Lena Ashooh

Biography

Lena completed her undergraduate degree at Harvard University. She studies legal philosophy. Her honors thesis was on social group construction and the meaning of the term "human." Lena has worked at the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Congress, the Justice Defense Fund, and the Center on Race, Poverty, and the Environment. She was Dr. Irene Pepperberg's lab manager while she was at Harvard. For a summer, she studied a colony of rhesus macaque monkeys off the coast of Puerto Rico. At Oxford, she will do the BPhil in Philosophy.