Meet Your GUE Colleagues: Spring 2026

Staff Associate
OACES

My role: I am the Momentum lead and Interphase support.
Years at MIT: 1.5
Favorite hobbies or DIY projects: Judo.
Last great book you read: Kindred by Octavia Butler.
Favorite movie: Princess Mononoke.
Best Halloween costume you’ve ever had: Orange crayon from the Sausage Universe (Everything, Everywhere, All at Once).
Proudest moment in your life: Being the first in my family to graduate from a 4-year college.
On the weekends, I love to: Visit bookstores and coffee shops.

Director of Graduate Fellowships
Office of Graduate Education

My role: I oversee the administration of external and Institute-wide internal fellowships.
Years at MIT: 9 (5.5 at Sloan, 3.5 in OGE)
Music or musicians/bands/groups you love: It changes a lot, but currently, Noah Kahan, Jonah Kagen, Josiah and the Bonnevilles, Cameron Whitcomb, and The Coronas are in the mix.
Favorite sports team(s): New England Patriots, Boston Celtics, Notre Dame Football.
Dream vacation spot: Any tropical destination where the weather is great and I can see my toes when I am in the ocean.
Proudest moment in your life: My daughter being born.
What was your first job? Pushing shopping carts at Walmart.
On the weekends, I love to: Spend time with my wife, daughter, family, and friends.
Guilty pleasure: Candy. I am like a child. If there is candy in front of me, I will eat it until I get a stomach ache!

Director of Communications and Special Projects
MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services

My role: I judge teenagers for a living, yap at them online and in print, manage a small but mighty menagerie of communicators, and help Stu (the Dean) do stuff he needs done.
Years at MIT: 16
Favorite hobbies or DIY projects: Growing tropical plants at unusual latitudes.
Last great book you read: I am currently leading an informal semester-long reading group on Infinite Jest for MIT students + young alumni, the sixth time I have done so.
Favorite food or cuisine: I run a website using crisis crowdmapping software deployed by NGOs in conflict zones to locate the world’s great hamburgers.
Proudest moment in your life: Marrying my BEAUTIFUL WIFE Stephanie Tran, formerly of DSL comms and now at Lincoln Lab comms, at the MIT Museum last October; we met in a Commencement planning meeting while I was being upbraided (appropriately) by Elizabeth Young and she (Steph) took pity on me.
What was your first job? In high school I did the usual mix of landscaping, line cook, etc, but my first job out of UMass was as a counselor at MIT Admissions, and I have simply never left.

Senior Program Coordinator
Office of Experiential Learning

My role: I collaborate with awesome staff and students from experiential learning programs and beyond to help students navigate and make the most of their experiential learning opportunities.
Years at MIT: 7.5 (+ 4 as a student)
Favorite hobbies or DIY projects: My lifelong goal is to try every craft (next up is either basket-weaving or shoe-making), but my favorite is definitely sewing. I make most of my clothes (coats and jeans are especially fun and challenging) and also dabble in quilting.
Last great book you read: Project Hail Mary.
Favorite movie: The Princess Bride.
Music or musicians/bands/groups you love: Caroline Rose, The Shins, Arctic Monkeys, Haley Heynderickx.
Famous person (living or dead) you’d love to meet, and why: Prof. Margaret MacVicar, to thank her for all she did for MIT education and get her perspective on how MIT has evolved.
Favorite dessert or treats: Ice cream (fresh mint at J.P. Licks or Tosci’s when it’s in season, or coffee oreo the rest of the year).
Guilty pleasure: getting Union Square Donuts immediately after dentist appointments.