Emma Lind | Harvard Magazine

2006-2007

Undergraduate Columns

Though I have two years left before I bid farewell to Harvard, I stayed through Commencement this past June to write for the Crimson and…

Culture(less) Club

During the year and a half I have spent as a student at Harvard, I’ve been befuddled by tRNA in a Life Sciences 1a lecture, experienced…

A Crutch or an Anchor?

Stumbling along Mount Auburn Street on my way to my Social Studies 10 lecture, I barely manage to juggle Wealth of Nations, this…

Emma Lind ’09 graduated cum laude with a degree in Postcolonial History and Literature. After graduation, she spent two years teaching high-school mathematics on the Arkansas side of the Mississippi Delta as a Teach For America corps member. She was recognized by the state of Arkansas for leading the classroom with the highest percentile gains in Northeastern Arkansas and fourth-highest percentile gains in all of Arkansas from 2010-2011 on the state Algebra I exam. From 2009 to 2011, she closed the score gap between her under-resourced school district and the highest-scoring Arkansas high school by 62 percent on the Algebra I state assessment.

Lind currently teaches Algebra I and II at Achievement First Brooklyn High School in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

Her work as a staff editorialist and Editorial Chair of The Harvard Crimson can be found here.
Her profile as an alumna of the History and Literaure program can be found here.