I Gusti Ayu Mahatma Agung is originally from Bali. She is currently teaching Bahasa Indonesia at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University. She loves teaching because it gives her the opportunity to inspire students not only academically but also personally.

She earned her master’s degree in Linguistics at Udayana University in 2015. Prior to being awarded Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant program, she was working as a teacher at English First Denpasar. She hopes to become a university lecturer and continue her studies to get a doctoral degree abroad.