Alumni Profiles

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

Preserving the History of Jim Crow Era Safe Havens

Architectural historian Catherine Zipf is building a database of Green Book sites.  

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard alumni take on legalizing pot in Mexico

A new lead on stemming drug-related violence in Mexico

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ruth Kevess-Cohen is boosting Esperanto online.

Ruth Kevess-Cohen ’78 is boosting the international language online.

by Olivia Campbell

Dick Bolles continues to improve “What Color Is Your Parachute?”

Job counselor Dick Bolles ’50 keeps “chugging away.”

by Bailey Trela

Engineering the future of Harvard’s SEAS

SEAS dean Frank Doyle shares insights.

by Jonathan Shaw , John S. Rosenberg

Judge Richard Posner, profiled by Lincoln Caplan

The double life of Richard Posner, America’s most contentious legal reformer

by Lincoln Caplan

James O’Connell of HMS and Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program

James O’Connell has spent 30 years caring for the homeless.

Daniel Aaron is profiled by Christoph Irmscher

Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.

by Christoph Irmscher

Brief life of scientific sleuth Joseph T. Walker, by Thomas W. Walker

Brief life of a scientific sleuth: 1908-1952

by Thomas W. Walker

Adam Freudenheim brings world literature to young Anglophones

A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield