Advisory Boards

Student Advisory Board

The Intellectual Vitality Student Advisory Board (IV SAB) is the primary student body responsible for shaping and sustaining the principles and values of IV, where open, rigorous and charitable inquiry is not simply a tradition to uphold, but a culture to actively cultivate. That cultivation happens not only in classrooms and lecture halls, but in every other area of campus: the dining halls, residence life, and student clubs and organizations. Working in close partnership with the Director, Faculty Advisory Board, and Harvard’s academic leadership, the SAB ensures that Intellectual Vitality is not imposed from the top down, but instead, grounded in the real perspectives, needs, and aspirations of students themselves.

To learn more about the role of the SAB, click here.

Meet the members of the ’25-’26 Intellectual Vitality Student Advisory Board

Danielle Allen

James Bryant Conant University Professor
Danielle Allen

Bruno Carvalho

Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies
Bruno Carvalho

Stephen Chong

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard SEAS
Stephen Chong

Ryan Enos

Professor of Government
Ryan Enos

Edward Hall

Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy
Edward Hall

Jenny Hoffman

Clowes Professor of Science
Jenny Hoffman

Lauren Kaminsky

Associate Senior Lecturer on History & Literature
Lauren Kaminsky

Tara Menon

Assistant Professor of English
Tara Menon

Eric Nelson

Robert M. Beren Professor of Government
Eric Nelson

Gina Schouten

Professor of Philosophy
Gina Shouten

Alison Simmons

Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy
Alison Simmons

Gillian Sinnott

Preceptor in the Writing Program
Gillian Sinnott

Adaner Usmani

Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Studies
Adaner Usmani

Melanie Matchett Wood

William Caspar Graustein Professor of Mathematics
Melanie Matchett Wood