Senior Common Room

Winthrop's Senior Common Room (SCR) refers to both a physical location and a group of people. The group of people that is Winthrop's SCR comprises scholars and professionals from a diversity of backgrounds as well as the Resident Tutors, Scholars-in-Residence, and various other Winthrop staff.

The SCR enriches the intellectual and cultural life of the Winthrop House community. It helps community members build social and professional networks at Winthrop and beyond through events like the Perini-Woods Memorial SCR Speaker Series. It is a wonderful resource for undergraduates, who are encouraged to engage with and reach out to SCR members.

You can browse the profiles of some of the SCR members below (i.e., those that have opted in to be listed on this website).

The physical Senior Common Room is located in Standish Hall, and is a gathering place for Senior Common Room members.

Interested in knowing more about the SCR? Please reach out to the House Office!

Senior Common Room Members

Parker Shipton
Senior Common Room
Professor Parker Shipton’s current and continuing research interests include economic, legal, and symbolic anthropology and the history of social studies. Topics of his research, teaching, and writing have included agriculture, food, and hunger; credit...

Dan Small
Senior Common Room
Dan Small (HC ’75, HLS ’79, Winthrop House resident and Resident Tutor) is a partner in Holland & Knight's Miami and Boston offices. He practices in the area of litigation, focusing on witness preparation, dispute strategies, government and internal...
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Brian Trelstad
Senior Common Room
Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School
Brian Trelstad is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, teaching social entrepreneurship and impact investing, and is the faculty chair of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He has spent nearly twenty years in the field of impact...
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Jim Waldo
Senior Common Room
Jim Waldo is a Professor of the Practice of Computer Science, as well as a professor of technology policy at the Kennedy School and the CTO of the School of Engineering and Applied sciences. Jim spent most of his career in industry, working in the areas...
Jim Waldo

Rob Watson
Non-Resident Tutor
Senior Common Room
What’s up Throp Family!? My name is Rob Watson and I’m excited to serve as a Winthrop House Non-Resident Tutor and member of the Senior Common Room (SCR). I previously served the house as a Resident Tutor for six years. I currently serve as Executive...
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Francine Welty
Senior Common Room
As a cardiologist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, I focus on preventive cardiology which includes treating complex lipid disorders, diabetes and hypertension and use of nutrition in...
Francine Welty

Frank White
Senior Common Room
Frank White is an educator, space philosopher, and communications consultant. He has authored or coauthored numerous books on topics ranging from space exploration to climate change to artificial intelligence. His best-known work is The Overview Effect...
Frank White

Julie Wilson
Senior Common Room
Julie Wilson is the Harry Kahn Senior Lecturer, Emeritus, at the Kennedy School of Government. Her work has focused broadly on social policy, particularly child welfare, child and adolescent development, sex trafficking of minors, social services and...
Julie Wilson

David Wing
Senior Common Room
David Wing MD is Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School and an attending Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sub Specialized in Sports Injury, at Cambridge Health Alliance. Dr. Wing has been in practice since 2013. Outside of work and family life...
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Tae Yoo
Senior Common Room
Tae Yoo is a 2025 Senior Fellow at Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her focus is nurturing innovators who leverage technology for job creation and positive community impact. At Cisco, she helped the company’s growth through business development...
Tae

Elizabeth Zaldastani Napier
Senior Common Room
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Zaldastani Napier is a nonprofit leader, social entrepreneur, marketing strategist, democracy advocate, and Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative (ALI) Senior Fellow. She serves on several nonprofit boards and leads the Central & East...
Elizabeth Zaldastani Napier

Wendi Zhang
Senior Common Room
Wendi Zhang has over 15 years of professional experience in high tech, entrepreneurship, and early-stage venture capital. She is currently the VP of Operations and Business Development at Celential.ai, a Board of Trustee member for The SETI Institute, a...
Wendi Zhang