARK! COMMUNITY CENTER INC.
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting with a focus on ESG
Personal Interests: Reading, Special Olympics, Golf & Tennis
Colin McLeish T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Manchester, VT
Undergraduate Education: Swarthmore College
Prior Work Experience: Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
Board Placement: Good Neighbor Health Clinic
Career Interest and Goals: Clinical medicine, healthcare payment reform, global health and international development, social impact consulting
Personal Interests: Writing, ceramics, hockey
Daniel Moertl T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Vienna, Austria
Undergraduate Education: Vienna University of Economics & Business
Prior Work Experience: Before coming to Tuck, I was working as the Technology & Innovation Officer at Advantage Austria in New York. During my 4+ years at Advantage Austria I focused primarily on helping Austrian health care and technology companies enter and expand in the US market. Prior to that I spent 3 years as a project manager at a boutique consulting firm working with governmental economic development agencies to attract foreign direct investment from the US into their respective countries and regions.
Board Placement: CCBA (Carter Community Building Association)
Career Interest and Goals: My post-MBA interests are focused around digital innovation and corporate strategy, primarily in the health care industry.
Personal Interests: Sports (soccer, tennis, long-distance running, skiing, hockey); community development and connecting people with diverse backgrounds; cross-border and cross-cultural business
Joanna Morgan T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Washington, DC
Undergraduate Education: Philosophy and Russian Studies at the University of Virginia
Prior Work Experience: Consulting at Accenture in Washington, DC
Board Placement: Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS)
Career Interest and Goals: I'm interested in strategy at early-stage fintech, climate-tech, and consumer goods companies.
Personal Interests: I love reading contemporary fiction, hiking and camping, hosting dinner parties with themed menus, and learning new sports!
Emily Muller T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Norwich, VT
Undergraduate Education: Colby College
Prior Work Experience: Prior to Tuck I spent 4 years in consulting. Specifically, 2 years in commercial M&A and 2 years in tech, media, telecom strategy.
Board Placement: Upper Valley Trails Alliance
Career Interest and Goals: I am pursuing a career at the intersection of technology and sustainability.
Personal Interests: Anything outdoors, namely biking, xc skiing, hiking, and playing with my goldendoodle puppy.
Charlie Palfreyman T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Orem, UT
Undergraduate Education: BA Economics & Math from Brigham Young University, Ballard Center Social Impact Grant recipient,
Co-authored and presented award-winning publication in NCTM journal Mathematics Teacher
Prior Work Experience: Economic and Life Sciences Consultant at Charles River Associates; Pro bono consultant and investment committee member at Social Venture Partners
Board Placement: Northern Stage
Career Interest and Goals: I am really interested in using data to better understand, frame, and solve intriguing questions. Having been a recipient of positive life-altering pharmaceutical treatments for all of my adult life, I will be starting my post-Tuck career helping Vertex Pharmaceuticals leverage their data to develop their corporate strategy.
Personal Interests: I love being outdoors, particularly exploring new hiking trails, historic estates, working in the garden, and providing orchard production and pruning advice. I also love supporting the arts with a particular interest in opera, folk, and collaborative storytelling.
Aadyaa Pandey T’23
MBA Fellow
Hometown: Kathmandu, Nepal
Undergraduate Education: Trinity College, Hartford CT
Prior Work Experience:Analyst (PricewaterhouseCoopers) 2018-2019; Head of Impact and Sustainability Department (Royal Mountain Group of Companies) 2019-2021
Career Interest and Goals: I am interested in working at the intersection of business and social impact.
Personal Interests: Yoga, hiking, reflective writing, reading biographies, and music
Leticia Pfeffer T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Miami, FL
Undergraduate Education: New York University
Prior Work Experience: Seven years of experience in the non-profit sector. Previously led private sector policy & partnerships at the international advocacy organization Global Citizen.
Board Placement: Willing Hands
Career Interest and Goals: Social Impact, Corporate Purpose & Sustainability Consulting
Personal Interests: Skiing, Traveling, Yoga, Reading
Elizabeth Raboy T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: New York, NY
Undergraduate Education: New York University
Prior Work Experience:Management Consulting @ Capgemini
Growth Leader @ Flatiron School / WeWork; Oscar Health
Board Placement: Positive Tracks
Personal Interests: Skiing with waffles; drinking local beverages, writing prose-poetry in cafés; sight-seeing and people watching
Afriti Rahim T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Chennai, India
Undergraduate Education: University of California Los Angeles - Math & Econ major
Prior Work Experience: Consulting at PwC
Board Placement: Valley Court Diversion Programs
Career Interest and Goals: Finance / Investment Banking
Personal Interests: Health and wellness enthusiast, love the outdoors (Hiking, RVing, Camping), social impact
Sandhya Rajaraman T’23
MBA Fellow/Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Undergraduate Education: Georgia Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering
Prior Work Experience: Engineer in the smart manufacturing industry
Board Placement: WISE
Career Interest and Goals: Tech, strategy, social impact
Personal Interests: Reading, hiking, sewing
Sabira Rakhimova T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Undergraduate Education: Huntington University
Prior Work Experience: Actuary at Tufts Health Plan and Boston Medical Center
Board Placement: White River Council on Aging
Career Interest and Goals: Strategy & Operations in Healthcare, Technology, or intersection of the two
Personal Interests:I try to take advantage of the outdoors as much as possible: skiing, hiking, cycling, swimming in the Connecticut River. Additionally, I enjoy making meals and sharing them with friends.
Michael Sanduski T’23
MBA Fellow/Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Pleasantville, NY
Undergraduate Education:BA Economics, Political Science, and Latin American Studies - Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College; Concurrent MPP student at Harvard Kennedy School
Prior Work Experience:AVP, Public Finance Investment Banking at Citigroup (2013-2019); Senior Manager, Capital Markets and Treasury at Aura Financial (2019-2020)
Board Placement: Twin Pines Housing Trust
Career Interest and Goals: I am passionate about the built environment and it's potential to improve peoples lives. I intend to pursue a career in real estate development with a focus on placemaking, community development, and affordable housing.
Personal Interests: I am an avid outdoorsman and have greatly enjoyed making the most of everything the Upper Valley has to offer! From sunrise hikes at Mt Gile to paddle boarding on the Connecticut River, I feel very fortunate to live in such a beautiful place.
Mark Schneider T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Atlanta, GA
Undergraduate Education: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Prior Work Experience:'- Investment Banking at Credit Suisse (New York, NY), Corporate Development at The Coca-Cola Company (Atlanta, GA)
Board Placement: Black River Innovation Campus
Career Interest and Goals: Long-term, I hope to become a general manager for an organization. Immediately post-Tuck, my goal is to join a leadership development program or find an internal strategy or brand management role. This summer, I will be working at Dick's Sporting Goods in the Strategy group as part of its Executive Development Program.
Personal Interests: I'm a big sports fan, particularly basketball (both college and professional). In my free time, I enjoy playing sports (basketball, golf, hockey), watching movies, and spending time with friends and family.
Haley Shaw T’23
MBA Fellow/Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Brunswick, ME
Undergraduate Education: Dartmouth College
Prior Work Experience: ESG Analyst at an investment management firm
Board Placement: Upper Valley Haven
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting; social impact
Personal Interests: Baking, running, skiing, traveling
Tory Waldstein T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Needham, MA
Undergraduate Education: Harvard University
Prior Work Experience:Clarify Health (2.5 years at a health-tech start-up providing analytics to hospitals, health plans, and life science companies)
Capco (2 years as a consultant working with financial service companies)
Board Placement: Headrest
Career Interest and Goals: I am interested in health care and particularly value-based care, population health, and innovative payment models. I hope to be part of an organization that is working to provide better access to equitable and high quality care, while trying to reduce costs in our health care system.
Personal Interests: Skiing, pickleball, exploring the upper valley, cooking, lacrosse
Steve Warner T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Clearwater, FL
Undergraduate Education: University of Virginia
Prior Work Experience: US Navy
Board Placement: Upper Valley Trails Alliance
Career Interest and Goals: Management Consulting
Personal Interests: Hiking, skiing, coffee, photography
Kathryn Wilcox T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Undergraduate Education: DePaul University
Prior Work Experience: Prior to Tuck, I worked as a paralegal for financial services and intellectual property litigation.
Board Placement: Willing Hands
Career Interest and Goals: Consulting
Personal Interests: Running, reading and classical music
Charley Yu T’23
Nonprofit Board Fellow
Hometown: Philadelphia, PA
Undergraduate Education: New York University
Prior Work Experience: Prior to Tuck, Charley was a management consultant at Mercer, Accenture, and PwC, where she advised all levels of management on M&A transactions, due diligence initiatives, and operational effectiveness. She has been fortunate enough to work across a variety of industries, from natural resources to pharmaceuticals.
Board Placement: Visiting Nurse and Hospice for VT and NH
Career Interest and Goals: This summer, Charley will be interning as an investment banking associate in Bank of America's M&A group. She hopes to continue this careerpath in parallel with developing her entrepreneurial spirit.
Personal Interests: In her spare time, Charley is passionate about social impact and is the co-founder of a non-profit and a Colombia-based candy company.