Our Team

Aleta is the Senior Project Manager for the Connors Center. She has also been the Project Manager for the Women’s Hormones and Aging Research Program (WHARP) since 2015. She completed her MPH in Epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health, her MS in Conservation Biology & Sustainability from the University of Maryland-College Park, and her BA in Psychology from the University of Chicago. Before joining WHARP, Aleta worked for the Nurses’ Health Study at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and for the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center. She also completed a practicum at Slone Epidemiology Center for PRESTO, an Internet-based fertility cohort study. She is interested in studying women’s mental and reproductive health and investigating quality-of-life outcomes for women across the lifespan.

Natasha is a Project Manager for the Connors Center. Before joining the Connors Center in Summer 2018, she was the Center Administrator for the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness at HSPH. Natasha earned a BS in Public Health Sciences and an MPH in Community Health Education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her Connors Center work includes management of Connors Center communications, events, funding opportunities, and fellowship programs.

As part of her role as the Assistant Director of Finance and Administration of the Office of Academic Research, Tiffany manages financial and administrative responsibilities for multiple grant- and donor-funded initiatives within the Connors Center. Tiffany previously worked as a Finance Manager for Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Most recently she served as the Director of Finance and Administration at the BU School of Social Work.

Lissa serves as the fiscal administrator of the Connors Center. She joined the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in 1998 as the founding administrator in the Division of Women’s Health and has held subsequent administrative leadership positions in the Harvard Medical School Center of Excellence In Women’s Health, BWH Research Council, now known as the Brigham Research Institute, and the BWH Department of Pathology. In addition to financial management responsibilities, she leverages her considerable experience in sponsored research management to work with investigative groups on proposal development strategies to enhance the fundability of grant applications, with an emphasis on advising individual fellows and early stage faculty investigators in the development of a research program that is in alignment with their career goals and academic development plans.

Anna graduated from Tufts University in May 2021 with a BA in History. At Tufts, she conducted independent research at the McVey lab utilizing CRISPR-mediated mutagenesis to determine DNA repair protein function in Drosophila melanogaster. Anna previously worked at the Connors Center in 2020 as our Health Communications Intern and also interned in the Brigham’s Office of Strategic Communications. She enjoys dancing, playing piano, and eating cookies, and plans to pursue a career in medicine.