Larissa Tsukamoto
Chihiro Larissa Tsukamoto is a 6th year PhD candidate writing their dissertation on how music was used for healing during the Ancient Greek, Byzantine, Abbasid, and Mamluk periods. At Yale, Larissa has been a Health & Wellness Fellow at the McDougal Center, a board member of the Good Life Center, a founding member of the Yale Health Student Advisory Council, and a volunteer therapeutic musician at Yale-New Haven Hospital. Prior to coming to Yale, Larissa received a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University and an M.A. in Medieval Icelandic Studies from the University of Iceland. Outside of their PhD work, Larissa is a polyglot who loves learning languages and is an actively performing classical musician. Larissa has over a decade of experience being a professional editor and would be thrilled to speak to writers about productivity tips, overcoming writer’s block, and developing one’s own personal writing style.