Aldo is running the Boston Marathon this April for charity! Please visit POCsOnSkis.com to learn more about supporting his K-12 students.
Aldo Aragon
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About Aldo (2024-2025):
Aldo is currently a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, one of Harvard University’s research facilities. In the summer, he is a Teaching Assistant at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. In the winter, he volunteers to teach K-12 students how to ski at YES, a non-profit in Boston.
As a 2025 LEDA Legal Scholar, he will apply to law school this upcoming fall.
About Aldo (2020 - 2024):
Aldo holds an A.B. cum laude from Harvard College. He interned for a federal judge and for a U.S. senator as a college student, and was shortlisted to deliver Harvard’s 2024 undergraduate commencement address.
As a scholar of intellectual history and Indigenous history during college, Aldo traveled 20,000+ miles to/from Oceania while writing his undergraduate thesis on the Pacific Islands region for the Harvard History Department. (Final grade: magna cum laude)
About Aldo (Pre-2020):
Aldo was born and raised in New York City and attended high school in Indiana, the Hoosier State.
2024-2025 ~ Post-Baccalaureate
Boston Marathon Charity Runner - Help Me Reach My Fundraising Goal And Support My K-12 Ski Instructees
Pre-Law Scholar at LEDA Legal
Alumni Profile: "Aldo Aragon '24." Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University
2025 | MA [LINK TBD]
Post-Baccalaureate Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks
2024-25 | D.C.
Student Curator, "Re-Envisioning Eliot's Entryways," Eliot House at Harvard College
2024-25 | MA
Teaching Assistant, Renewing Indigenous Economies Project at Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Leading my students on a trip to Stanford's Native American Cultural Center, while serving as a teaching assistant for the Hoover Institution's Indigenous Students Seminar. (2024)
2020-24 ~ Harvard College
The 373rd Annual Commencement at Harvard University
Senior Honors Thesis, Harvard Department of History
Richard M. Cashin Fund Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
20,000+ miles traveled between the U.S. and the South Pacific!
Intern for the Senior United States Senator from Indiana
2023 | D.C.
Alumni Profile: "Five Questions With Aldo Aragon." Indianapolis Public Schools
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
Fifth-year funnel cake maker at Indiana State Fair
Undergraduate Judicial Intern at the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Helped return $10K to a defrauded Bay State consumer (see internal memo from Mass. Attorney General's office)
Receiving my A.B. degree in History cum laude during Harvard University's 373rd Annual Commencement. (2024)
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 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)
2016-2020 ~ Indiana, the Hoosier State
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.
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.
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.
Enumerator for the 2020 United States Census
Letter of testament to character, addressed to the Harvard College admissions committee
Speaking on the floors of the Indiana legislature as a Hoosier high school student. (2019)
Making funnel cakes with coworkers at the Indiana State Fair. (Late 2010s/Early 2020s)
Pre-2016 ~ New York City
New York City Department of Education
Pre-2016 | K-8, G&T (Exam-Based) | NY
New York City Health + Hospitals
I entered the world at 9.9lbs (ouch)
2002 | NY
Aldo's Annual Challenges
2024 - Learn to lifeguard + SCUBA dive
i am now Red Cross and PADI certified
🛟 + 🤿
2026 - Learn to...
beekeep?
fly a plane?
play golf?
🐝 or 🛩️ or ⛳?
aragonable.com/Photo
Aldo's selected photography can be seen at aragonable.com/Photo
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Aldo's photography, organized by region
I enjoy photographing our beautiful world. Below are some photographic collections, organized by region, that you might find of interest.
✈️ + 🌏
Vanuatu, Fiji, New Zealand, and the Hawaiian archipelago
One Picture, Sixty-Three Counties: Visiting Every County in NYS (+ United States Military Academy)
Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah
coming soon
Photos from rural, urban, coastal, and mountainous New England (sunny / foggy / snowy conditions)
Aldo and the Art of the Americas
I enjoy visiting art institutions located throughout the Americas. My professional foray into the art world began with this Harvard Art Museums mock exhibition I curated under the tutelage of two museum curators (while an undergraduate at Harvard).
🖼️ + 🎨 + 🏛️
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