Alumni Profiles
Spotlight stories on alumni who are leading, innovating, and making a difference.
Mount Vernon, Historic Preservation, and American Politics
Anne Neal Petri promotes George Washington and historic literacy.
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.
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
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
A Wide Receiver on the Basketball Court
Chris Ledlum ’23 makes his mark on the hardcourt.
Flying Squirrel
Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.
When Children Fall Ill
“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”
We Remember WWI
Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I, revisited this Veterans Day