Zara Kulatunga ’25

As a recipient of the Samuel and Hilda Levitt Fellowship, Zara’s current academic research examines Western fertility tracking technologies and their associated notions of modernity, exploring how these reshape reproductive responsibility for Sri Lankan women. This summer, Zara engaged in a gender-focused analysis at the Clinton Health Access Initiative in Eswatini, working to optimize HPV vaccination strategies for young populations, and later returned to Sri Lanka to volunteer with the Sunera Foundation, where she facilitated workshops for individuals with disabilities, in hopes of promoting empowerment through creative expression. Previously, she was awarded the  Elisabeth Luce Moore Internship, which funded her sophomore summer internship at Kyoto University in Japan where she where she analyzed food literacy data from over 1,000 elementary students in Japan and Cambodia. On campus, Zara is a public