This is part three of the four part portrait series showcasing the experiences of Black students on Harvard's campus. Today, meet 9 more Black Harvard students who can do everything from performing in the Super Bowl to playing piano while upside down. These students are bringing light, intelligence, and talent to Harvard's campus everyday!

Black Harvard students are athletes, leaders, artists, and we contain multitudes.

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Chibuike Ukakwe '23

• Concentration: Biomedical Engineering
• Campus activities: The Crimson Arts Board, Collegium Musicum, Chamber Music, E-Textile Engineering and Wearables Research at SEAS, Piano Society
• Fun Fact: I've never had coffee before
• Favorite Class at Harvard: Product & Experience Design for Desirability
• Favorite Place on Campus: Loeb Spalding Room in the Music Library

 

Kaelin Ray '22

• Concentration: Neuroscience
• Campus activities: Club Volleyball, Eleganza, Science Club for Girls, Adams House Committee
• Fun Fact: I can play the piano upside down
• Favorite Class at Harvard: PSY1201: Your Brain on Drugs
• Favorite Place on Campus: Adams House Dining Hall

 

Kareem King '23

• Concentration: History of Science
• Campus activities: Harvard Undergraduate Black Health Advocates, The Harvard Foundation, We Got Us, Global Health Research
• Fun Fact: I know pickup lines in Japanese
• Favorite Class at Harvard: ME 727: Social Change, Injury Prevention, and the Practice of Medicine
• Favorite Place on Campus: Smith Campus Center

 

Artha Jonassaint '24

 

• Concentration: Government and Global Health
• Campus activities: Association of Black Harvard Women, Crimson Sports, Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program
• Fun Fact: I’ve performed in a Super Bowl stadium
• Favorite Class at Harvard: GHHP 30: Global Oral Health - Healthy Teeth, Healthy Societies
• Favorite Place on Campus: Tatte

 

Mayi Hughes '23

• Concentration: Sociology
• Campus activities: Varsity Track and Field, The Harvard Independent
• Fun Fact: One of my legs is longer than the other
• Favorite Class at Harvard: Anything taught by Danilo Mandić
• Favorite Place on Campus: The Charles River

 

Rich Jenkins '22

• Concentration: Sociology
• Campus activities: WHRB Harvard Radio Station, Scholars of Finance
• Fun Fact: I text in my sleep sometimes
• Favorite Class at Harvard: Anything taught by Rachel Meyer
• Favorite Place on Campus: The Carpenter Center

 

Tijesunimi Borode '24

• Concentration: Neuroscience
• Campus activities: Global Alliance for Medical Innovation, Harvard Model Congress, Nigerian Students Association, Harvard Student Agencies
• Fun Fact: I learned how to swim on WikiHow while in my bed
• Favorite Place on Campus: The Science and Engineering Building

 

Kiersten Hash '25

• Concentration: Government
• Campus activities: Harvard Votes Challenge Advocacy Director, The Harvard Prison Divestment Campaign
• Fun Fact: I was a dancer and cheerleader in high school
• Favorite Class at Harvard: GOV1313: Race, Film, and American Politics
• Favorite Place on Campus: 10th Floor of the Smith Campus Center

 

Kidist Alemu '23

• Concentration: Computer Science
• Campus activities: Harvard African Students Association, Harvard Eritrean and Ethiopian Students Association, Association of Black Harvard Women, Women in Computer Science
• Fun Fact: My favorite food is Kocho
• Favorite Class at Harvard: MIT 6.840
• Favorite Place on Campus: The Science and Engineering Building