Cambridge, MA

Allison is a law student at Harvard Law School and a resident tutor in Winthrop House.  Prior to law school, Allison spent a year working in college ministry with students around Boston.  While in college, Allison was involved in women's leadership groups, the Harvard CIVICS program and The Harvard Crimson.  She recently married an MIT engineer and now enjoys many long conversations about fluid dynamics in addition to biking, exploring education policy, baking, and working as a research assistant at the law school. 

Megan Barragry - Development Coordinator

Madison, WI

WLC: 2005

Megan is a project manager at Epic, a software company that develops an electronic health record system, and lives in Madison, Wisconsin. Immediately after graudation, Megan worked for the Retirement Services Roundtable, a research and best practices consulting group within the Corporate Executive Board, based in Washington DC. Although helping retirement services providers improve customer services and maximizing efficiencies was challenging and engaging, Megan also spent much of her time working with grassroots educational groups in DC trying to improve public education. In her free time, Megan enjoys exploring new restaurants and locales, reading novels, and staying in touch with friends. 

Cambridge, MA

WLC: 1989

Born in Michigan to Taiwanese parents, Austin grew up in Louisiana attending public and parochial schools. After graduating from Dunster House, he worked as a live-in cook, photographer, copywriter, admissions interviewer, caterer, and temp for five years before settling into his first career in technology at such companies as VideoGuide, Firefly Network, Internet Securities, MathWorks, D.E. Shaw, Yahoo!, Millennium Pharmaceuticals, and Harvard.  In 2005, Austin decided to pursue a MSW at Simmons College in order to integrate his interests in mental health, social justice, and feminist activism.  He has served on the boards of Green Street Studios, Rebecca Stenn Company, the Massachusetts NOW Foundation, and the national board of The National Organization for Women (NOW).  Austin is currently a clinical social worker in outpatient mental health and resides in Cambridge, MA.  He spends his free time practicing yoga, spinning, cooking, reading, writing, and inventing.

Washington, DC

WLC: 1990

Davida McDonald is Director, State Policy at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), where her primary responsibilities are researching and tracking state public policy trends and working with state and local affiliates to build their public policy capacity.  She brings to NAEYC a knowledge of statewide advocacy and coalition-building campaigns. Prior to working at NAEYC, she worked in the state program at the Trust for Early Education as State Program Analyst and came there from Massachusetts, where she managed a statewide information dissemination and capacity building campaign as well as an advocacy skills building and leadership development project targeting child care providers.  Davida graduated from Harvard in 1992 and holds a Masters of Public Health in maternal and child health from the Boston University School of Public Health.

New York City, NY

WLC: 2006 (participant), 2007 (board)

Elizabeth Stahl works in the healthcare investment banking group of Barclays Capital.  She joined Barclays Capital after Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and was acquired by Barclays in the fall of 2008.  During her time at Barclays and Lehman, she has worked on a variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, equity follow-ons, debt offerings and recapitalizations within the life sciences and service s space.  Elizabeth is an avid runner and has completed two half marathons this past year and is planning to compete in three more next year.  She will also be running the ING New York City Marathon next November as a member of Team Hole to raise money for the summer camps founded by Paul Newman that enable seriously ill children to attend summer camp with full medical resources for free.  Additionally, Elizabeth is an avid Duke Basketball fan and has a keen interest in both modern art and photography.

Cambridge, MA

WLC: 2002

Honor is a graduate student in the joint MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School and MIT, where she is studying the molecular mechanisms of learning and memory in the brain.  She is also a non-resident premedical tutor at Pforzheimer House, a student mentor for the MIT BioMatrix advising program, and a competitive swimmer with New England Masters Swimming at MIT.  As an undergrad, Honor wrote and edited for the Harvard International Review, and rowed for Pforzheimer House crew.

Cambridge, MA

WLC: 1989

Rachna is currently Marketing Counsel of the Advanced Markets Group at John Hancock Life Insurance in Boston.  She has been at John Hancock for ten years, and prior to that she was in private practice in estate planning for three years.  She is married to a law school classmate, Rajeev Balakrishna, whom she met at Georgetown Law School, and she has two children, Rohan (age 8) and Rani (age 5).  She is a native of Brookline, Massachusetts, and has been living back in Brookline for the last 8 years. Rachna enjoys tennis, Indian dance, swimming, playing with her kids and reading.  As an undergrad, she was involved with the Harvard Foundation, Women’s Leadership Project and Expressions Dance Company.