Lavinia Teodorescu

Lavinia is a senior at Harvard College pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Government and a concurrent Master's in Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. She is originally from Romania, where she grew up and developed her interest in security studies and Eastern European politics. At Harvard, Lavinia was the policy chair for a US Cyber Command project researching trends in Russian ransomware and hacktivism. She is interested in emerging disruptive technologies and innovative startups, and for that she is an Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellow at HBS. In the past, Lavinia was part of the founding team of the legal tech nonprofit ImmigrationHelp, where she helped low-income immigrants get free legal help. Outside college, Lavinia works in the education field at Volo Studere, a nonprofit that helps first-generation students from Eastern Europe pursue higher education in the United States. She studied abroad several times and spent much of her time at Harvard exploring Senegal, Denmark, and China.