Olivia Chen

Peace Corps, Washington DC
2016

Olivia Chen is a rising senior in Dunster House studying Environmental Science and Public Policy with a secondary field in Economics. Born and raised in Hong Kong, she is passionate about sustainable urbanization of megacities around Asia and is working on a ​​thesis about Shanghai's policy on urban parks. On campus, she has served as the director of Habitat for Humanity, co-president of the Council on Business and the Environment, and an intern at the Harvard Center for International Development. ​She is a classical pianist and organist. Olivia is looking forward to working at the Peace Corps headquarters in D.C. and learning about data-driven impact evaluation and performance management in international development.