Isabelle Ravanas

Hometown and Country:

Chicago, US & Marseille, France

Extracurricular Interests:

Harvard College Consulting Group, French Club, Harvard Square Homeless Shelter, Candela (not as much as I wish!)

Favorite place in Harvard Square?

Jefe's, Bluestone, Flour

What can FIPpers talk to you about?

Whatever their hearts desire- anything from sticking to who you want to be, accepting that that might change, to frustrations with America and having difficulties connecting to your culture on campus, to making priorities and dealing with tough family situations. But also relationships and social pressures and food and fashion and all of that loveliness.

Languages Spoken:

French, English (Mid Japanese, Spanish, Beginner Arabic, Esperanto)

Isabelle is a rising sophomore in Currier (show me a French person who didn’t get quadded) hoping to concentrate in Social Studies and Human Evolutionary Biology with a citation in Arabic (and Japanese if she can squeeze it in). She was raised in the US in a bi-cultural Franco-American family and grew up spending her summers on her grandpa’s peach farm in the South of France and then later Sciences Po Paris and Reims. Last summer she worked in Japan for an ed-tech startup while living on a commune and this summer she’ll be living and studying at a monastery in Nepal. In her free time you’ll find Isabelle watercolor painting, lying in the sun, learning Esperanto, working on her consulting slides, reading the Economist, and working on not taking herself too seriously. She’s so excited to meet all the FIPpers and side-questing to the max!