Javi A. (IN A NUTSHELL)

Javi recently graduated magna cum laude with highest honors in Philosophy from Harvard College, where he also minored in English. On campus, he was a member of the Fiction Board of the Harvard Advocate, the college’s literary and arts magazine, and was been awarded the Ecker Short Story Prize and the Charles Edmund Horman Prize for his short fiction. A native Spanish-speaker and lover of languages, Javi has studied French, Italian, Portuguese, and Latin. He worked as a research partner on a project to develop a novel speech recognition system for the Italian language in association with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. Outside the classroom, Javi is passionate about film, having interned at movie studios in Los Angeles. He co-wrote a Cinema Studies textbook, and has been invited to give lectures and presentations on film. In high school, he spent a summer in Paris researching the history of French cinema at the Cinematheque Française for a book. Javi subsequently won the academic awards for English, French, and Cinema Studies, along with the Blanche Nelson Boyle Award for academic excellence and social contribution. Additionally, Javi is a licensed pilot with 300 hours of flight experience. He has flown a variety of different aircraft ranging from gliders to jets. Javi has used aviation as a way to give back to the community, volunteering for the organizations Wings of Rescue and Angel Flight West, which use private aviation to achieve humanitarian and medical ends. Above all, Javi is eager to help students reach their academic and intellectual goals by inspiring a deep passion for learning, whatever the subject may be.