Saumya Varma ’18 has led the Calcutta Foundation through the pandemic and West Bengal’s largest storm in a century, helping provide relief to over 100,000 people in India.
The higher education leader, who served most recently as Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer at Amherst College, has already joined the Haverford College community working part time effective July 1. He starts full-time Aug. 1.
The English major’s thesis investigates what makes Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen: An American Lyric” such a formative reading experience and temporally distinctive work of poetry.