Alumni Profiles

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

A man in a suit speaks at a podium.

Meet the Harvard Alumni Association’s New President

David Battat promotes alumni engagement.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Jonathan Gruber, the man behind the models of the health insurance mandate

Jonathan Gruber crunches the numbers on healthcare reform

Grover Norquist, Harvard alumnus and antitax crusader, profiled

A Boston Globe profile of the Harvard alumnus and antitax crusader

Anthony Malkin ’84 has transformed the Empire State Building into a model of “green” engineering.

Anthony Malkin the Empire State Building's green retrofit for energy efficiency

How Anthony Malkin ’84 engineered the largest “green” retrofit ever

by Jonathan Shaw

The junior senator from Minnesota, in his Capitol Hill office

Al Franken, satirist and statesman, profiled

The satirist and comedian Al Franken has a new role: statesman.

by Jesse Kornbluth

Anthony Amore at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with empty frames that held venerable paintings before the 1990 theft

Art Security Expert Anthony Amore on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

A new book shatters myths about art theft.

by David Menconi

Father Paul O'Brien leads a thriving Catholic parish in Lawrence, Massachusetts

Paul O’Brien’s tough ministry in Lawrence, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Eric Nelson

Government professor Eric Nelson studies political theory

Profile of a Harvard government professor and political theory scholar

by Craig Lambert

David Kwong shuffles the cards. Behind him, a video gives a closer look at his hands.

David Kwong does magic and builds crossword puzzles

David Kwong has a trick that’s all his own.

by Qichen Zhang

Dressed for duty

"Flying Santa" Edward Rowe Snow delivered gifts to lighthouse children

Brief life of a maritime original: 1902-1982

by Sara Hoagland Hunter

Happily at home: Brian Buckley, Katherine Hunter, and their children in the family’s poetry bookstore in Boulder.

Brian Buckley ’90 runs the Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café

The Innisfree Poetry Bookstore and Café in Boulder, Colorado, sells beverages, pastries, and poetry—nothing else.