#  Nadia Borja 

HGHI/SURGH fellow

 

 

 



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Nadia Borja is a rising senior at Harvard College, double-concentrating in Social Studies and Psychology with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. She joins the Mental Health for All Lab this summer as an HGHI/SURGH fellow on the EMPOWER program. Her research moves between clinical, cultural, and structural accounts of mental illness, with particular attention to eating disorders. She is completing a senior thesis on how self-starvation has come to feel coherent to so many people across history, drawing on interviews with treatment alumni and archival research. She serves as a peer counselor through Harvard's Response organization and has worked for several years with immigrant families in Connecticut and New York. A former competitive gymnast, she loves to run along the Charles and work her way through Boston's restaurants and ice cream shops.