Books and e-publications

Hazel Law (16-17)

Hazel sought to confront girls’ perception of their bodies by producing a book on the topic. She conducted numerous interviews with adolescent and college-age women on the topic. Her book, framed within Hazel’s letter to a future daughter, is titled Size N/A: Stories of the Female Body, is available on Amazon.


Cynthia Phan (18-19)

Cynthia wrote a book featuring the stories of unhoused Bostonians, based on extensive interviews she conducted in the city.



MaiAnh Tran (21-22)

MaiAnh wrote a book that explores how immigrant restaurateurs balance a desire to preserve their original cultures with the need to be fiscally viable.


Nathan (Nate) Krieger (15-16) Nate wrote a fiction book modeled on a study of myth and hero stories: All the Way There: A Hero’s Journey in 11 Parts.

Emma Berens (18-19)

Emma wrote a book about the lessons learned about the effectiveness of protests/marches as a catalyst for change.


Diana Diep (21-22)

Incorporating numerous photographs that she took around the city of Boston, Diana created a photography book about Boston’s neighborhoods.


Olivia Zorn (14-15)

After conducting a series of workshops to combat bias against abstract and conceptual art, Olivia then created a book about combating and addressing this bias.


Zoë Pelletier (16-17)

Zoë wrote a book Simply Sourced: Using Local Ingredients to Feed Your Creativity. The book is a cookbook arranged by locally-available fruits and vegetables with multiple possibilities for preparing dishes using these ingredients. Zoe invented and tested each of the recipes over many months before including them in the book.


Kathleen (Katie) Rouse (21-22)

Katie produced a manuscript for a book that explores how gender-defined pathways and expectations contribute to male dominance in the national security fields within the United States.


Isabelle (Izzy) Goodrich (20-21)

Izzy created a digital anthology featuring interviews and performances from Boston Poets, which explores how poetry has functioned in social movements.


JD Moore (19-20)

JD wrote a book manuscript documenting the correlation of art theft and cultural supremacy as well as the responsibility of art collectors and museums in returning that art today


Diego Rao (17-18)

Driven by his extensive research into the history of the cookie amid the events of world history, Diego wrote a history/cookbook about the evolution of the cookie


Lily Hanlon (19-20)

Lily wrote a book manuscript describing how personal correspondence between soldiers and their families can add to our understanding about the reality of war based on her own family’s story in two World Wars.