Kimberly Bennett

Kimberly is a PhD Candidate in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program, focusing on research drug delivery strategies for childhood brain tumors. She grew up low-income in the Mojave Desert in California and was the first in her family to go to college, completing her B.S. in Bioengineering at the University of California, Riverside in 2021. Upon coming MIT, she recognized the need for a graduate first-gen/low-income community, leading to her becoming a co-founder and co-president of the Graduate First-Generation Low-Income group at MIT (GFLI@MIT). Kimberly has been recognized as an NSF GRFP, Ford Foundation, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellow. Kimberly is dedicated to improving the representation of first-gen/low-income students in academia and making the path to higher education more accessible.