Alumni Profiles

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

How a Harvard Hockey Legend Became a Needlepoint Artist

Joe Bertagna’s retirement project recreates figures from Boston sports history.

by Schuyler Velasco

Talking with Maureen McLane, author of "This Blue"

The poet and critic talks about her teaching, her writing, and her newest book, This Blue, a finalist for the National Book Award.

by Sophia Nguyen

The Mission Continues puts veterans to work on community projects nationwide

Post-9/11 veterans find new ways to serve at home.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Saxophonist John Payne teaches ensembles, jazz, and improvisation

Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.

by Craig Lambert

James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT

James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing

John Muir

A brief life of a Scottish-American conservationist

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Tara Altebrando is the coauthor of "Roomies"

Tara Altebrando ’92 is the coauthor of a timely book.

by Nu Xiong

Nina Lahoud rallies support for gender justice.

A Harvard alumna starts her own project aimed at global gender justice.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Philip W. Lovejoy named executive director of Harvard Alumni Association

Harvard Alumni Association director Philip W. Lovejoy

Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

by Craig Lambert

Clayton Christensen on disruptive innovation

Innovation guru Clayton Christensen on spreading his gospel, the Gospel, and how to win with the electric car

by Craig Lambert