HESA Awards

Award Winners 2022 – 2023 

You can see the live recording of the 2022 – 2023 HESA Awards on our @HESAVideo YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/NQjOuJt1bxM. We also have a shared photo album with pictures from the evening: https://photos.app.goo.gl/n3pAYWe5WmB6kb1s8. 

Congratulations again to all of the awardees and to all of the Harvard Extension School graduates!! (If you have a photo you’d like to add, or if your name is not tagged below and you would like it to be, please reach out to Danielle Nuchereno). 

AWARD WINNERS

Kody Christiansen Vanguard Leadership Award – Kody Christiansen (inaugural recipient) 

Best Mentor – Graeme D Bird / Cynthia Meyersburg

Favorite Professor – Zach Nowak / Teo Nicolais

Undergraduate Rising Star – Danielle Nuchereno

Best HESA Event – Flavor Flav + Kody Christiansen Sober Talk

Most Active Club / Society – Harvard Extension School Psychology Student Society

HES Club / Society Student Leader of the Year – Kimia Grigoriev

Most Inspiring Classmate – Andrew Johnson

Community Service Ambassador – Jacqueline Shelton

Community Connector – Scully Wang

Most Active Alumni – Laura Ashleigh Davidson

Interactive Engagement – Lindsey Siegfried de Sánchez

Phoenix 180 – Maya Bach

Most Inspiring Alumni – Rasha Abousalem

Most Intriguing Class – Self & Identity (Alexandra Sedlovskaya) / Dying Well (Jason Silverstein)

Best Advisor – Tricia Lenihan / Mark Ouchida

Silver Award – Victoria H. Trabosh

Club / Society Rising Star – Gustavo Gomez / Nick Gjerde / Meghna Middha / Nathalie Zender / Cat Dvořák

Club / Society Luminary – Art Foster / Kimia Grigoriev / Michelle Kim / Heather Fife / Mark Nabong / Alexandra Islas / Punit Kaur

Student Government Luminary – Kody Christiansen / Heerraa Ravindran

Undergraduate Student Leader of the Year – Kody Christiansen

Graduate Rising Star – Lydia Rossman

Graduate Student Leader of the Year – Melissa Deehring

President’s Award – Harvard Extension School Dean Nancy Coleman

Award Winners 2021 – 2022 

Congrats to our HESA Awards Winners for 2021-2022:

  • Favorite Professors: Collier Brown and Remo Airaldi 
  • Best advisors: Sarah Anne Stinnett and Chuck Houston
  • Best Mentor: Doug Bond and Cynthia Meyersburg
  • Most Intriguing Class: Intelligence and International Security ; The Irish Supernatural 
  • Interactive Engagement: Rasha Abousalem
  • Most Inspiring Classmate: Ghadi Sebaali
  • Community Service Ambassador: Maleen Fischer
  • Community Connector: Kody Christiansen
  • Phoenix 180: Jody Trumball
  • Best HES Event: Paint & Sip (HESA Events Committee)
  • Most Active Club: HES International Relations Club
  • Club Leader of the Year: Adele Green (HES IRC)
  • Club Rising Star: Callie Friesen (Creative Writing Club) and Anders Cueva (Creative Writing Club)
  • Most Active Alumni: Ian Lamont (@HarvardExtended)
  • Most Inspiring Alumni: Jill Slye
  • The President’s Award: Kevin Jura
  • Graduate Rising Star: Andrea Stull
  • Graduate Student Leader of the Year: Maleen Fischer
  • Undergraduate Rising Star: Alexandra Islas
  • Undergraduate Student Leader of the Year: Kody Christiansen
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