Elsie Tellier, a senior concentrating in Sociology, with a secondary field in Classical Civilizations, was recently profiled in The Harvard Gazette, discussing her struggle with cystic fibrosis.

"Michael Stein, co-founder and executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, taught Tellier in a Kennedy School course on global disability law and policy and serves as her faculty adviser.

'Having to engage with additional challenges has given Elsie experience and expertise in being a problem-solver, and a well-balanced perspective,' he said. 'Her experience here is both one of great community and great friends and institutions and mechanisms, but there are also times when someone like Elsie can feel isolated, with her perspectives unacknowledged. Still, she doesn’t come out of a negative experience with bitterness or sarcasm, but instead sees it as a learning experience.'"