Lena Ashooh

Biography

Lena received her B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard College. She was Phi Beta Kappa and awarded the Sophia Freund Prize. She did a self-designed degree under the supervision of Cass Sunstein. As a part of the major, she completed tutorials with faculty in the philosophy, biology, government, and history departments. While at Harvard, she was the Assistant Lab Manager of Irene Pepperberg’s parrot cognition laboratory, a Land Law Student Trainee in the U.S. Pathways Program for the U.S. Department of the Interior, and an Undergraduate Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She completed internships at the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment, as a Liman Fellow, 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. Her senior thesis was awarded the Hoopes Prize. She will do the B.Phil. in Philosophy at Oxford.