# Pre-Career/Grad School ## expand\_more For anyone interested in careers and graduate school beyond business, law, and medicine, the pre-career tutors are here to help you explore different career paths, and prepare for grad school. The [Office of Career Services (OCS)](https://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/) also has multiple resources for those considering [graduate school](https://careerservices.fas.harvard.edu/channels/apply-to-graduate-or-professional-school/), as well as for those who are looking for [job opportunities and advice](https://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/resources). [### Zahra Ahmed ](/people/zahra-ahmed) Non-Resident Tutor Hi Winthrop! I’m Zahra, an educator, artist, and leadership coach who’s passionate about helping people grow into thoughtful, creative, and courageous leaders. By day, I work in faculty development at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education, where I... ![headshot Zahra](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2026-03/Photo_Zahra_Ahmed.jpg?itok=u6KY23EN) [### Paul Bottino ](/people/paul-bottino)Senior Common Room Non-Resident Tutor I worked with Harvard student-founders from 2000 to 2025, through the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard, which I co-founded, and through my startup course, ES95r: Startup R&D from 2012 to 2025. Helping students discover how they want to... ![Paul Bottino](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/pbb_winthrop_pic.png?itok=aV36UcH7) [### Alex Chan ](/people/alex-chan) Non-Resident Tutor ![Winthrop House Shield Placeholder](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/photoplaceholder_0_0_1.png?itok=CxbDAI3y) [### Peter Aubrey Corti ](/people/peter-aubrey-corti) Non-Resident Tutor Hello, my name is Peter and I am a third-year PhD student here at Harvard in the department of African and African American Studies. My research focuses on language and the ways authors give value to their languages through their poetry and written work... ![photo of peter](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/peter.jpg?itok=eVbgoSe-) [### Alejandro De Los Angeles ](/people/alejandro-de-los-angeles) Non Resident Tutor Alejandro De Los Angeles, DPhil, MPH, MS, is a Filipino-American physician-scientist in training whose work bridges stem cell biology, psychiatry, and the governance of emerging medical technologies. He is completing his MD at the University of Central... ![Alejandro De Los Angeles](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/image0.jpeg?itok=hQrsdKet) [### Matt DiSorbo ](/people/matt-disorbo) Resident Tutor Hi Winthrop! My name is Matt, and I'm thrilled to be a part of the resident tutor team. I grew up in the Northwest Hills of Connecticut and attended Harvard, where I was lucky enough to have Winthrop knock on Housing Day. I worked in finance in NYC before... ![Matt DiSorbo](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Matt%20DiSorbo%20Aug%202025_0.png?h=731a73c9&itok=4X-l1UQ1) [### Benjy Firester ](/people/benjy-firester) Non-Resident Tutor Hi Winthrop! I’m Benjy Firester from NYC and I graduated in May 2023. I concentrated in mathematics (AB/AM) with a citation in modern Hebrew. Now I am a PhD student at MIT studying geometric analysis, complex geometry, and mathematics motivated by physics... ![Photo of Benjy](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/benjy.jpg?itok=ukMxdnP_) [### Max Guo ](/people/max-guo) Non-Resident Tutor Hey Throp! My name is Max, and I'm currently a first-year PhD student at Harvard in Economics. I was also an undergraduate, class of 2023, and I was right here in Winthrop! I'm very excited to be part of the community once again. As an undergraduate, I... person [### Manan Kapoor ](/people/manan-kapoor) Non-Resident Tutor Hello! I’m Manan, a PhD candidate in the Department of English. My research focuses on poetry and poetics, and more broadly, I’m interested in global literatures, cultural studies, and questions of movement and belonging. I’m an editor at Harvard Review... ![Manan Kapoor](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Manan-Kapoor_JMH.jpg?h=461fc406&itok=OAMFte_m) [### Jimmy Looney ](/people/jimmy-looney) Non-Resident Tutor Hi Throp! My name is Jimmy Looney and I'm a 2014 graduate of Winthrop. I'm very happy to be back as part of the Throp community. As an undergrad, my concentration was in Earth and Planetary Sciences, and I was also a TF for Stat 104. After graduating, I... ![Jimmy Looney](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/jimmy_looney.jpg?itok=L43uCPlE) [### Mike Osorio ](/people/mike-osorio) Resident Tutor Hey Winthrop! My name's Mike Osorio and I'm really excited to be a part of your community! I was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY. For undergrad, I attended Amherst College where I studied philosophy/pre-med and played rugby. Now I'm entering my 4th year... ![Mike Osorio](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/mike_osorio.jpg?itok=NJB9iw5X) [### Juan Perdomo ](/people/juan-perdomo) Non-Resident Tutor Hi! My name is Juanky (short for Juan Carlos) Perdomo and I am a postdoc in CS where I study machine learning and algorithmic decision making in social settings. I grew up in San Juan, Puerto Rico and moved to Harvard for undergrad, where I had the... ![Photo of Juan](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/juan.png?itok=RMXT_7sq) [### Ciara Sypherd ](/people/ciara-sypherd) Resident Tutor Hi Winthrop! I'm so excited to be joining the community this year as an RT! My name is Ciara (see-air-uh) and I'm a PhD student in bioengineering. I study animal communication using machine learning and try to answer questions like: "Do chimpanzees have... ![Tutor, Ciara sitting in front of the NASA logo statue](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-08/Ciara%20S..jpg?itok=2-U1HcHi) [### Josh Young ](/people/josh-young) Non-Resident Tutor Josh is a graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School and focuses his career on bringing innovation to face the world's social challenges. - 3D printing houses for families living in poverty and “Bitcoin Beach” are his most recent projects. As an... ![Photo of Josh](/sites/g/files/omnuum9706/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/winthrop-house/files/josh_headshot_white.jpg?itok=faiWb1et)