Annual Election of Overseers and Haa Directors

This year's candidates for Overseer and Harvard Alumni Association elected director have been chosen.

This spring, alumni can choose five new Harvard Overseers and six new directors for the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) board. Ballots will be mailed out by April 1 and are due back in Cambridge by noon on May 21 to be counted. Election results will be announced at the HAA’s annual meeting on May 27, on the afternoon of Commencement day. All holders of Harvard degrees, except Corporation members and officers of instruction and government, are entitled to vote for Overseer candidates. The election for HAA directors is open to all Harvard degree-holders.

 

For Overseer (six-year term), the candidates are:

Cheryl Dorsey ’85, M.D. ’91, M.P.P. ’92, New York City. President, Echoing Green.

Joseph Fuller ’79, M.B.A. ’81, Cambridge. Cofounder, vice chairman, and CEO, Monitor Group.

David Heyman ’83, London, film producer.

Walter Isaacson ’74, Washington, D.C. CEO, The Aspen Institute.

Nicholas Kristof ’82, New York City. Columnist, the New York Times.

Karen Nelson Moore ’70, J.D. ’73, Cleveland. U.S. Circuit judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Diana Nelson ’84, San Francisco. Director, Carlson Companies, Inc.

David Tang ’75, Seattle. Managing Partner, Asia K&L Gates.

 

For Elected Director (three-year term), the candidates are:

Kenneth Bartels ’73, M.B.A. ’76, New York City. President and CEO, Paxton Properties, Inc.

Roger Fairfax Jr. ’94, J.D. ’98, Washington, D.C. Law professor, George Washington University Law School.

Mark Fusco ’83, M.B.A. ’90. Westwood, Massachusetts. CEO, Aspen Tech. 

Lindsay Hyde ’04, Boston. Founder and president, Strong Women, Strong Girls.

M. Margaret Kemeny ’68, New York City. Professor of surgery, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, chief of surgical oncology, and director of the Queens Cancer Center.

George Newhouse Jr. ’76, Los Angeles.Partner, Brown, White & Newhouse, LLP.

Reynaldo Valencia, J.D. ’90, San Antonio. Associate dean for administration and finance; professor of corporate and securities law, St. Mary’s University School of Law.

Victoria Wells Wulsin ’75, M.P.H. ’82, D.P.H. ’85, Cincinnati. Physician, Mid-City Pediatrics.

Irene Wu ’91, Washington, D.C. Director of international research, U.S. Federal Communications Commission; adjunct professor, Georgetown University.

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