Anjali is a third year PhD student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Her research focuses on developing noninvasive wearable sensors for understanding and monitoring human motion patterns in everyday settings. Before coming to Yale, she completed her B.S. in biomedical engineering with a minor in materials science and engineering at Boston University. Anjali has experience writing scientific manuscripts and fellowship applications and is a NSF GRFP fellow.  She looks forward to helping students at any stage in their academic writing.

Zander is a fourth year student in the History Department. His dissertation focuses on political thought, law, empire, and reception of the classics in early modern Europe. He holds a BA in Religious Studies and Economics from Clemson University as well as a MAR in History of Christianity from Yale Divinity School. What he enjoys most about history and academic writing is the challenge of transforming a chaotic mess of research into a compelling story. He is excited to work with students on an article draft, term paper, prospectus, or dissertation in any area of the humanities.

Kelsie is a 5th year PhD Candidate in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale School of Public Health. Her research focuses on Legionnaires’ disease and environmental risk factors related to trends in infectious disease. She was previously a co-editor in chief of Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine where she has also worked as their Podcast Coordinator. She has experience editing manuscripts that include statistical methods, large datasets, and complex study designs to improve clarity. She is excited to return for a second year as a GWL Fellow.

Vlad Chituc is a 6th year PhD student in Social Psychology studying psychological measurement and moral judgment. He grew up in a small town in rural, upstate New York before graduating from Yale in 2012, where he learned how to become a better writer and how better writing could be taught. He spent the next five years at Duke University in Durham, NC, where he studied behavioral economics and dishonesty while also pursuing freelance nonfiction writing. He wrote pieces about research in the social sciences for outlets like The New York Times, The New Republic, New Scientist, and The Daily Beast.

Daisy Duan is a 4th year Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry PhD student in the Koleske Lab. It was not until attending high school and taking physical sciences classes Daisy was fascinated with how biology and physics concepts could be combined to help us understand biological phenomena. Upon graduating from Johns Hopkins with degrees in Biophysics and Applied Math & Stats, she became the first in her family to not only finish high school but college. Now at Yale, Daisy is currently focused on elucidating the molecular mechanisms by which nonreceptor tyrosine kinase Abl2 impacts microtubule dynamics in vitro and in cells. Outside of the lab, Daisy loves to explore new cities, discover new music, and cook with friends in her spare time.

Breeanna is a fourth-year doctoral student in the History of Science and Medicine Program. Prior to Yale, she received her A.B. in History and African and African American Studies from Harvard College. She also earned her teacher licensure from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2015. Her doctoral research emphasizes the role of ancestral spirits in histories of regional pharmacopeia and bioprospecting by recognizing them as active and independent political agents in the cross-cultural negotiations of health, healing, and illness in the Western Indian Ocean. Her methodologies include ethnography, archival research, oral history, and ethnobotany, and she works across the disciplines of anthropology, history, and science and technology studies. She is eager to work with writers at all stages in their academic writing, with a special interest in grant and fellowship applications.

Randy Hamchand is a 5th year Ph. D. student in the Chemistry Department. His research focuses on the biochemical elucidation of novel small-molecule signals implicated in human-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions. He attended the University of Connecticut for his undergraduate and masters studies where he obtained an M.S. in Chemistry and a B.S in Biological Sciences. Randy has several years of tutoring experience and enjoys learning about fields outside of his own.

Anna is a seventh-year Ph.D. candidate in the English department. Her research focuses on representations of climate change and environmental crisis in twentieth-century American literature, with a particular interest in questions about memory, place, colonialism, and affect. Prior to graduate school, she studied painting and drawing, and she is passionate about visual arts, visual culture, and interdisciplinary collaborations. At Yale, Anna has taught courses in academic and creative nonfiction writing, and she has served as the co-chief editor of Palimpsest: Yale Graduate Literary and Arts Magazine. She looks forward to supporting graduate students with presentation skills and a range of writing projects at any stage of the process.

Brianna is a 4th year Nursing PhD candidate and a Psychiatric-Mental Health Clinical Nurse Specialist. Her research and clinical practice focus on psychosocial trauma and resilience in young people who are marginalized. For her dissertation work, she is conducting a mixed methods study exploring the intersection of structural violence, mental health, and positive adaptation experienced by emerging adults who have aged out of foster care.  She holds BScN and MScN degrees from Western University in Canada, where she first developed a passion for youth-engaged, trauma-informed, and equity-oriented care.  Brianna particularly enjoys critical writing and public speaking, but is looking forward to supporting students from all disciplines with varying interests and levels of experience.

Elizabeth Keto is a third-year PhD student in the History of Art. Her research focuses on American art, and her interests include landscape, ecology, and empire in the nineteenth-century United States. Elizabeth graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College (2018) with a degree in History of Art and Architecture. She was the recipient of a 2018 Marshall Scholarship, and she holds master’s degrees in the history of art and in curating from The Courtauld Institute of Art in London. She looks forward to working with students on all types of writing projects in the humanities.

Eva is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in History. Her research explores colonial British America and the wider early modern Atlantic World, with a focus on political economy. She is also interested in the integration of network analysis, spatial analysis, and other digital methodologies in humanities projects. Eva received her B.A. in History from Yale College in 2017. Before returning to New Haven for graduate studies, she worked as an education policy researcher and freelance editor. She looks forward to supporting humanities and social science students at any stage in the writing process. 

Jacqueline is a sixth-year Ph.D. student in Latin American History. Her research focuses on Belize in the eighteenth century. Jacqueline received a B.A. from the Gallatin School at New York University and an M.A./M.Sc. in International/World History from Columbia University and the London School of Economics. She also has professional experience as a museum educator and a freelance editor. She especially enjoys supporting writers with the brainstorming stages of their work and offering strategies for improving writers’ relationships with their work.

Anne is a doctoral candidate studying Political Theory. Her research examines the political, social, and ethical dimensions of 20th century U.S. educational planning, policy, and statecraft. Prior to graduate school, Anne worked as an education policy researcher and consultant at the American Institutes for Research. She holds an M.Phil. in Political Thought and Intellectual History from the University of Cambridge, and a B.A. in Philosophy from the Gallatin School at NYU. Anne looks forward to helping graduate students articulate their ideas through clear and engaging writing.

Jacob Morrow-Spitzer is a fourth-year PhD candidate in the Department of History, and is also an affiliate of the Yale Judaic Studies Program. His research focuses on the intersection between modern Jewish history, American race, and political history. He received his B.A. in History and Jewish Studies from Tulane University, and worked as a peer tutor at the Tulane Academic Success Center throughout his undergraduate years. Before starting at Yale, he worked in the non-profit and public-facing research world. Jacob has experience editing personal statements, journal articles, conference talks, fellowship applications, book reviews, public-facing scholarship, encyclopedia entries, and many, many course papers.

Libby O’Neil is a 3rd year PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine (HSHM). Her research focuses on the history of systems thinking and cybernetics in the behavioral sciences in the 20th century. Before coming to Yale, she received a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Kansas, and an MA in Liberal Studies from Reed College in 2019. Libby has experience writing in a variety of academic and professional settings, and enjoys helping students communicate their ideas to new audiences.

Yanixa is a 5th year PhD student in Genetics and a recipient of a NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA F31 pre-doctoral fellowship. Her thesis work focuses on dissecting molecular and phenotypical differences of KRAS variants in cancer. Yanixa obtained her BS in Biology with an emphasis in Genetics and Biomedicine from the University of Puerto Rico in Aguadilla. Her passion for providing equal access to health care and education, outreach and mentoring has driven her involvement with student-led initiatives focused on increasing diversity and inclusion in STEM fields. As a GWL Fellow, she looks forward to helping fellow graduate students navigate the fellowship application process.

Madeline “Gracie” Reinecke is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Psychology Department, where she studies moral cognition (e.g., how children and adults evaluate moral standing). Before coming to Yale, Gracie earned her BSc in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She’s excited to help others – especially within the social sciences – develop their writing, data visualization, and presentation skills.

Talia is a third-year JD student with research interests in constitutional history, critical theory, and federal Indian law. They work as a student attorney in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and have served as an Articles Editor on the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. Talia also maintains an interdisciplinary art practice and worked as a dance artist in Melbourne, Australia before coming to Yale. They hold an A.B. in Latin American History and Literature from Harvard, with a secondary in African American Studies. As a Graduate Writing Lab Fellow, they look forward to working with law students as well as graduate students in the humanities and social sciences from across the university.

Zili Shen is a fourth year Ph.D. student in Astronomy. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BSA in physics and astronomy and a certificate in the philosophy of science. Her research focuses on faint and diffuse galaxies. She has multiple first-author peer-reviewed scientific articles and has won prizes for conference talks and presentations. Zili is an author for the astronomy blog Astrobites, and she is a speaker for Astronomy on Tap. She looks forward to working with students on scientific writing.

Jennifer Strtak is a PhD candidate in the Department of History and Program in Early Modern Studies. Her research engages the carriage as an investigative tool to explore how the development of transportation reconfigured built environments, daily life, and movement regulation in Paris between 1600-1800. Her research has been generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada as well as the Fox International Fellowship Program.
 
Prior to coming to Yale, Strtak obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a Master of Philosophy from Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge. In 2021 she was the co-recipient of the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning’s Teaching Innovation Project (TIP) grant for her contribution in the creation of a Certificate Program in Early Modern Studies for Yale College, which promotes the practical application of humanistic study to everyday life.
 
She looks forward to working with graduate students and helping them to achieve success in their written work, oral presentations, and teaching programs.

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.