Yoseph Boku

Yoseph Boku grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, before immigrating to the United States as a child and settling in Alexandria, Virginia. He attended Harvard College, where he lived in Kirkland House and concentrated in Molecular and Cellular Biology. He went on to Harvard Medical School, where he earned his M.D. and served as president of his class. He is now an Internal Medicine Resident at Massachusetts General Hospital. Yoseph is especially passionate about mentoring and supporting students who are low-income or the first in their families to attend college. He and his tuxedo cat, Figgy, are excited to return to Kirkland House for a fifth year.