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Haverford College Visual Cultural, Arts, and Media Center
370 West Lancaster Avenue
Haverford, Pennsylvania, 19041
United States

Daniel Bhatti

Daniel Bhatti is a rising senior at Haverford College majoring in Math and Statistics. He found his spark after seeing TED talks from planner Jeff Speck and reading many plans and books such as Urban Sprawl and Public Health. Today, Daniel aspires to make America more walkable.

Emi Krishnamurthy

I'm a musician, gardener, and aspiring computational neuroscientist. I'm a research assistant at Yale school of medicine, molecular psychiatry, currently working on VR applications to study perceptual decisionmaking and fear assessment in mice and the underlying bases for disorders like ptsd, which involve errors in fear assessment. i'm generally very interested in figuring out the basic neural computations that give rise to complex thought and emotion; but i am still discovering the scientific path I'd like to pursue.

Lydia Guertin

Lydia Guertin was admitted as the youngest member of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) in 2022, where she works with the Noise Budget Working Group to mitigate interfering signals in pulsar timing array datasets that are then used as a “detector” for gravitational waves. She graduated with High Honors from Haverford College in 2024 with dual B.Sc. degrees in Physics and Astronomy, and now works with the Academia Sinica Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics in Taiwan. Along with her personal projects, Lydia is involved with several education and public outreach programs, including as a 2024 NASA Partner Eclipse Ambassador, and is a lifetime fellow of the American Junior Academy of Science. On her own time, Lydia is a distance runner and thru-hiker, seeking out opportunities to enjoy the night sky away from the lens of a telescope.

Nicole Li

Nicole studies cultural variations in the body-emotion link with Dr. Yulia Chentsova-Dutton at Georgetown University and Dr Shu-wen Wang at Haverford College. She also appreciates the help of Dr. Xianmin Gong at the Chinese University of Hong Kong for the recruitment of participants. She continues her research interest in culture as a lab manager at the ESP Lab and Intergroup Relations lab at the University of Michigan.

Sachio Takashima

Sachio left school in fifth grade, and is self-taught from that point on. He's worked as a janitor/mover his entire adult life, and has taught himself literature and philosophy. Since 2011, he started to blend his activism with learning social geography, became close with a group of geography graduate students at Temple University, and presented at a conference on “self-taught working class geographers." He's worked on building up regional geographies of each place he has lived and worked. He's worked in Haverford College Housekeeping since 2021, and a regional geography of Haverford is in the works. In March of 2023, he was awarded a research fellowship by Haverford College's Institutional Diversity, Equity, and Access office to support his investigation into Servants’ Dormitory, now the Gest Center. He lives in Upper Darby with his beloved family, Danielle, and their five-year-old son Dion.

William Harris

William graduated from Haverford College in May 2024 with a B.A. in History, having minored in Spanish and the History of Art. His senior thesis, “Dare to Look: Manuel Godoy’s Secret Cabinet and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Spain,” analyzed the late Inquisition’s censorship of art and literature and won the History Department Senior Thesis Prize and the Libraries Research Award. William interned at the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) and the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC) before accepting a full-time position at FIRE after graduation. William is an alumnus of the United States Senate Youth Program and Middlebury Language Schools. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx Senior Thesis: https://scholarship.tricolib.brynmawr.edu/items/52ce545d-acd2-4e3c-b39d-48360eeb629c