Meet the HSSP Teaching Fellows 2023!

From June 29 until July 14, 2023, four Harvard College students will join the CHS High School Summer Program (HSSP) as teaching fellows (TFs). HSSP is organized by CHS Greece in cooperation with Harvard’s Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and with the support of Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. The TFs along with the HSSP faculty members plan, coordinate, and teach the college-level seminars. Their teaching internship has 2 phases:

• spring preparation in Cambridge, MA,
• and then the summer seminar in Nafplio.

Program faculty members and managers, along with the TFs and 22 senior high school students from Greece participate in daily sessions, which are taking place at the Center’s premises (morning sessions) and the 1st Senior High School of Nafplio. The teaching fellows were selected from a list of the University's student applicants to the Teaching Internship Program.

Caroline Gage

Caroline Gage is a rising junior concentrating in Social Studies focusing on democracy and its challenges in the 21st century. Caroline is interested in the intersections between quantitative methods with the humanities. Outside the classroom, she enjoys writing for the Harvard Crim-son's Sports and Arts sections. Caroline also works at Harvard's Learning Lab, where she cre-ates multimedia projects for professors and students that range from 3D models to podcasts. In her free time, Caroline is an avid museum-goer and tennis player.

Chloe Koulefianou

Chloe Koulefianou is a senior at Harvard, originally from northern Virginia. She studies Social Studies and African Studies, with a citation in French and a focus on West African Society and diaspora. She is interested in surveillance, violence, and culture, and is currently writing a thesis about the ways in which domestic and international state power in post-colonial Togo impacts identity and kinship bonds. Chloe enjoys art in all forms, and is an active member of Harvard Radio Broadcasting, where she spins blues, jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music. Outside of school, her passions include reading, crocheting, yoga, and Foucault.

Kari Traylor

Kari Traylor is a senior at Harvard studying Social Studies with a secondary in Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights. Within Social Studies, her studies focus on the effects of environmental racism in Black communities, and her thesis examines the role water plays as a site of both empowerment and violence for Black Americans in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. At school, she directs the Small Claims Advisory service to provide legal information to underprivileged people in the Boston area, organizes community events for her home at Quincy House, and mentors first-year students as a Peer Advising Fellow. Originally from Texas, Kari enjoys cooking vegan food, making pottery, playing the ukulele, and attempting to forage local edible plants. So far, she has been successful.

Katherine Zhu

Katherine Zhu graduated from Harvard College in 2023 and studied Social Studies and Music. A native of San Diego, California, she focused on the intersection between media, public opinion, and criminal justice reform and wrote a senior thesis on police reform and mental health. Katherine is a violinist of 17 years and also led multiple student groups at Harvard, including the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Harvard Model United Nations, Harvard World Model United Nations, Datamatch (a collegiate matchmaking application) and Poker Club. She is currently working as a program manager for a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. Outside of work, Katherine enjoys trying new restaurants, binging movies and TV shows, reading, attending concerts, and figuring out logic games and escape rooms.