Ezinne Nwankwo

Ezinne NwankwoEzinne Nwankwo, of Winthrop House, concentrated in Applied Mathematics with a focus on Statistics. She spent her freshman summer building a web application at a coding academy in Cape Town and as a research assistant at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Last summer she was a data analytics intern at the City of Boston’s Department of Innovation & Technology, a job that saw her using many of the skills she developed in an advanced math class project she did analyzing the employment database of the City of Austin, Texas. At Harvard she has been vice president of the Harvard Black Students Association and after serving as a volunteer, tutor, and mentor at the Phillips Brooks House Association she served as the Assessment and Evaluations Chair, a role which enabled her to design a common online volunteer application and bring the discipline of statistical analysis to many of PBHA’s diverse public service programs to evaluate their effectiveness. Ezinne is a researcher at the Center for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University.