Alumni Profiles

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

A woman with long hair leans on a table, looking out a large window with rain-streaked glass.

A Harvard Economist Probes the Affordable Housing Crisis

From understanding gender pay gaps to the housing crisis, Rebecca Diamond’s research aims to improve lives.

by Jonathan Shaw

Philip W. Lovejoy

Philip W. Lovejoy named executive director of Harvard Alumni Association

Harvard Alumni Association director Philip W. Lovejoy

Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, today, with its Roman Catholic churches

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

In his Cambridge studio, Childs makes about six violins a year.

Bob Childs makes world-class violins

Bob Childs makes world-class violins.

by Laura Levis

Lissa Young fosters open discussions about love and sexuality during a psychology class for freshmen cadets at West Point.

Lissa Young: back at West Point, after Don't Ask, Don't Tell ended her career

An alumna chooses “the harder right.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Justin Kaplan at home

A tribute to Justin Kaplan

In tribute to an old friend

The plate-glass windows in Avis Buchanan’s downtown Washington, D.C., office neatly frame the U.S. Archives building. “It’s the repository of our Constitution," she says. "The Sixth Amendment gives us our existence and we use the Fourth and Fifth and Sixth in our fight on behalf of our clients every day.”

Profile of Avis Buchanan, director of the D.C. Public Defender Service

A profile of Avis Buchanan, director of the D.C. Public Defender Service

by Nell Porter-Brown

Moulton (at right) leads a mission in Najaf.

Seth Moulton, Harvard graduate and former Marine, is profiled

A profile of former Marine Seth Moulton ’01, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’11

by Michael Zuckerman

Murray in 1962

Brief life of psychologist Henry A. Murray, by Marshall Getz

Brief life of a personality psychologist: 1893-1988

by Marshall J. Getz

The Schachters with children they have helped in Chennai

Michael and Allie Schachter help child victims of human trafficking in India

An ’09 couple, Michael and Allie Schachter, help child victims of human trafficking in India.

by Nu Xiong