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

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.

Salad restaurateur Erin Wade ’03 shares photos and two recipes

Erin Wade's special dressing recipes are sure to whet your appetite.

Chung To quit Wall Street to sponsor schooling for China's AIDS orphans

Chung To quit Wall Street to sponsor schooling for 
China’s "blood orphans."

by Marilyn Chase

Muralist David Fichter

David Fichter paints outdoor murals that teem with life.

Singer-cardiologist Suzie Brown

Singer-songwriter Suzie Brown, a cardiologist by training, has just released her first CD.

by Kevin Hartnett

Profile of Janny Scott, author of "A Singular Woman"

Janny Scott '77 introduces Barack Obama's mother to a wider audience.

by Maya E. Shwayder

Carl Schoonover and "Portraits of the Mind" merge science and aesthetics

Carl Schoonover ’06 merges science and aesthetics.

by Sarah Zhang

Peter Der Manuelian is Harvard's resident Egyptologist

Meet Harvard's resident Egyptologist.

Conductor Sarah Hicks moves easily between pops and classics

Conductor Sarah Hicks spans Prokofiev and the Police.

by David Menconi