Eric Hysen is a junior computer science concentrator in Mather House from Silver Spring, Maryland. He’s lived in Maryland his entire life, but his family comes from New York, giving him ties to NY and a love of New York sports teams that aren’t the Yankees. He has a younger brother Dylan, a junior in high school.
At Harvard, Eric’s been active in the UC, College Democrats, and Institute of Politics since his freshman year. He’s a proud resident of Mather House, and an active participant at Mather House Council.
Wherever possible, Eric’s worked to bridge his interests in government and the internet to help people make a difference at all levels. Last summer, he worked in Google’s DC office on engineering projects that help connect people to their governments, and the summer after his freshman year he worked on the Obama campaign and created a site for the IOP that allowed college students across the country to participate in a dialogue about the 2008 elections. On the UC, he’s led efforts to improve the College’s online events calendar and helped bring the UC’s website into the 21st century.
When he’s not working on UC projects or slaving away on a problem set, Eric can usually be found watching TV shows like 30 Rock or Family Guy, playing Wii with his roommates, or attending Mather’s legendary Happy Hours.
Johnny Bowman is a junior sociology concentrator from Los Angeles who’s still thinking about nabbing that secondary in Spanish. He has a twin sister Courtney who lives in Winthrop and three younger brothers, Jesse, Alec, and Nicky whose ages range from 6 to 16. Courtney just helped write a book with the Lampoon called Nightlight (it’s a parody of Twilight) and Johnny highly recommends you go buy it.
Outside of the Undergraduate Council, Johnny’s main activities at Harvard have been researching Harvard’s budget cuts and organizing for worker’s rights with the Student Labor Action Movement. He also gives tours of Harvard with the Crimson Key Society and publicizes HoCo events with the best of ‘em.
Johnny has worked the last two summers for labor unions- first in LA working for hotel housekeepers and then in Mexico City working principally for the National Union of Metal, Steel and Allied Workers. He strongly believes that transparency and respect are the bedrock of community, and plans on advocating for low-wage workers for a long long time.
Johnny also teaches English at ASPIRA, a Latino youth center in East Boston, once a week. And when he finishes all of his homework for his course on Spike Lee movies, he writes limericks or visits TheOnion.com for a cheap laugh.
