Alumni Profiles

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

Landscape Architect Julie Bargmann Transforming Forgotten Urban Sites

Julie Bargmann and her D.I.R.T. Studio give new life to abandoned mines, car plants, and more.

by Claire Zulkey

Brief life of Henry Knowles Beecher, anesthetist and late-blooming ethicist

Brief life of a late-blooming ethicist: 1904-1976

by Jack El-Hai

Justice Stephen Breyer is profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The optimistic project of Justice Stephen Breyer

by Lincoln Caplan

Documentarian Kent Garrett reflects on how “Black Journal” broke down barriers

How Black Journal raised the country's consciousness, and opened Kent Garrett's eyes to television's potential

by Sophia Nguyen

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The future of work and the sharing economy

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature

Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Cerise Lim Jacobs's otherworldly operas

In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.

by Sophia Nguyen

Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons

A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore

by Olivia Schwob

The many roles of Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela

Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela

by Nell Porter-Brown

Meet Heather Henriksen, director of the Harvard Office for Sustainability

Harvard’s chief sustainability officer on scaling up green solutions while scaling back its environmental footprint

by Lydialyle Gibson