Team

Eshaan is a senior at Harvard College studying environmental policy, focusing on critical theory of law and climate. He began training in Shotokan Karate as a freshman.

Jane is a senior studying History of Art and Architecture & Classics. She's practiced martial arts since she was 14, and she's been studying Shotokan Karate for 3 years.

Vazrik Chiloyan

Vazrik Chiloyan is a 4th degree black belt (Yondan) in Shotokan Karate from the Japan Karate Association (JKA) and holds JKA instructor, judge, and examiner licenses. Vazrik has studied Shotokan Karate for 16 years and has been teaching for 13 years. He has past experience teaching at many colleges in the Boston area, including MIT, Harvard, BU, Wellesley, Tufts, and Lesley University. He loves to apply a mathematical approach to structuring and teaching the beautiful art of Shotokan Karate to students.

Vazrik has competed in both local tournaments and at university Karate tournaments in Japan. He has helped create bridges between Boston’s Karate students and students from Oxford University and Japan University Karatedo Federation (JUKF). He has helped dozens of students reach their black belts. Several of his students have also achieved JKA Nidan and Sandan ranks and have become Karate instructors themselves. This year, several of Vazrik’s students are on the JKA US National team and will compete at the prestigious Gichin Funakoshi Shoto Cup in October 2024 in Japan. He believes in using Karate instruction as a means to help connect people around the world and to develop the values of leadership, resilience, and altruism.

Vazrik Chiloyan holds Bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and in Physics from MIT, as well as Master’s and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, studying nanoscale heat transfer.

Amandine Fromont

Amandine Fromont is a 3rd degree black belt (Sandan) in Shotokan Karate from the Japan Karate Association (JKA) and holds both JKA instructor and judge licenses. Amandine started her Karate journey in 2017 and has been teaching for 6 years. After graduating from Wellesley College, she helped found the Wellesley Karate Club, the very first competitive martial arts student organization at Wellesley. She taught at the Wellesley Karate Club as well as over Zoom, aiming to support Karateka who moved away from Boston.
As a Karateka, Amandine has competed in local university tournaments and traveled to Japan to train with Karate clubs at Japanese universities. She had the honor of competing in both kata and kumite as well as doing a team kata demonstration at the All-Japan University Karate Federation (JUKF) Tournament in the prestigious Nippon Budokan, in Tokyo. As an instructor, Amandine gives great attention to detail while maintaining a collaborative and encouraging environment to help students reach their fullest potential. Several of her Wellesley Karate students have now achieved their black belts.
Outside of Karate, Amandine is an environmental lawyer. In addition to her BA in Environmental Studies and English and Creative Writing from Wellesley, Amandine has just graduated from Georgetown Law with a Juris Doctor (JD)