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Agreed!

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👏👏👏 @142279549415587

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@142279549415587 thank you! 🙏👏

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How many of us in this group are in SoCal? Leave a reaction to this post if you are so that we can count.

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Thank you so much all 🙏❤️

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Agee with you, Thank you @142279549415587

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🎉 Welcome Ron Potok PhD ‘06! Ron is the Founder of Nodal Data @202589345959950 🎉 Welcome Joshua Levy MPP ‘26! Congrats on your recent commencement! @196812631728382 🎉 Welcome Regine Amor Tenorio MPA ‘26! Congrats on your recent commencement! @57187506323478 🎉 Welcome Amanda Campos MPA ‘26! Congrats on your recent commencement! @43783047667765 🎉 Welcome Deniz Aksel PhD ‘22! Denis works as the Head of Bioengineering at Cellino @50736515829935

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Thank you for all your hard work!! ✨

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🎉 Welcome Julia Morton AB ‘07! Julia is a Senior User Experience Manager at Fandango @29055621554188 🎉 Welcome Madhav Datt MBA ‘25 MS ‘25! Madhav is the CEO and Cofounder of Polynomic @36481485815950 🎉 Welcome Merve Kosesoy MLA ‘23! Merve is the Founder and CEO of LactiQ Intel @161693321715737 🎉 Welcome David Garcia AB ‘11! @208409160888414 🎉 Welcome Gabby Malatesta AB ‘13! Gabby works in Data Science & Ethics at Amex @104646894948457 🎉 Welcome Kent Joshi ALM ‘16! Kent is a Senior IT Project Manager @64158338924603 🎉 Welcome Jessica Blanton JD ‘18! @144315280027716 🎉 Welcome Andrew Zaso EXT ‘26! @249091460177989 🎉 Welcome Gilbert Kofie ALM ‘25! Gilbert is an Oracle PL/SQL Developer @32577394053317 🎉 Welcome Angel Yin-Hua Hsu SM ‘23! Angel works in Machine Learning and Core Infrastructure at Stripe @5605418868791

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🎉 Welcome Tamas Kokeny MBA ‘24! Tamas is a Partner at Onyx Sciences @281320861241374 🎉 Welcome Elizabeth Santoro AB ‘01! @69144829538395 🎉 Welcome Manee Ngozi Nnamani HGSE ‘23! Manee is the CoPedagogy Lead at the Abigail Adams Institute and the Director of Formation at The Lagoon School @83339746791623 🎉 Welcome David Magill AB ‘86! David is a Senior Full Stack Developer at Bright Horizons @220654280425631 🎉 Welcome Upasana Unni AB ‘11 MBA ‘16! Upasana is the COO at Sayata. @108894651175131

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Hi folks! We have gotten interest in opening a couple more regional specific channels, but before we do I want to validate interest and that we have at least 3 folks per region able to help with moderation and channel management. I will put forth a couple of polls! If you are highly interested in a geography not in the polls, respond with it please (or emoji react if you see it listed already).

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^ h/t @161529626423535 for this

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^ h/t @101949672292594 for this

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Photo from the HIT meetup at Alumni Day! Huge thanks to @214078920368157 for leading planning and the team @127019413184690 @129768209023197 @199475981197328 @281406458589217 who helped make this happen. Amazing turnout!

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🎉 Welcome Anand Patel MPA ‘25! Anand works on Policy and Research at the International Fund for Peace @117042187362480 🎉 Welcome Raia Karmali MEd ‘26! Raia works on Learning & Innovation at Accenture @190610799644859 🎉 Welcome Hoa Lu AB ‘01! Hoa is an Engineering Manager at Google @241055190544575 🎉 Welcome Marina Landia Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative ´26! @180208271405106 🎉 Welcome Kevin Jernigan AB ‘87! Kevin is the Chief Product Officer at J4 Capital @276467564966083

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let’s go SoCal!

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hi all! my name is Zachary Sardi-Santos. Recent graduate of the College where I studied Applied Math and Computer Science. Played on the Varsity Men's Soccer team and also acted in musicals and short films through the HRDC! Just moved to San Francisco for my first job - would love to connect with folks in the Bay Area!

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Warm welcome! Definitely join @[email protected] to connect with folks locally!

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🏡 Lease takeover / sublet open for a studio unit starting on or around 7/1 to 7/3 flexible and ending 9/30 with option to renew! Luxury studio in a high rise in Downtown Brooklyn with access to 15 subway lines and a large mall with Trader Joe's, Target, food hall, Sephora, Lululemon, movie theater all within a few mins walking distance! Washer dryer in unit, building has pool, gym, sky lounge and other amenities! Please dm me if you know a friend or relative who's interested 😊

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Hi all! Jumping in for Nadia while she's out. Friendly reminder, this group is meant to stay tech-focused, so housing and sublet posts fall a little outside our guidelines (relevant content only, no personal promotions). Totally understand the share, just flagging so we keep the feed on track. Thanks everyone!

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Yes!

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Yes, please keep “asks” to the @[email protected] and not General Discussion channel please. Thanks Alexis 🙏

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Sorry you are going through this and hope you stay safe. Yes, and reminder to all to please post once in asks and not post ask content or duplicate posts in other channels please.

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Thanks very much. Great re these posts staying in Asks and there only.

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I have gotten a couple of questions about starting a HIT Tech Investors chat; I am envisioning this being an open channel (anyone in the community can join) but want to first validate there’s sufficient interest and folks willing to volunteer and manage a channel. Sending a poll shortly, please reply with your thoughts 💭

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Open to changing the thresholds and to feedback but worry about opening channels with insufficient moderation/management support or overall relevance to the HIT community

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🎉 Welcome Julianne Ross AB ‘11! Julianne is a Senior Manager of Content & Product at LitCharts @187505471176722 🎉 Welcome Andrew McHugh ALM ‘24! Andrew is a Founder and CEO Leadership Coach and Organizational Effectiveness Consultant @272043429883992 🎉 Welcome Marvin Urzua AB ‘11! Marvin is a VP of Product Management at Clarify Health Solutions @254907013689345 🎉 Welcome Alyson Harvey AB ‘25! Alyson is a Fellow at Longevity Biotech Fellowship @243138199322651 🎉 Welcome Kitty Chan ALM ‘26! Kitty is the Lead Product Designer at Code for Boston @29120062869759

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🎉 Welcome Rob Shekoyan AB ‘24! Rob is the Founder of Aevitas House and a Synthetic Biology Researcher and Stem Cell Scientist @195060519927960 🎉 Welcome Rishab Gupta MEd ‘25! Rishab is the Cofounder at Trao and Founding Engineer at Vihara @86660142362762 🎉 Welcome Cynthia Tam ALM ‘22! Cynthia is the CEO of Native Finance Development Corporation @175934929920135 🎉 Welcome Nureldin Mohamed @265188863422517 🎉 Welcome Georgia Liu Postdoc ‘25! Georgia is the Founder of Causena @188557704585261

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Hello! Is there a Chicago network, or enough people there?

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Hey Ruma! There isn’t a Chicago channel yet nor enough momentum to start one; feel free to use general channels like @[email protected] or @[email protected] for connecting with folks there for now.

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@43551018774562 mind deleting this here and posting over in the @[email protected] channel? This is what Asks is for and that way it doesn’t spam General Discussion when there are hopefully some replies!

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🎉 Welcome Vinayak Mallya PLDA’35! Vinayak is the Sr Director of Sales and Client Services at eInfochips @127509039415396

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🎉 Welcome Shira Fischer HMS masters '14! Shira is the Founder of Evident Health Policy Consulting @11175639142607 🎉 Welcome Elena Teed ALM 2018! Elena is the Vice President Relationship Manager at JP Morgan @273980275572914 🎉 Welcome Amalie Weber AB 96! Amalie is the Head of Public Sector Legal at Scale AI @204938760175870

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Happy Father's Day to all the dads and father figures in this group!

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🎉 welcome Wen (Taylor) Zhang HES ‘23! Wen works as a Global Sustainability Manager at Aptar @245388711846028 🎉 welcome Shahid Azim CSS ‘02! Shahid is the CEO, Managing Partner, & Co-Founder of C10 Labs @123351628542043 🎉 welcome Vinod Tiwari ALM ‘26! Vinod is the Principal Accessibility Engineer at MathWorks @227324129710109 🎉 welcome Wentao Xiong PhD ‘18! Wentao is an Applied Scientist and Research Economist @190400279089323 🎉 welcome Memie (Memory) Osuga AB ‘20! Memie is a Product Manager at Capstone Project NASA @41618501570605 🎉 welcome Kiran Govindaraju GMP ‘23! Kiran is the Co-founder of ELLI Platform @278760624505059 🎉 welcome Tarek Aloch ALB ‘19! Tarek is an Enterprise Systems Engineer at Harvard Business Publishing @144130562855133 🎉 welcome Vasudev (Vasu) Vadlamudi AB ‘06! Vasu is a Group Product Manager, ML at Google @139633698582622 🎉 welcome Sally Shan EdM ‘23! @75509920731153 🎉 welcome Greg Bybee AB ‘07! Greg is the Co-founder and CEO of Avela @273924591984827

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🎉 Welcome Johnny Chou ALM'25! Johnny is a Vice President at Morgan Stanley. @170609136939159 🎉 Welcome Aude Ouensanga MPH’23! Aude is a Healthcare Strategy & Growth Leader, and a French Foreign Trade Advisor. @192899966865638 🎉 Welcome Sophie Thorpe SM '25! Sophie is an Associate Software Engineer at Fitch Group. @237211345780830 🎉 Welcome Tejaswi Polimetla SM '26! Tejaswi is a Data Scientist. @192324357386436 🎉 Welcome Luca Giani MPP ‘22! Luca is a Senior Principal at Alumni Ventures and a Co-founder at Ilios Therapeutics. @234462281502910 🎉 Welcome Henry Dowling AB '21! Henry is Co-founder of Joinstash. @255859909247157

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🎉 Welcome Zachary Sardi-Santos AB '26! Zachary is a Growth Team Lead & Board member at a non-profit called The Camel. 🎉 Welcome Alexander Landia ALI ‘26! Alexander is Harvard Advanced Leadership Institute Fellow and founder of MahaGuardian. @49362294042675 🎉 Welcome Spencer Evans AB '17! Spencer is a CTO and Co-founder at Bixby. @267782704889968 🎉 Welcome Mark Feng AB '11 and MBA '16! Mark is Founder of DecorX. @152870854852714

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Hi all! HAE SoCal is hosting our Summer Social on Thursday, July 23 at The Bungalow Santa Monica. An evening of networking with Harvard-affiliated founders, investors, and anyone interested in entrepreneurship and startups across SoCal, plus the kickoff of our new season of programming. It's free and registration is required: https://www.harvardae.org/events-overview/2026/hae-socal-summer-social Would love to see you there. Feel free to share with anyone in the Harvard community who'd enjoy it.

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Thank you so much for sharing this with the HIT community. In the future, can you please share to the @[email protected] channel instead of here (just posting once in the dedicated channel). That would be really appreciated. Thanks again for sharing!

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🥳 welcome Nilufar Hossain AB ‘00! @254932129153064 🥳 welcome Ben Guild AB ‘16! Ben is a Member of the Technical Staff at Apple @236592618831977 🥳 welcome Gabriel Guillen-Gonzalez ALB ‘16! Gabriel is a Senior Software Engineer at PayPal @252497201463426 🥳 welcome Grant Williams AB ‘25! Grant is a Data Scientist at Tesla @237417319653502 🥳 welcome Vijay Jain AB ‘11! Vijay is a Tech Lead & Staff Systems Engineer at PsiQuantum @262847854547180 🥳 welcome Ala’a Kolkaila MCMPA ‘24! Ala’a is an Advisory Board Member of the MIT Sloan Visiting Fellows Program @184035489906926 🥳 welcome Dr. Fran Galiè Postdoc ‘09! Fran is the Director of Vault Medical Strategy at Veeva Systems @236880431956008 🥳 welcome Angel Zhou AB ‘20! Angel is an Investor at Synergis Capital @212485386809566 🥳 welcome Ralph Scronce ALM ‘21! Ralph is a Senior Software Engineer at CoAspire @56325090340869 🥳 welcome Gleb Lantsman HGSE TIE ‘22! Gleb is the Co-founder and an English Teacher at Royal English @85040973226220

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To follow up here, @129768209023197 is leading the charge to coordinate plans on management for this channel and other ideas. If you want to volunteer to help and are not already added, let him or I know

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Thank you so much, Stefan 🎉

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🎉 welcome Clifford Boan ALB ‘26! @238018950610995 🎉 welcome Oluwaseun Akinfolarin EdM ‘21! @204694366507178 🎉 welcome Heidi Lai AB ‘22! @179482405163010 🎉 welcome Javad Mushtaq MC/MPA ‘25! @153360548286598 🎉 welcome Samantha Fletcher EdM ‘21! @4544142524590 🎉 welcome Fenton Hughes EdM ‘22! @30945340055770 🎉 welcome Peter Flo Grinde-Hollevik SM ‘26! @281286132387925 If you’re new, please feel free to explore our community channels and guidelines and share a brief additional introduction here. Welcome 🎉

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Deborah Devedjian

Nadia, thanks for doing all this! Could you please send us a list of all the community channels, or a central hub from which we can connect to them?

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Nadia Eldeib

Yes! You should be able to see and join channels via the WhatsApp community portal functionality. I think it works best if you are using the app versus web. You can also find an overview on channels and their purposes here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IvWhYTdFqOzMYg6ySXx7pmMOfwhDwDHfXHdDkZRbkyE/edit?usp=drivesdk We’re always looking for more folks to volunteer to help moderate and manage the community as well so if channel organization is something you are passionate about improving, please reach out.

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Deborah Devedjian

Dynamite, Nadia! And many thanks!

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Stefan Pagacik

happy to do it!

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Lance P

If folks are at Geneva Digital Week and AI4Good HMU in the event app or here. https://www.itu.int/en/about/Pages/Geneva-Digital-Week.aspx

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Who are you in this group?