T. Donovan Keene Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

New York, New York, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Provide comprehensive college admissions support to 20+ students, including their personal statement, activities, resume, recommendation letters, and supplemental essays.
• Strengthen students' extracurricular profiles via internships, competitions, leadership positions, research opportunities, summer programs, and volunteer roles specific to their passions.
• Design balanced college lists (reach, target, and safety), including individualized strategies for Early Action/Early Decision, Regular Decision, and deferrals/waitlists.
• Build relationships with students from 6th grade to transfer applicants, parents, Admissions Officers, interviewers, and secondary school administrators.

Business Bay, Dubai, AE

• Supported 40+ international applicants to top U.S. (e.g., Harvard, Stanford, MIT, etc.) and UK (e.g., Oxbridge, LSE, Imperial College London, etc.) universities via end-to-end admissions consulting.
• Prepared applicants to craft compelling personal statements, Statements of Purpose (SOPs), and application narratives via extensive brainstorming and essay revisions for 10–12 universities.
• Conducted in-depth, school-specific mock interviews using actual Ivy League, Oxbridge, MBB, and MAMAA interview questions.
• Improved cross-cultural fluency to communicate with diverse populations (e.g., race, religion, gender expression, etc.) in different geographical regions (10+ countries).

• Coached 8th grade students through rising seniors via Candidacy Development and Application Support individualized programming.
• Introduced career aptitude tests, personality quizzes, and psychometrics to help students hone their passions, purpose, intellectual interests, and intrinsic motivation.
• Addressed students' and parents' inquiries and concerns promptly via emotionally intelligent, effective communication.

London, England, GB

• Mentored 15+ international applicants to top global universities with >80% Ivy League and >75% Oxbridge acceptance rates.
• Facilitated creation of original passion projects (e.g., businesses, nonprofits, portfolios, etc.) combining students' intellectual interests, personal strengths, and philanthropy.
• Guided students’ applications to 15–20 colleges, including standardized test prep, the Common/Coalition Application, and school-specific essays.
• Organized virtual (e.g., webinars, online conferences, etc.) and in-person (e.g., information sessions, campus tours, etc.) events for applicants and prospective students.

Los Angeles, CA, US

• Chosen as one of ten for the highly competitive Writing for Television program (half-hour comedy)
• Chosen as one of ten for the highly competitive Writing for Late Night Comedy program
• Developed two original half-hour pilots and one half-hour spec script (What We Do in the Shadows)
• Chosen as one of six winners among 142 submissions in a professional writing competition

• Chosen as one of six Harvard affiliates for a highly selective program for new voices in entertainment
• Developed an original half-hour pilot and one half-hour spec script (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Closed print advertising and sponsorship deals for cash and payment-in-kind ($91,350 in eight-week competitive entry process, $200,000+ total)
• Generated leads by writing 5000+ cold emails and making 250+ cold calls weekly to targeted industries
• Tripled paid subscribership via local circulation initiatives and collaboration with The New Yorker
• Contributed written pieces, illustrations, and advertising revenue to bi-monthly publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Allston, MA, US

Hartford, Connecticut, US

• Coached diverse, at-risk individuals towards fulfilling their goals via active listening and motivational interviewing
• Referred recoverees to community resources and social services including mental health treatment, housing, professional and educational development, welfare programs, etc.

US

Boston, MA, US

San Francisco, California, US

• Sold and launched local establishments on food take-out platform, resulting in 3x more business than UberEats
• Expanded app to multiple university campuses including Harvard, Dartmouth, and Northeastern
• Brought an average of 2,000 new customers to each restaurant, producing an additional $12,000+ of incremental sales per month for partnered institutions
• Evaluated KPIs in direct collaboration with Head of Sales

Washington, DC, US

• Assisted constituents across the 39 cities of MA-6, managing several ongoing cases simultaneously
• Contributed to research and memo writing, event planning and logistics, and other administrative tasks

Cambridge, MA, US

• Led Boston voter registration and mobilization drives in collaboration with Students Taking on Poverty and the Phillips Brooks House Association
• Facilitated low-SES citizens' political participation by helping them complete voter registration forms
• Engaged issues of importance to the Boston community via grassroots activism and lobbying

US

• Planned, coordinated, and carried out campaign activities and issues advocacy
• Organized phone banks, canvasses, and GOTV efforts in coordination with 20+ candidates' campaigns
• Advocated for 10+ bills during bi-annual lobbying day at the Massachusetts State House

Charlottesville, VA, US

• Reestablished Gamma-Eta chapter at Harvard University after 81-year absence
• Developed strategic recruiting program resulting in 75+ members
• Organized philanthropy events to surpass the chapter's collective goal of 600 community service hours

Cambridge, MA, US

• Examined the impacts of civic participation, public deliberation, and transparency upon public and private governance
• Researched and wrote 25+ cases of participatory democracy for participedia.net

Sarasota, Florida, US

• Built four-year project in the nascent field of forensic entomotoxicology, improving post-mortem interval estimations by two weeks and the legal admissibility of forensic evidence
• Chosen as one of 240 in the U.S. to present at the 2013 Junior Science and Humanities Symposium
• Chosen as one of 25 in Florida to present at the Junior Science, Engineering and Humanities Symposium
• Assisted autopsies and research in forensic anthropology as an intern at the District 20 ME
• Learned mass spectrometry techniques in order to use forensic toxicology measures at the UF Maples Center for Forensic Medicine
• Collaborated on casework for a year with mentor District 12 Chief ME

B.A., Government With A Secondary In Psychology

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Screenwriting

Cross-Registered Undergraduate

Tuck Business Bridge Program

Pembroke-King'S Programme, Criminology

Hbx Core: Credential Of Readiness

Valedictorian