Tenzin Gund-Morrow

Tenzin Gund-Morrow is a senior at Harvard College and student of Professor Sarah Lewis. He concentrates in social studies, focusing on the intersection of public safety and urban planning. Gund-Morrow is the first Black man ever elected President of the Institute of Politics, Harvard’s largest student organization. He has overseen the launch of a Global Affairs Program, Program on Environmental Politics, and a number of civic arts initiatives. He also sits on The Harvard Advocate’s Art Board, where he published Eval by Russell Craig in 2023, the first work by a formerly incarcerated artist published in the 160-year-old magazine’s history. Gund-Morrow is currently completing a thesis about the civic effects of housing insecurity on formerly incarcerated New Yorkers, researched during his Yale Law School Liman Fellowship at the Legal Action Center. Previously, he interned in the Biden-Harris White House, for Democratic House Leader Hakeem Jeffries, and at the Innocence Project.