Alumni Profiles

Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.

Meet the Harvard Alumni Association’s New President

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”

Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.

by Jennifer Gersten

Alec Karakatsanis fights for criminal-justice reform in the U.S. legal system

Alec Karakatsanis puts “human caging” and “wealth-based detention” in America on trial.

by Michael Zuckerman

Polaroid photographer and "The B-Side" subject Elsa Dorfman, profiled

Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.

by Sophia Nguyen

Brief life of Carl Thorne-Thomsen, Vietnam veteran from Harvard

Brief life of a man of principle: 1946-1967

by Bonnie Docherty

Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"

The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.

by Max Suechting

Malka Older’s global sci-fi

Sci-fi meets the political thriller.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard alumnus James Coe is a Hudson Valley painter and bird artist

Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley

by Nell Porter-Brown

The role of a “Posse” in higher education

Harvard alumna Debbie Bial's Posse Foundation and a “new national leadership pipeline”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Slow and Steady Wins the Pulitzer

David Fahrenthold ’00 will continue to hold President Trump accountable. 

by Oset Babür

“Sink into it": ballet choreographer Claudia Schreier, profiled

A choreographer's career, taking shape

by Sophia Nguyen