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

A New Face of American Evangelicalism

Walter Kim aims for “a way forward even within difference.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Oldest and First

Bertram A. “Bert” Huberman ’44 and Ruth Samuels Villalovos ’49 led the alumni parade.

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Harvard Alumni Day Speaker Announced

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly will address alumni June 2.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Stories of a Not-So-Distant War

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

by Bailey Trela

“Something Is Very Broken”

Boston Area Gleaners fights hunger from the ground up.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Building a Better World

MASS Design’s healing architecture

by Mark Travis

Archibald Henry Grimke

Brief life of a Black Harvard Law School graduate: 1849-1930

by Kerri K. Greenidge

Comedy with a Conscience

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

by Craig Lambert

A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court

Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.

by David L. Tannenwald