Lena Ashooh

Election Year: 2025

Election Constituency: United States of America

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: Vermont & Somerville 2025

Lena Ashooh

Biography

Lena is a graduate of Harvard College. She did an interdisciplinary degree, supervised by Cass Sunstein. While at Harvard, she worked as a research assistant and Assistant Lab Manager of Irene Pepperberg’s parrot cognition research laboratory. She was also a Land Law Student Trainee in the U.S. Pathways Program for the U.S. Department of the Interior. Lena was an Undergraduate Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. Lena has completed internships at the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment and the U.S. Congress. She was previously a research assistant for Rebecca Kleinberger; the Justice Defense Fund; on Cayo Santiago, at the Caribbean Primate Research Center; and for Sophie Barton on the Canine Brains Project, directed by Erin Hecht.

She will do the B.Phil. in Philosophy at Oxford.