 | Andrew Zhao (he/him) – 2026 Hailing from the exotic town of Wayland, Massachusetts, Andrew promises everyone that he is not a masshole. He was initially thrown into the welcoming arms of the outdoors as a boy scout. From there, Andrew’s love of the outdoors flourished through camping, hiking, and skiing. He also claims to be an amazing backcountry chef, backed up by his wonderful gato gato. Off the trails, Andrew enjoys playing soccer, eating good food, and only wearing brown and green clothes. |
 | Anna Collins (she/her) – 2026 Anna’s love for the outdoors stems from her childhood in Northern California, where she hails from. She grew up hiking in redwood forests, lovingly memorizing different fern species along the trails, and night-swimming in bioluminescent coves. If it weren’t for her magical freshman seminar Tree, she’s not sure she would’ve survived the transition to Harvard’s urban campus (ask her about her sugar maple). Perhaps controversially, she believes nothing hits the spot after hiking quite like mass amounts of HUDS cornbread. In her free time, you can find her rewatching Pride and Prejudice 1995, painting on any surface that looks vaguely paintable, going for long barefoot walks in the rain, buying the same book in several different editions, and DIYing projects completely beyond her range of ability and/or skill. Turns out watching a twenty-second Tiktok about building a desk does NOT qualify you for building a desk. She is shocked and aggrieved by this discovery. |
 | Carly Brail (she/her) – 2026 Hailing from the incredibly challenging terrain and biological diversity of the Concrete Jungle, Carly loves running, walking , biking, and literally anything outside. She will talk for hours and hours about country music, is obsessed with Jason Isbell, and loves to “adventure” in the vaguest possible sense. |
 | Cathy Campbell (she/her) – 2026 Cathy hails from the rough-and-tumble suburbs of Connecticut. She traces her love of the outdoors back to weeks spent at her grandmother’s farm in upstate New York and her early enchantment with The Boxcar Children. Her favorite childhood activities at the farm included fishing for trout in the brook, naming every salamander she encountered, and occasionally getting lost in the woods. Cathy is a big fan of outhouses with a view, and her favorite (so far) has been one overlooking a forest of pines in Homer, Alaska. Aside from that quest, you can often find her yapping away in Lowell courtyard, enjoying obscene quantities of HUDS clam chowder, and looking for bodies of water to jump into. |
 | Charlie Ryan (he/him) – 2026 Hailing from the wooded-ish (depends where you are) wonderland that is Wisconsin, Charlie developed an extreme appreciation for things like canoeing, the Packers, camping, fishing, skiing (which is “EXTREMELY” difficult in Wisco), and somehow the flavor of mango sticky rice. Nowadays, you can often find Charlie running around the river in the middle of the night or perhaps doing some semi-leisurely laps in the pool. He is perhaps best described as a connoisseur of literature (pretty much just fantasy novels), a moderately solid chef, and an aspiring actor. He loves creating random tier lists as well as having deep or wacky conversations. His goals right now are to run an Iron Man and perhaps complete the World Marathon Challenge. A resident of Cabot (Semper Cor!!!) studying applied mathematics, he is happy to have a conversation with anyone. So say hi if you see him! |
| Elodie Sinclair – 2026 No Leader Bio | |
 | Jonathan Chen (he/him) – 2026 When Jonathan was 7, he faced great disappointment; as his family continued their journey up Mt. Lassen, he instead had to hurry down the trail lest his bowels make an untimely, unwanted, un-solid appearance. This childhood despair perhaps fueled Jonathan’s passion upon introduction to the modern wonder of catholes and trowels— a passion so fierce one might mistake him to be studying the “Vitality of Fibrous, Dehydrated Fruit for Daily Dietary Needs” rather than CPB and Statistics. Most recently hailing from Houston TX, but harboring a deep affection for his previous homes in Pennsylvania, California and Western Australia, Jonathan might often be found complaining about heat and humidity and marveling over the existence of seasons. Jonathan loves to talk, so please ask him to wax un-poetic about his rules for salad construction, growing collection of unused teabags, and an unfulfilled desire to be a competitive speed puzzler! |
 | Josh Rooney (he/him) – 2026 Josh likes to take naps in public. He also likes to take naps in private. Because he hails from Ohio, Josh’s favorite outdoor activity is sledding down a hill on pumpkin guts in a baby pool. On campus, Josh is often found decomposing (doing his psets) in the Widener stacks or convincing his friends that Noch’s buffalo chicken pizza is the real body of Christ. Josh is convinced that inhaling chlorine during his years as a competitive swimmer gifted him his mathematical abilities, which is why he spends his free time as Harvard’s Club Swim captain. Don’t ask him what skibidi means. Please. He doesn’t know why Ohio is involved. |
| Kaija Mara Vitins Hornburg (she/they) – 2026 No Leader Bio | |
 | Kainoa Paul (he/him) – 2026 Kainoa hails from Honolulu, Hawai’i where he ignored the advice of TLC and decided to go chasing waterfalls. Although his rainy pursuits didn’t always pan out, Kainoa found himself in love with Hawai’i’s incredible outdoors. The mountains had everything he needed: quality time with friends, incredible views, and an excuse to fuel his Belvita addiction. Here in New England, Kainoa plans to continue eating Belvita (cinnamon, of course) and can’t wait to explore the vastness of North America. He’s heard some mixed reviews, though. Apparently there’s large carnivorous mammals? And seasons? |
 | Katie LeBuhn (she/her) – 2026 Originally from the wooded wonderland of Westchester, New York, Katie grew up constantly being confused for a tree due to her 6’3” stature. Legend has it that her parents watered her every night to help her grow! A proud 12-year product of sleepaway camp, Katie’s favorite memory of her camp days is “fighting” (scaring) a “bear” (chipmunk) away from her “shelter” (shelter) on Mount Greylock. Additionally, Katie is known for her medical allergy to cold (yes, the temperature) which has confused many, who wonder how she survives the snow and hail of Boston winters. Katie enjoys hiking, canoeing, and kayaking, serving epic meals (and looks), and once the sun goes down she won’t stop identifying her favorite constellations (no matter how much she is begged to stop). When not gallivanting around in the forest, Katie can be found wandering aimlessly through the streets of Cambridge, listening to Paul Simon or Charli XCX. |
 | Kennedy Hackett (she/her) – 2026 Meet Kennedy Hackett, the prodigy who hails from Pasadena with a heart as big as California because Texas is not the only big state! and a love for country music that runs deeper than a muddy riverbed. When it comes to twangin’ tunes, she’ll tell you it’s “not just Morgan Wallen, honey, there’s a whole honky-tonk universe out there!” But don’t let those cowboy boots fool you; Kennedy’s not just a two-stepping country connoisseur. She’s also a bona fide wilderness warrior, thanks to her Quad cred. Whether it’s conquering mountains or just heading to Science center B for the second time of the day, Kennedy knows how to hike like a pro. When she’s not crooning along to her favorite country ballads or scaling peaks, Kennedy is hard at work on her biomedical engineering degree, all while riding the pre-med rollercoaster. Yup, she’s the kind of person who finds serenity in the chaos of complex equations and lab experiments. For Kennedy, being outdoors is the calm in the storm of her life, where she can recharge and prepare for the next verse in her epic journey. So, if you’re ever in need of a hiking buddy who can break down the science behind a perfect campfire s’more or if you want to debate the merits of classic versus contemporary country tunes, Kennedy Hackett is your go-to gal. She’s as witty as a stand-up comedian at a rodeo and as sharp as a scalpel in the OR – a true force of nature, y’all! |
 | Natalie Weiner (she/her) – Class of 2026 Natalie hails from the concrete jungle of NYC, yet somehow has embraced the crunchy, granola girl lifestyle. A self-proclaimed walking fiend, Natalie is in her happy place roaming the streets and parks of NYC. Natalie is infamous among her friends as the “one that never gets cold and always wears shorts while running in the dead of winter.” Due to her cold-bloodedness, inclement weather does not deter Natalie in the slightest from getting outside. 12 degrees and snowing? Put on some snow boots and layer up! Torrential downpour? I’ve got my raincoat, rain pants, umbrella and an extra set of clothes/socks in my backpack! Natalie is an extreme peanut butter enthusiast and will often talk about her intense craving for an apple with peanut butter as the hunger hiker hits while summiting a mountain. Besides her love for extremely long walks/hikes, Natalie is an avid road biker. Despite not being able to ride a bike till age 10, she somehow managed to bike across the country the summer before her senior year and will not stop talking about her overwhelming love for the great state of Kansas ? |
| Nyah Joudeh (she/her) – 2026 Nyah Joudeh, the biggest lover of “y’all’s,” hails from the gorgeous Greenville, South Carolina. Raising chickens, playing soccer, beekeeping, hiking Appalachia, and rolling around in dirt (which she is adamant has improved her immune system), her passion for the outdoors is hectic but based in growing as a person through unique experiences. She will beg y’all to meditate with her and try to make you laugh with her dad jokes! | |
 | Raunak Daga (he/him) – 2026 Raunak hails from Northern Virginia, but born in good ol’ Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a whopping 15 minute drive from Harvard (maybe it was a sign). Growing up in the abundance of national parks that is the mid-Atlantic (NOT!), Raunak learned to hike in the wonderful Shenandoah Valley, tackling Old Rag and Raven’s Rock amongst many others as his first adventures. When he’s not hitting a new state park, you can find him lamenting the lack of common rooms in Currier (WHY!!!), road biking and fighting bad drivers in downtown Boston, or thinking of getting rich. |
 | Robert Lawrence (he/him) – 2026 Hailing from the perpetual flatlands of Louisiana, what Robert lacked in mountain vistas he made up for with Cajun food and Mardi Gras. A car-camping kid by birth, he became a backpacker convert over his gap year. After traversing the granite peaks of the High Sierra and perfecting his mozzarella-making skills on an organic farm, Robert came to Harvard with a healthy disdain for all things resume-related. Now, readjusted to life with plumbing, he lives in Cabot and is mulling over a concentration in hist & lit. Robert’s preferred procrastination methods include running along the Charles, drinking copious amounts of black coffee, and clicking on targeted ads for backpacking gear. |
| Sofia Mikulasek (she/her) – 2026 Sofia Mikulasek is a transfer student from Deep Springs College, a rock ‘em sock ‘em, real legitimate, fanatically Socratic cowboy college just east of the Sierras. There, she learned to listen to the Voice of the Desert while resting on top of the Druid and gazing into the endless black skies that cup the valley at night. Having been transplanted to Boston, she is learning that leaving behind your tent is not an effective weight-saving strategy and to stop asking where the mountain is when someone points to a hill. The daughter of a diplomat, she has probably lived somewhere that you have (please don’t ask her where she’s from) but has most recently hailing from Poulsbo, WA and has fallen in love with the Olympics. On the trail and off, she enjoys reading, thinking up new variations on the fist bump, and singing the same song over and over again very, very quietly. | |
 | Talia Kahan (she/her) – 2026 Talia, hailing from in New York City, is a loyal fan of many things, among them sunsets, full 12-hour nights of sleep, and Noah Kahan. Though she loves to prank people that she is Noah Kahan’s long-lost cousin, she has no relation to him, despite their eerily similar love of Orange Juice (iykyk). A resident of the quad, she is ecstatic about her new bike (named Maren) and frequent nights spent wandering the tunnels of Cabot house. |
 | Vinson Martin (he/him) – 2026 Hailing from the vast canyons and valleys of downtown Atlanta, Georgia, Vinson realized his passion for nature at a young age. After spending his formative years fishing with his grandparents, Vinson’s love of water and water sports translated into an obsession with surfing. If you are familiar with Georgia’s geography, you will notice that Atlanta is nowhere near the ocean, but he tries his best. Hopping on the “wave” (haha) of post-covid gap years, Vinson spent the 2021-2022 school year backpacking the West Coast of South America and is now ready to meet the awesome people at HOC. |
 | Ezra Feder (he/him) – 2024 Ezra hails from Sharon, MA, where he first developed his love for the outdoors boating on Sharon’s lake, hiking its trails, and biking to the world’s eighth-best ice cream store. He loves everything outdoors but especially enjoys backpacking. Ezra hopes to summit all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4,000 footers in the next few years. Catch him on campus biking around and feeling sad that he’s not in the backcountry! |
 | Coby Sheehan (he/him) – 2024 Coby hails from Austin, Texas, where the summers are almost as hot as his take that coffee is better with butter in it. Coby also has much family in Hawaii (where he was born) and grew up surfing, mountain biking, and petting his two bunnies during summers there. On campus, he participates avidly in IM sports, enjoys studying in Tatte while feeling slightly guilty about not buying anything, and loves playing Codenames with friends. He also loves the Quincy dining hall beets. |
 | Arturo Aguilar (he/him) – 2024 Growing up in the beautiful desert-southwest environment of El Paso, TX, Arturo, unfortunately, did not realize his love for the outdoors until he arrived in the green forests of New England. His passion for the outdoors began after his first visit to the Arnold Arboretum and he now firmly believes it to be the single greatest contribution to society Harvard has ever made. His ideal outdoor activity is taking a hike or nature walk and sharing interesting facts about the surrounding flora and fauna to anyone willing to listen (disclaimer: slightly biased towards the plant side of things). You can usually find Arturo inspecting flowers around campus and sporting one of his many pairs of eccentric socks (his favorite being “mushroom logs”). |
 | David Aley (he/him) – 2024 David grew up in the United State of New Jersey, where he spent the majority of his time eating bagels, listening to Bruce Springsteen, and talking about how much he loved bagels and Bruce Springsteen. He really enjoyed his experience working at a running store in his hometown, where he once sold Stephen Colbert a pair of Asics, and also fell in love with outdoor communities. From running in 200+ mile relay races in Montana, to attempting (and failing) to surf in Hawaii, to hiking up mountains in the Austrian Alps, David has found himself consistently avoiding indoor spaces. When he (reluctantly) goes inside, you can find him struggling to complete NYTimes mini crosswords, procrastinating homework, or showing off pictures of his dog, Lola. His dream is to one day have a dog that will hike with him (Lola’s legs are unfortunately too short). |
 | Aurelia Balkanski (she/her) – 2024 Aurelia was born and raised right next to sunny Stanford, CA. When she decided to pack her bags and haul ass all the way across the country to the sometimes very cold and sometimes very sticky state of Massachusetts, her family took it as a sign to move out too. Now, as a(n extremely proud and vocal) resident of Wyoming, Aurelia spends her summers frolicking in the mountains and lakes and her winters snowboarding in Jackson Hole. She enjoys petting animals, cooking and eating pasta, mid hike pb&j’s, swimming in any body of water regardless of temperature, sunsets that leave you speechless, and the stars. She does not enjoy cooked fish, pants that fit everywhere but your waist, potato chips (don’t tell matt, please), people who don’t pick up after you call them right back, and light pollution. Aurelia also loves when you sign up for her trips! Come hike! |
 | Ben Gallagher – 2024 “Oh, you think New Hampshire is your ally. But you merely adopted the state; I was born in it, moulded by it.” – Ben Gallagher to HOC When Ben isn’t labelling the entire state of NH as his backyard, catch him around campus reading way too many books and stack ranking the HUDS soups. Off campus he loves to get outside in all seasons, though somehow finds a way to get burnt regardless of the weather. He claims slowboarder as a personality trait and slow hiker as a lifestyle. If you see him during his daily trek from the quad, say hi! |
 | Samantha Galvin – 2024 Samantha Galvin hails from a small town a whopping 35 minutes north of campus, North Reading, Massachusetts. Her go to ice breaker is that she learned how to sing the alphabet backwards in preschool and can still do it to this day. She is also full of fun facts, her favorite one being that the only other mammal that enjoys spicy food is the tree shrew. Her love of the outdoors came from an early age of boating in the lakes region of New Hampshire with her grandparents, and came to fruition with the trail running she did as a cross country athlete in high school. Her favorite place to hike is the White Mountains of New Hampshire, although she would love to hike in some more tropical locations as well. Samantha’s love of the outdoors is due to both the calming ambiance and a deep rooted fascination for other creatures. Sammy loves to rock fun socks with any outfit, can constantly talk about her pet bunny, Nugget, and is a huge supporter of listening to Christmas music long before Thanksgiving arrives. |
 | Talya Li (she/her) – 2024 Talya has found a home in nature complaining about how ankles don’t work (no seriously they don’t) on the MacLehose Trail, trying–and epically failing–at identifying the constellations on camping trips, and being ruthlessly beaten in pond hockey. When she’s not planning a trip, you can find her psetting in Leverett dhall, showing off her collection of funky socks, singing loudly—and poorly—to Maggie Rogers, and telling a poor stranger the entire rundown of her next outdoor adventure. She greatly looks forward to listening to your story and telling you all about hers on a scenic ~stroll~ somewhere in the Whites. |
 | Klara Kuemmerle (she/her) – 2024 Hailing from downtown Boston where the wildest natural experiences she had as a kid were splashing in the Frog Pond and running from squirrels in the Boston Common, Klara now makes any excuse to go backpacking, hiking, rock climbing, camping, skiing, running, or biking. After hiking the W-Trek in Patagonia and traversing part of the Atacama dessert over her gap year, she now aspires to explore more of the Northeast and eventually the PNW, but she’s down for any trail in between tbh. Her passions include hammocking in the quad, pressuring the university to divest from fossil fuels, searching high and low for the best vegan baked goods, (sometimes just giving up and baking them herself), making pottery in the Cabot third-space, and biking to TJs for fresh fruit and pumpkin tortilla chips. Klara lives in Currier house and studies Environmental Science and Public Policy. |
 | Olisaneme Okonkwo (he/him) – 2024 Olisaneme grew up in a town called Clarksburg, Maryland. There are very few things he would rather do than be outside. When he’s not fishing, biking, kayaking, or hiking, Olisaneme is running (or eating). His seasoning of choice is Old Bay, quite possibly the best seasoning that has graced the earth (if you haven’t had Old Bay yet just ask, he has a lot of it on hand). Olisaneme loves hiking and camping, especially along waterways, since he was raised near the Chesapeake Bay. However, though he has preferences, there are very few trip ideas that Olisaneme will turn down. He likes new and exciting outdoor experiences that push him out of his comfort zone. |
 | David Shaw (he/him) – 2024 David has lived in Boston his entire life (not actually, he lives a 15 min-drive away), but had only hiked a few times in the Northeast before college (aghast emoji). But then covid hit and David realized he needed to be outside as much as possible. His family also got a dog, Holly (an absolute menace), and he cannot wait to take her hiking with him. If he’s not stomping from the Quad or crashing his bike into other people, David will most likely working on his architecture drawings and will never shut up about them. |
 | Kate Stevens – 2024 Kate is from Rye, New York, where her love for hiking, biking, and all-things outdoors fostered in the picturesque backdrop of suburban New York. During the summer, she would often trade the charming countryside of Westchester Country for wild outdoor adventures–trekking the AT with twizzlers and 2000s throwback songs, biking touring different coasts, and forcing her friends to go camping with her. She likes to spend her days getting lost on her bike (and somehow one summer made it across the country?), cultivating her extensive fun sock collection, and continuously attempting to be a plant person, although she has yet to keep one of her many bonsai trees alive. |
 | Matt Kung (he/him) – 2023 For several years in his youthful naïveté, Matt toiled laboriously in hopes of acquiring a prized sponsorship from the world’s most influential corporation, Frito Lay North America, Inc. Alas, his pursuit was dismally unrequited. Bedraggled and downtrodden, he eventually conceded defeat and set forth in search of a new passion. He settled upon HOC, where he leads trips into the beautiful chip-less expanse of the great outdoors, free from the shackles of corporate society. Embark on one of his trips to enjoy nature’s magnificence, good company, and – uhhh? – a refreshing bag of Lay’s Kettle-Cooked Potato Chips at the summit? |
 | Zoe Goldstein – 2023 Since making the trek from her home in Cambridge, MA to her (Eliot) House in Cambridge, MA (a trend?), Zoe has enjoyed continuing to build a reputation for herself as the clumsiest person to consistently seek out balance-challenging and post-hole-promising hikes. She has an intense love of books, comfy clothing, and all things fruit. When she’s not planning hikes in the Whites for days it’s going to rain or repeatedly asking people how they are as she passes them in the Yard, you can find her hanging out with five- and six-year-olds with the Mission Hill After School Program, walking back and forth between Eliot and the SOCH, or in the Barker Center bragging about how she only has class three days a week. She butters her toothbrush AFTER she puts water on it. |
 | Michael Wallace (he/him) – 2023 Michael was raised in the untamed forests of Wilton, Connecticut, a place with a large population of retirees and some of Connecticut’s hardest mountain biking trails, two things that go together really well. In September 2018, Michael decided to hike all of the 48 tallest mountains in New Hampshire in a single week. The attempt was a failure, covering only 5 hours and 1 peak before Michael packed up and came back to Harvard. Some say he never intended to hike all 48 peaks at all; some say he is a tragic hero who was crippled by circumstance. Michael says he actually did all 48 when you weren’t looking. When he’s not planning a new trip, Michael enjoys going for long runs, getting cannolis from Mike’s Pastries, and marveling at the wonders of public transport. |
 | Luke Bailey (he/him) – 2023 Luke was raised in Longframlington (I promise its a real place), a small village in northern England. There wasn’t much to do in the village apart from go to the bakers and/or butchers, and talk to old people, so Luke spent much of his childhood exploring the local cheviot hills (imagine the rockies but way better because its in England). There are loads of great hikes and climbing spots in this area which is where Luke fell in love with the outdoors. After coming to university, Luke became a leader in the Outing Club to help others explore the outdoors. Luke studies computer science and math and lives in Dunster House. Catch him at IMs trying very hard but not achieving much because he spends too much time doing psets and not enough time at the Gym. |
 | Alana Carroll (she/her) – 2023 Alana hails from upstate NY, where she spent many years smearing herself (and her siblings!!) with mud and running wild through creek, marsh, and forest. Every summer (and during her gap year) she returns to her hometown to teach kids (and adults!) essential survival skills such as starting fires with friction, which mud pits are best for camouflage, how to carve with stone, how to catch trout with your bare hands, and how to properly abandon one’s civility. If you go on a trip with Alana, be prepared for intense excitement about what the general public dubs “mud, twigs, weeds, and pests”. It is her greatest desire to get everyone else as hyped about them as she is. |
 | Megan Curry – 2023 Megan is technically a SoCal native, but since moving to Colorado for high school, she’s morphed into your stereotypical (Kind) granola hiker. Against the backdrop of Mt. Blanca, a 14er in the middle of nowhere Colorado, she fell in love with hiking and trail running. Today, you can find her hiking around Boulder or begging her friends and family to hike Longs Peak, to which they always decline. When she’s not hiking, you can find her trying to finish course books the class only read two chapters from, learning how to cook, or crocheting scarves. |
 | Jim Diamondidis – 2023 Jim Diamondidis actually IS Batman. When he’s not saving lives in Gotham, he’s saving lives on treacherous HOC trips in New Hampshire. Jim always brings candy on his HOC trips, and he expects you to jam with him on the car ride. He studies math, and will probably ask you math questions on the trail—but don’t be fooled!—he’s an artsy-fartsy ski bum hippie at heart. Oh, and p.s., Alta is for skiers. |
 | Alex Fogel (she/her) – 2023 Alexandra was raised in suburbs of NYC, which does not have tall mountains but does have awesome bagels which kinda makes up for it. She loves the outdoors despite the fact that the outdoors does not always love her (evidenced by the fact that she once sank up to her waist in mud in the middle of swamp while everyone else was somehow spared). Some of her favorite things to do in her favorite places to be are hiking in the White Mountains, surfing off the coast of Long Island, slaloming in Lake George, and skiing at Alta (she’s a first chair kinda gal). On campus, she can be found doing her Social Studies reading and EPS psets at the Barker Cafe, drumming up social events for the Club Climbing Team in her hammock at the Barker Garden, and just generally loitering around Barker. |
 | Nina Foster (she/her) – 2023 Nina is a proud plant mom and English major hailing from Ossining, New York. When she’s not sipping an oat milk latte and reading in a cozy cafe, she happily sacrifices her Birks for hiking boots and heads to the mountains. A hike with Nina comes with an Insta-worthy photo guarantee, the only caveat being that you’ll have to wait weeks until she finally gets her film developed. Be warned: she will stop for at least five minutes to cuddle with any dog that she encounters on the trail, and she probably won’t stop talking about how cute the last one was until another comes along. Nina is also known for spontaneously belting out Christmas songs regardless of the time of year, diving into deep conversations after knowing someone for fifteen minutes, and curating Spotify playlists for those long drives into the Whites. |
 | Naomi Hegwood (she/her) – 2023 Naomi Hegwood hails from North Dakota AKA the-one-state-the-you-have- never-been-to, which basically just means that she says bag wrong, knows way more about cows than she ever wanted to, and gets VERY excited whenever she’s in a place with trees and/or actual topography. Even though her fingers and toes are permanently icicles from living in one of the closest things the United States has to an Arctic Tundra her whole life, her warm heart and sarcastic comments still manage to melt through the snow, causing her to somehow be able to survive standing outside in -30 degree temperatures. When she is not freezing, Naomi can be found attempting to identify plants, doodling gnomes to her heart’s content (many people call her Nomes), or staring at her computer screen pretending to do work but instead getting distracted and looking up squirrels. |
 | Jenny Lu (she/her) – 2023 Jenny comes from the warm (HOT), sunny Austin, Texas, where she grew up swimming outdoors year-round and goes on long walks with her goldendoodle, Pi (yes, like the number). In addition to the good old travel-by-foot, she loves to bike, ski, and ice skate. On campus, you might find her with a camera, or you just might not find her because she’s eating in Allston. Challenge Jenny to a game of Set, Bananagrams, or name the Taylor Swift song in 10 seconds, and her heart will be yours! |
 | Annie Miall (she/her) – 2023 Annie comes from the faraway lands of Boston, Massachusetts where she fills her time with food. LOTS of food– including cooking maple bacon brussels sprouts, baking sponge cake, and consuming (and rating!) quality vanilla ice cream. When she’s not satisfying her gastronomic desires, you can find her hastily putting one foot in front of another (running), flapping her arms and legs in bodies of water (swimming), and having the absolute time of her life (hiking! With YOU!). |
 | Christian Wagner – 2023 Hailing from the coastal ranges of Northern California, Christian grew up surrounded by redwood trees and ice-cold breakers. He first discovered his love for the backcountry in high school while backpacking the beautiful glaciers of Oregon’s Three Sisters Wilderness. Since then, he’s spent his days out west exploring the Sierras and beyond. When life took him east to the land of bricks and sticks, he made a vow not to let the hills of New England go untrodden, which he’s been living by ever since. On campus you can find him either nerding out at Stat office hours, hacky-sacking in Eliot courtyard, or sitting with his guitar by the Charles singing sad, sad songs, lamenting the 3,000 miles between himself and the kelpy surf breaks of Santa Cruz. |
 | Rob Walker (he/him) – 2023 Rob’s currently trapped inside a computer. |
 | Kristina Wolinski – 2023 Kristina grew up in the suburbs of Boston, where her family taught her to compost and then to watch each night as raccoons came to raid the compost bin. On her first ever hiking overnight, she threw up in a composting toilet, and has been hooked ever since – perhaps too hooked, though, because sometimes in the frontcountry she realizes she doesn’t remember when her last shower was. Some of Kristina’s favorite activities include running slowly, writing old-fashioned letters to friends, playing board games, and talking deep into the night. If college doesn’t work out, her plan is to become a full-time nomad. |
 | Sam Woolf (she/her) – 2023 Sam Woolf, also known as “Hungry Like The” Woolf by her middle school gym teacher (for her excessive aggression during floor hockey), is now trying to live up to the name through the interesting snacks she brings on Outing Club hikes. These include, but are not limited to: instant sticky rice, dark chocolate ganache hearts, and goat cheese crumbles. Her favorite trail snack though, is the “immensely fruity, intensely chewy” Hi-Chew. Not only is the candy a nod to her Japanese heritage, but the altitude pun hits different on the summit. |
 | Serena Wurmser (she/her) – 2023 Serena is from Montclair, NJ, but has spent the past year living in Utah, North Carolina, and Nevada… basically a lot of places. She studies Astrophysics and Earth & Planetary Sciences at Harvard, and loves nothing more than telling people about the night sky (her friends sadly can confirm). Some of her skills include knowing the time using the Big Dipper and making puns about space (although none about the solar system… those are only one star jokes). When not stargazing, she enjoys rock climbing, reading (especially lord of the rings!!), and finding more excuses to walk around barefoot. |
 | Jonathan Zhang (he/him) – 2023 Jonathan “Juicy J” Zhang’s the name, wacky spaztastic fun’s his game! Born in raised in West Bloomfield, Michigan (aka South Canada), he was exposed to the outdoors from a young age. Never more than a few feet away from food at all times, Juicy J will hound people down to feed them like the mother hen he is. After joining a cult in New Mexico called UWC which touts a mission of “sustainability and peace,” Jonathan used the place as an excuse to partake in a week-long hike through the Grand Canyon, a 14-day trip with no refills through the Pecos Wilderness, and a 3-day orientation trip that he led for his own underclassmen. When he’s not in the wilderness, Jonathan can be found in Lowell House having an existential crisis and/or watching the Good Place. |
 | Alvin Zou (he/him) – 2023 Born and raised in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, Alvin couldn’t have grown up closer to the outdoors. Despite the Canadian stereotype, he doesn’t say “baaag” or “a-boot,” and while he never rode a moose to school, he did ski home after class one day (it helps when you live a block away). The Pacific Northwest instilled a deep appreciation for spending time in the wilderness. In his free time, you can catch Alvin skiing into a tree on the slopes of Whistler-Blackcomb, falling off a mountain bike in the Sierra Nevada, and managing to flip a supposedly un-flippable canoe on the Connecticut River (lesson learned: with enough movement, nothing is un-flippable). He also enjoys backpacking, kayaking, and river rafting. |
 | Spencer Carter (he/him) – 2022 Spencer is a junior in Winthrop House studying Psychology. He’s from Pelham, NY and is VERY conflicted about whether he should claim to be a “New Yorker” or not. He’s passionate about HUDS peanut butter, falling asleep in Science Center Hall B, and fixing typos wherever he can get his hands on them. Spencer is an avid hiker and paddleboarder, having fallen in love with the outdoors when he began college. He’s also a Scorpio. Make of that what you will. |
 | Allegra Colman – 2022 Adrenaline junkie by nature, alpine skier by choice, Allegra “Legs” is still getting used to this whole ‘uphill’ phenomenon. You’ll never catch her without a hefty supply of emergency baking soda, endless knee-length socks and a plethora of hair-brained schemes for her next intra-continental adventure. When in Cambridge, Allegra studies History and Literature and enjoys espousing the wonders of HOC to anyone that will listen. |
 | Sinead Danagher (she/her) – 2022 Sinead has learned to love the outdoor adventures around Boston, despite maintaining an internal chant of “West Coast, Best Coast!” at all times. Hailing from Lake Tahoe, CA, you’ll be hard-pressed to convince her your hometown is better. It was among the soaring granite peaks and crystal blue lakes of her home that Sinead discovered the ultra-fun intersection of adrenaline and nature in activities like skiing, hiking, biking and cliff jumping. When not sneaking off campus to further explore this intersection, you can find Sinead loitering in the Fogg or sprawling somewhere along the banks of the Charles |
 | Nellie Ide (she/her) – 2022 Nellie grew up in Minnesota, otherwise known as the state of two seasons: winter is coming, and winter is here. Naturally, she loves to get as much frostbite as possible, so she is on the alpine skiing team (yes, there is a ski team and yes, she knows there are no mountains in Boston). Nellie began her outdoor experience when her family took her on a canoe trip at the tender age of one year old. This led to a childhood full of hiking and canoeing around the Minnesota wilderness, and she looks forward to exploring some real mountains out here in the East! |
 | Matthew Li – 2022 Matthew Li hails from the town of Carlisle, Massachusetts. His love of the outdoors come partly from the fact that trees do not ask him how to spell or pronounce his last name, which comes partly from the fact that trees don’t talk – but they do make a sound upon falling, even if no one hears them. In addition to run on sentences, Matthew enjoys hiking & camping just about anywhere. On campus, Matthew studies some form of life science and some computer science. He also performs stand up comedy. |
 | Theo Lukin Yelin (he/him) – 2022 Hailing from the distant lands of Cambridge, MA, Theo likes to spend his time traversing the wilderness of Garden St. on his bike. Studying Physics and Computer Science, he is always eager to escape the confines of the Science Center Library to explore the White Mountains (although he typically only makes it as far as the dining hall by the time the next problem set is due). He will happily explain why Winter is the optimal hiking season (no mosquitoes, and it’s easier to make a cold person warm than vice versa), but venture out on the hottest of summer days nonetheless, all while complaining that he could still be on bed. On campus you can find him on the hockey rink, or working anywhere from the river to the quad. |
 | Henrietta Reily – 2022 Henrietta grew up in the steep hills of Kentucky and likes to go outside even when everyone else is inside and no one will join her. She also likes going outside with others, forest dynamics, her dogs and the Harvard Outing Club. She dislikes wet socks, sweet coffee, people who whine and light pollution, but if any of them come on her trips she’ll be very nice to them! |
 | Wildman Schubert Reed (he/him) – 2022 His name is Wildman. But if that doesn’t tell you enough about him, here’s a bit more: Wiley was born and raised in a small town called Brooklyn, NY. His outdoor interests range far and wide, from living vicariously through people who have more free time than he does, to being a member at REI. Growing up, he spent almost every weekend fishing and rock climbing on the Long Island Sound. One can only wonder how he rock climbed a body of water… As he got older, he undertook ever-more intense and eclectic outdoor escapades, including a backpacking trip to Hawaii where it rained for 10 days straight. Now he’s afraid of water. On that same trip, lying on his back and looking up at the stars at the top of 14,000-foot Mauna Kea, Wiley understood the meaning of a misplaced modifier, and also decided he wanted to understand the universe. Now he is deep in the throws of a concentration in physics doing just that (and perhaps regretting it a little bit, too). In fact, he was such a big proponent of the outdoors throughout high school that his friends nicknamed him “Tree Boy.” Now he’s a Wildman, and a Tree Boy. |
 | Maggie Schultz – 2022 Growing up in Northern Michigan, Maggie only has a short period of the year in which she can go outside without losing feeling in her toes and fingers. In this time, she developed a love for berry and mushroom picking, camping, running, and hammocking. She loves to jump off tall things (sometimes into water), utilize the chest pocket on her overalls, and sleep in her sleeping bag on top of her normal covers. At Harvard, she lives in Leverett House and studies environmental engineering (so, really her weekly hikes are for ~academic~ purposes). |
 | Zuzanna Skoczylas (she/her) – 2022 Zuzanna grew up in Poland, indisputably home to the best apples. She fell in love with hiking after her parents took her ‘hiking’ and ended up taking a nap and a cable car instead. Her favorite outdoor memory is seeing triple from altitude sickness when hiking inside a volcano. When not outside, you can find her studying computer science or searching for new travel destinations. She tends to spend all her money on vegan food and traveling. |
 | Emily Spector (she/her) – 2022 Emily grew up in New York in an outdoorsy but notably not granola family, and at age 17, she wrote her harvard application essay about how she’d like to run away from school to live in the mountains (and she was accepted?) Her mission now is to travel up and/or down every incline she can find on foot, snowboard, bike, or river with as many people as are willing. In the backcountry, she is known to enjoy sitting in lakes of snowmelt until her body temperature drops to 5°F, and in the front country, she is known to almost lose her gear trailer on I-25 with a van of 12 high schoolers to bear witness. In Cambridge, Emily can be found running long loops around the Charles, violining in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, explaining to unwilling strangers why Mather is the best house, or preparing to yeet herself and others into the mountains. |
 | Nathan Oalican – 2022 Nathan Oalican was born on the streets of Roslindale in Boston, Massachusetts. Born into a family of non-hikers (egad!), Nathan found his calling for the outdoors in gallavants throughout Boston with the self-proclaimed Rozzie Rats of Roslindale. From these humble beginnings, one may say, there was nowhere to go but up. And up he has gone, from Mount Washington in New Hampshire to Mount Whitney in California. When not hiking, you can find Nathan studying plant biology, thinking about landscape history, or signing a supermax deal with the Boston Celtics. |
 | Morgan Whitten (she/her) – 2022 Morgan possesses an uncanny ability to attract mosquitoes; in fact, some believe on one weekend camping trip she donated enough blood to singularly save the mosquito population of Maine from extinction. She has come a long way from her first rendezvous with nature, in which she proclaimed, “I HATE camping! I want to stay in a ho-tel!” Now her fondness of the outdoors rivals her kinship with her own species, which in part drove her to study Environmental Science and Public Policy. A European wannabe, Morgan calls Stuttgart, Germany home (do beer gardens count as the “outdoors”? do nude spas?). |
 | Ursula Volz – 2022 Ursula lives in Orono, ME but is an Alaskan girl at heart, having lived in Anchorage for 15 years. Despite having survived frostbite on the back of a dog sled and being charged by an angry mama moose, Ursula looks back on her Alaskan childhood fondly as it was the place she fell in love with the outdoors. She is a junior in Leverett House concentrating in Mechanical Engineering with a secondary in Astrophysics and—her most challenging academic pursuit—a Norwegian citation from Harvard’s illustrious (read: extremely niche) Scandinavian Languages Department. Skål! When Ursula isn’t contemplating rotational inertia, she can be found roller skiing throughout Boston as member of the Nordic Ski team, or planning her next weekend adventure. |
 | Cameron Maltman – 2020 Cameron hails from rural Canada where he learned, among other things, the call of the moose, how to properly wear a flannel shirt, and the true meaning of the word “eh”. He is known at Harvard as the kid who likes “canoes and stuff”. Cameron dislikes weekends not spent outside, sitting still, and getting less than 7 hours of sleep. He enjoys hiking, white-water canoeing, weekends spent in a tent and building stuff (some would call it engineering). His love for the outing club is only matched by his love for maple syrup and HUDS stuffed chicken. |
 | Sophie Pesek – 2020 Sophie “Stilts” Pesek is easy to spot at a distance because of her height and tendency to only wear clothing with animals on it. She grew up in Cambridge before being sent off to boarding school in New Hampshire, where she survived by spending all of her time in the woods. Now that she’s back in Cambridge, she tries to return to the NH wilderness whenever she can. When she’s not studying Environmental Engineering or walking to and from Pfoho, she loves to spend time sailing, skiing, and listening to sci-fi books as she runs. |
 | Molly Leavens – 2020 Molly is studying environmental science and public policy with a focus in food systems. She enjoys ALL sports, cooking, playing guitar, making art, and making people uncomfortable. Additionally, she loves to make chocolate pudding in large camping pots for Will Li. She is currently in a long-distance relationship with her cat and dreams at night about a peanut butter/nutella/marshmallow fluff/cookie butter ice cream flavor. She resides from Utah, currently lives in the CoOp, and loves HOC more than a hawk likes mice. |
 | Lars Hornburg – 2020 Lars was raised in the beauty of northern Michigan and grew up working in the vineyards of Traverse City. He was shaped by the the scenic landscape much like the fine Chardonnay wines he worked to create, and while some say his smile is equally sweet and intoxicating, his personality has a complexity more akin to a Cardboardeaux. In addition to his love of hiking, he enjoys racing as a member of Harvard’s Alpine Ski Team, and watercolor painting. He has few accomplishments in life but hopes to limit his negative impact on society by concentrating in environmental science and public policy. Despite his general lack of achievement, he is a very proud owner of possibly the largest collection of Patagonia fleeces in the contiguous US. |
 | David Lu – 2020 David was raised in Houston, Texas and therefore owns a single, lone pair of long pants. He can be found hiking and rafting in Big Bend National Park, or exploring restaurants all over Houston. He enjoys eating barbeque, eating Tex-mex, and eating sushi, so basically he just likes eating food in general. His other hobbies include running, playing squash, and meditating. |
 | Jeyna Doshi – 2020 Jeyna grew up in the oldest town in Connecticut, known for its small town feel and numerous tobacco farms (which make for a great summer job!). As a youngling, she disliked most things that had to do with nature, much to her mother’s disappointment. Nowadays the tides have turned, and she dislikes anything that keeps her inside. She begins having ski dreams around the beginning of July (this year it was June) and waits another agonizing five months (or more) for the snow to come. During the other three seasons of the year, she enjoys hiking anywhere she can to satisfy her hunger for the mountains. When not biking to-and-from her wonderful home in Cabot, Jeyna can be found playing soccer, practicing yoga, gazing at the stars (without ever remembering what she’s looking at), or baking treats to satisfy her sweet tooth. |
 | Kira Telgen -2020 Kira grew up on a tiny island off the gulf coast of Florida without a single mountain (or hill) in sight but somehow still managed to get passionate about climbing big things. She spends the majority of her semesters loitering around Cabot dining hall and her summers commercially salmon fishing in Bristol Bay, Alaska. You can usually find her with a coke zero in hand professing the merits of platform tevas or planning yet another cross country road trip. |