MOSAIC + TEAM
Meet the faces behind Mosaic! We are a team dedicated to supporting students and peer-to-peer learning. Learn about us below :)
FALL 2025 - SPRING 2026 MOSAIC LEADERS
MARINA WATANABE (SHE/HER)
Associate Director, Mosaic
Marina Watanabe, PhD is the Associate Director of Mosaic. She is passionate about making entrepreneurship accessible and empowering student innovators to enact positive change.
Before joining Northeastern, Marina was the Creativity and Entrepreneurship Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Lemann Program on Creativity and Entrepreneurship. She helped design and implement student startup incubators, pitch competitions, and entrepreneurship course curricula. Additionally, she was an Education Innovation Fellow with the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, where she mentored and distributed funding to Harvard and MIT startup teams working to improve the field of education.
Marina earned her PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard University. Her graduate research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital focused on discovering novel combination therapies in the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer. When not on campus, she can be found volunteering with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) to advance cancer legislation, officiating weddings, choreographing comical dance routines, trying out whimsical exercise classes, and working toward her next storytelling event.
MEGHA VARGHESE (SHE/HER)
Student Leadership Development Associate
Megha Varghese graduated from Northeastern in Spring 2023 with a combined Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences and Psychology. Being a part of one of Mosaic's organizations, ViTAL, and working as a medical assistant and scribe during her co-ops sparked her interest in healthcare innovation. In ViTAL, she started as a marketing lead and eventually became the director of operations and in her senior year, the co-executive director. She expanded her support for Mosaic to all its organizations as the Mosaic Fellow last year and is excited to continue doing so with a focus on student leadership development!
When Megha isn't on campus, you can find her doing yoga, attempting to learn Spanish, exploring new Boston cafes (send recommendations her way or grab a coffee/matcha with her!), or performing at open mics!
