Social Impact Internships: Jade Hawkesworth (’25)
Bridging the Digital Divide: Empowering Foster Youth Through TechnologyMy name is Jade Hawkesworth, and I’m a senior at MIT majoring in Finance with a strong interest in law. Originally from…
Raechel Walker’s SM ‘23 Presidential Fellowship Featured in MIT Spectrum!
Raechel Walker SM ‘23 is a team lead for IDEAS team Liberatory Computing. In fields as varied as computer architecture, behavioral economics, data activism, and planetary science, MIT Presidential Fellowship recipients and…Nutur and Dheera Ananthakrishnan ’90, MBA ’23 Awarded MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovation Prizes!
Nurtur was a 2023 IDEAS team. Nurtur is an AI-powered postpartum depression prediction tool that utilizes telehealth to support parents through pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. Dheera Ananthakrishnan, a Friend of the…Abbie Schipper, IDEAS alum and cofounder of LifeSaveHer, named a 2025 Gates Cambridge Scholar!
Abbie Schipper cofounded LifeSaveHer, a CPR training device to improve cardiac arrest survival rates for women. LifeSaveHer was the 2023 MIT PKG IDEAS Innovation Challenge $20,000 grantee. You can read…PKG Student Titus Roesler (’25) Featured in MIT News!
During Summer 2023, Titus Roesler ‘25 was a Climate Action Plan Intern. Titus helped to organize the Bennett College-led Environmental Justice Coalition and its inaugural conference in the fall of 2022, set up a…
IAP Climate: Chloe Zhang (’28)
During my time working with the City of Cambridge on the Heat Task Force project, I was a part of a team dedicated to creating an illustrative guide to educate…IAP Climate: Sonia Seliger (’26)
This IAP, I worked with the MIT Office of Sustainability through the PKG Center IAP Climate program. Our team’s goal was to create a dashboard that visually presents data on…
Wilhem Hector (’25) Named 2025 Rhodes Scholar!
Wilhem Hector has held multiple PKG Fellowships to support his nonprofit, the Hector Foundation. He also received a Davis Project for Peace Award and a PKG Public Service Award. You can read more about…Social Impact Internships: Susan Hong (’27)
My name is Susan, and I’m a rising sophomore majoring in 6-9! I’m really interested in the intersection between technology and the human experience. This summer, I worked at Justice…