Aldo holds a History A.B. cum laude from Harvard University, where he was one of less than eight students shortlisted to deliver the 2024 undergraduate commencement address. Both a born-and-raised New Yorker and an adopted Hoosier, Aldo has interned for a federal judge at SDNY and for the senior U.S. senator from Indiana. As a scholar of intellectual history and Indigenous history, Aldo traveled 20,000+ miles to/from Oceania and the Pacific Islands while writing his magna cum laude undergraduate thesis.
Aldo currently serves as a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, a pre-eminent Pre-Columbian research institution located in the nation's capital. He also holds affiliations with the Renewing Indigenous Economies Project at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
2024-Present ~ Post-Baccalaureate
Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks
2024 - Present | DC
Renewing Indigenous Economies Project at Hoover Institution, Stanford University
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.
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.