Our Staff
Departmental Leadership
Julie Reuben
Faculty Director, Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship
Julie Reuben is a historian interested in the intersection between American thought and culture and educational institutions and practice. Her book, Making of the Modern University (1996), examines the relation between changing conceptions of knowledge...
Travis Lovett
Assistant Dean, Civic Engagement and Service
Travis Lovett serves as the Assistant Dean of Civic Engagement and Service at Harvard College. Through his work, Travis is responsible for communications, partnership building, and mobilizing key stakeholders to broaden and deepen Harvard’s community...
Our Staff
Abrianna ‘Aby’ Hansell
aby@pbha.orgNon-Profit Management Fellow
Abrianna (she/her) is PBHA's first-year Non-Profit Management Support Fellow supporting Abrianna is a 2023 graduate of Barry University with a B.S.B.A. in Management. As an undergraduate, she was a first-generation, low-income student and a two-year Chan...
Bryan Zuluaga
bryan@pbha.orgDirector of Programs, Phillips Brooks House Association
As a Director of Programs at PBHA, Bryan supports primarily after school, mentoring and summer programs for middle and high school students across Cambridge, the Recent Immigrant Term-time Enrichment program in Boston (RITE) and the Y2Y Homeless Shelter...
Caitlin Schmid
caitlinschmid@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Director of Engaged Scholarship, Mindich Program
Caitlin Schmid is the Assistant Director of Engaged Scholarship for the Mindich Program. Caitlin supports curricular and co-curricular opportunities for community-engaged teaching, learning, and student research, and works closely with the Mindich Student...
Emily Maguire
emily_maguire@fas.harvard.eduDirector of Pathways to Practice
Emily Maguire serves as the Director of the Pathways to Practice program, overseeing summer and winter fellowship programs and supporting post-graduate opportunities in public service. Prior to joining the Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship...
Flavia C. Peréa
flaviaperea@fas.harvard.eduDirector, Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship
Flavia is the founding Director of the Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship, and a Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard College. As Director she works across the Harvard community to stimulate community-collaborative curricular innovations and develop...
Juliet Richardson
julietrichardson@fas.harvard.eduFinancial Administrator
Juliet is an experienced Financial Administrator and is responsible for managing the finance department for the Phillips Brooks House Association. With a background in nursing, Juliet was employed by the Star Markets Company in their HR department. She...
Kate Johnsen
kate@pbha.orgDeputy Director, PBHA
Kate Johnsen began working with the greater Boston community as an undergraduate at Phillips Brooks House Association in 1998. Upon graduation, Kate received a Stride Rite Post-Graduate Fellowship to open a youth center in Mary Ellen McCormack Housing...
Kathleen Comber
kcomber@fas.harvard.eduDepartment Administrator
Kathleen is the Department Administrator at Phillips Brooks House of Harvard College. Prior to PBH, Kathleen worked as an Executive Assistant at The Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health and Ambulatory Services Administrator at Boston Children's...
Kerry McGowan
kerry@pbha.orgDirector of Programs, PBHA
While attending Boston College, Kerry McGowan was involved in the PULSE program, a service learning program, volunteering at a placement where he tutored teens at a group home and served on the PULSE council. Kerry joined the Peace Corps after college...
Kit Carroll
kit@pbha.orgDirector of Programs
As Director of Programs, Kit supports PBHA's Shelters (Y2Y and Harvard Square Homeless Shelter), as well as legal and advocacy programs. She was a PBHA volunteer herself as a college student, as well as a Summer Director of Programs for a few years...
Lauren Crispi
Manager, Student Development and Evaluation
As Manager of Student Development and Evaluation, Lauren engages directly with undergraduate students who work across 80+ public service outreach programs across Boston and Cambridge. She oversees a variety of training and reflection opportunities run...
Laurie Chroney
laurie@pbha.orgDirector of Programs, PBHA
Laurie supports all of PBHA’s afterschool programming and works closely with the Afterschool Programming Group Officer. She also coaches students working in Boston’s Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods.
Louise Wills
louise@pbha.orgSenior Development Coordinator, PBHA
A proud graduate of Wellesley College, Louise went on to earn an A.M. and a Ph.D. in Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She worked for four years at a small nonprofit promoting conservation and indigenous rights in Latin America...
Lucy Wickings
lucy@pbha.orgProgram Support Fellow
Lucy (she/her) is PBHA's first Program Support Fellow supporting cross-program administrative initiatives. Lucy coordinates and supports programming and events, program-related communication and student volunteer recruitment, student engagement through...
Maria Dominguez Gray
maria@pbha.orgClass of 1955 Executive Director, PBHA
As the PBHA Executive Director, Maria builds and maintains the infrastructure to sustain the organization. By working with the student leaders and members of the Board of Trustees, the Executive Director leads in shaping and carrying out the vision and...
Michaela Rheault
Financial Team
Michaela Rheault (she/her) is the first Finance Assistant supporting Phillips Brooks House in the Finance Department alongside Juliet Collins, Tony Sun, and Tonni Allen. Michaela is a finance professional with an MSF and MBA from UMass Lowell. She has...
Samantha Levin
samantha_levin@fas.harvard.eduAssistant Director, Nonprofit Pathways
Sam Levin serves as the Assistant Director of Nonprofit Pathways at Harvard College’s Center for Public Service and Engaged Scholarship (CPSES), where she leads a portfolio of public service internship and fellowship programs. With ten years of experience...
Thomas Bary
thomas_bary@fas.harvard.eduAdministrative Coordinator
Thomas is the Administrator Coordinator at Phillips Brooks House of Harvard College and supports Julie Reuben and Travis Lovett. Thomas has over 12 years working in higher education in multi-media and senior administration work, and enjoys being creative...
Tonni Allen
amallen@fas.harvard.eduFinance Associate
As Financial Associate, Tonni works to manage the department's finances. She also supports students in the areas of payroll and budgeting.
Varsha Ghosh
vghosh@fas.harvard.eduDirector, Student Engagement and Leadership
Director, First Year Urban Program, Harvard College
Varsha Ghosh serves as Director of Student Engagement and Leadership, as well as the First Year Urban Program (FUP), a pre-orientation program for first year students. She acts as a key advisor over 40 public service programs in areas of risk manageent...
