2020 Harvard
Board Elections

You may vote through 5:00 p.m. (ET) on August 18, 2020. You may vote online or by paper ballot. Online voting instructions can be found on your paper ballot and in Harvard 2020 elections emails.

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Harvard Board of Overseers
HAA Board of Directors

Harvard Board of Overseers Candidates

The HAA Nominating Committee has proposed the following Overseer candidates for the 2020 election
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Diego A. Rodriguez

MBA ’01 with distinction

BA & BS ’93 with honors, Stanford University; Executive vice president, chief product and design officer, Intuit Inc.

Palo Alto, California

David H. Eun

AB ’89 magna cum laude, JD ’93

Chief innovation officer, Samsung Electronics, and president, Samsung NEXT

New York, New York

Katherine Collins

MTS ’11

BA ’90 cum laude, Wellesley College; Head of sustainable investing, portfolio manager of the Putnam Sustainable Future Fund and the Putnam Sustainable Leaders Fund, Putnam Investments

Boston, Massachusetts

Raphael William Bostic

AB ’87 magna cum laude

PhD ’95, Stanford University; President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Decatur, Georgia

Susan Morris Novick

AB ’85 magna cum laude

Senior vice president, Merrill; freelance journalist, The New York Times

Old Westbury, New York

Tracy K. Smith

AB ’94 cum laude

MFA ’97, Columbia University; Berlind Professor of the Humanities, Chair of the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University; 22nd poet laureate of the United States

Princeton, New Jersey

Miki Uchida Tsusaka

AB ’84 magna cum laude, MBA ’88

Managing director and senior partner, Boston Consulting Group

Tokyo, Japan

Ryan Wise

EdLD ’13

BA ’98 summa cum laude, Creighton University, MPA ’08, University of Nebraska Omaha; Director, Iowa Department of Education; dean-designate, Drake University School of Education

Des Moines, Iowa

The following candidates for Overseer were nominated by petition
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Margaret "Midge" Purce

AB ’17

Professional soccer player, Sky Blue FC and U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team

Silver Spring, Maryland

Jayson Toweh

SM ’19

BS ’17 with honors, University of Michigan; Program analyst, Environmental Protection Agency

Atlanta, Georgia

Lisa Bi Huang

MPA ’19

BA ’13, Tsinghua University, MBA ’18, University of Pennsylvania; Chief financial officer and vice president of growth, OZÉ

San Francisco, California

John Beatty

AB ’11, cum laude

MBA ’18, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Senior product manager, Amazon.com, Inc.

Seattle, Washington

Thea Sebastian

AB ’08, JD ’16

MSc ’11, University of Oxford, EdM ’13, Hunter College; Policy counsel, Civil Rights Corps

Washington D.C.

Elected Director of the HAA Candidates

The HAA Nominating Committee has proposed the following HAA elected director candidates for the 2020 election
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Kelsey Trey Leonard

AB ’10

MSc ’11, University of Oxford, JD ’15, Duquesne University, PhD ’19, McMaster University, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University

Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Joyce Y. Zhang

AB ’09

MPA ’15, Princeton University, MBA ’15, Stanford University; CEO, Alariss Global

San Francisco, California

Mallika J. Marshall

AB ’92 cum laude

MD ’96, UCSF School of Medicine; Medical reporter, CBS Boston; physician, Massachusetts General Hospital

Weston, Massachusetts

Vanessa Zoltan

MDiv ’15

BA ’04, Washington University, MS ’09, University of Pennsylvania; Co-founder and CEO, Not Sorry Productions

Medford, Massachusetts

David R. Scherer

AB ’93 cum laude

MBA ’14, University of Chicago; CEO and principal, Origin Investments; co-founder, One Million Degrees

Chicago, Illinois

Santiago Creuheras

ALM ’00, ALM ’01

BS ’97 summa cum laude, Universidad de las Américas-Puebla, MSt ’14 with distinction, University of Cambridge; Senior consultant on sustainable infrastructure and energy, Inter-American Development Bank

Mexico City, Mexico