Aldo D. Aragon

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The 373rd Annual Commencement at Harvard University
Student Curator, "Re-Envisioning Eliot's Entryways," Eliot House at Harvard College
Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard Department of History
Richard M. Cashin Fund Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Intern for the Senior United States Senator from Indiana
2023 | DC
Renewing Indigenous Economies Project at Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Sole Spanish-speaking translator for the City of Boston Election Department at City Hall
2021-23 | MA
Reading Group w/ Professor Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School
Undergraduate Judicial Intern at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
SEO Law Catalyst (Pre-Law) Scholar, Class of 2022 (I was the youngest selected, a sophomore, in a. cohort of seniors)
2022 | NY
Helped return $10K to a defrauded Bay State consumer (see internal memo from Mass. Attorney General's office)
Wrapping up my summer as an undergraduate judicial intern back in my hometown of New York City, where I was born and raised. (2022)
Overlooking Harvard Yard on the last day of my freshman year, outside the room formerly occupied by Du Bois, Class of 1898, as one of four Indiana early action admits to the Class of 2024. (2021)

Community Interests and Passions

I am a volunteer ski instructor and help teach K-12 minority youth in Boston how to ski. I aim to help diversify the slopes and the snowsports industry, one run at a time.

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I enjoy American art history and viewing curated exhibitions. I have even curated a number of my own around Harvard - including this mock-up for a graded seminar led by a Harvard Art Museums curator.

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2016-2020 - Indiana

Thank you letter to the United States Senate and to the Indiana Bar Foundation re: nomination to the Senate Youth Program
"The Significance of Timbs v. Indiana (2019) on American Jurisprudence" - full-ride winning essay
Indiana Senate Bill 464 signing ceremony at Indiana Governor's Office

Now, school counselors can serve as in loco parentis signatories for at-risk Indiana youth seeking ID cards. I testified in committee to lawmakers; see news article below.
Reports Submitted to the Indiana General Assembly

As a two-term chair of the authorized-by-statute Indiana Legislative Youth Advisory Council, I was in charge of submitting reports to state lawmakers from 2018 through 2020.

Pre-2016 - New York City

New York City Department of Education
Pre-2016 | K-8, G&T (Exam-Based) | NY
Speaking on the floors of the Indiana legislature as a Hoosier high school student. (2019)