TEAM



Satchit Balsari (HMS)
Hiteshree Das (GSD)
Kartikeya Bhatotia 
(HKS)
William Boles (GSD)
Bobby McCarthy (College)
Karthik Girish (GSD)
Deepak Ramola 
(GSE)
Shariq M. Shah (GSD)



Satchit Balsari

Harvard Medical School
Dr. Balsari is Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School 
and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; and in the department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 



Hiteshree Das

Harvard Graduate School of Design

As a design researcher pursuing a Master's in Design Studies in the Public Domain at Harvard University, Hiteshree is passionate about leveraging social design and research tools to craft participatory experiences that respond to pressing humanitarian challenges. In her multidisciplinary approach, she collaborates with stakeholders and organizations across scales as a Designer, Storyteller, and Strategist. Her work spans from creating objects, installations, and exhibits to design strategy, service design, community engagement, and participatory design initiatives. Over the years she has collaborated with organizations like Google Arts & Culture, Pratham Digital Innovation, Ariadne Labs, and the Harvard Art Museums.
Curator





Kartikeya Bhatotia

Harvard Kennedy School of Government
 Kartikeya is an economic and demographic researcher from India. He is currently a Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School, specializing in behavioral science, institutional transformation, and climate transition. Before attending Harvard, Kartikeya's research focused on health, the enterprise economy, and women's labor force participation. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Delhi and was a Young India Fellow at Ashoka University.
Economics Researcher



William Boles

Harvard Graduate School of Design
William Boles creates spaces that bridge theater and nature. As a stage designer William has traveled extensively around the United States and Internationally creating environments for new plays and operas. His projects in landscape architecture illuminate storytelling through the remediative aspect of nature, creating spaces that invite communities to reconnect with the earth. William has a BFA from the University of Central Florida, an MFA from Northwestern University and is currently a Master of Landscape Architecture candidate at The Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. 



Deepak Ramola

Harvard Graduate School of Education
Deepak Ramola is a wisdom historian and award-winning educator. He currently co-teaches the ‘Meaning of Life’ course at MIT.  A graduate of Harvard GSE, he previously served as the Kindness Ambassador for UNESCO MGIEP. Over the last 13 years, Deepak has worked at the intersection of wisdom and lifelong learning through his organization Project FUEL, collecting life lessons from 195 countries. His methodology has been recognized as world's top 100 innovations in education and has been adopted across five continents. Deepak is also an accomplished author, with three bestselling books spanning poetry, self-help, and narrative non-fiction.
Digital Storyteller  



Bobby McCarthy

Harvard College 
Bobby McCarthy is a recent graduate from Harvard College (Class of ‘23) with a degree in computer science. Currently he is a teaching assistant for an engineering class at Harvard (PS 70: Intro to Digital Fabrication), and he takes on other engineering projects in his free time.
Technology Lead


Karthik Girish

Harvard Graduate School of Design
Karthik Girish is pursuing a Master's in Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. As a creative and self-motivated researcher and technical planner, he uses a multidisciplinary approach to community engagement, data-driven storytelling, and cultural programming to break down complex problems into consumable information for the progress of cities and communities.
Data-Driven Storyteller



Shariq M. Shah

Harvard Graduate School of Design
 Shariq M. Shah is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher, and MDes candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. His work examines relations between ecology and technology, and the public and climate. Working across installation, web, exhibition, and spatial design, his work seeks to engage the public at a time of climate crisis. Shariq earned his Bachelor of Architecture with a Minor in Human Computer Interaction from the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University.