Alumni

Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.

The Tragic Wartime Life of a Promising Black Harvard Scholar

A new book sheds light on Reed Peggram.

by Ethelene Whitmire

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

Composer Robert Kyr embraces love, peace, and nature.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The future of work and the sharing economy

Attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan takes on the app economy.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Cerise Lim Jacobs's otherworldly operas

In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.

by Sophia Nguyen

Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons

A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore

by Olivia Schwob

The many roles of Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela

Latino-American journalist Julio Ricardo Varela

by Nell Porter-Brown

John Adams as a Harvard student, by Richard Alan Ryerson

What he learned and what he made of it

by Richard Alan Ryerson

Brief life of Alan Seeger, poet and soldier in World War I

Brief live of a premonitory poet: 1888-1916

by Dick Friedman

Paul Zeitz established the math-focused Proof School in San Francisco

A private San Francisco middle school and high school nurture a passion for numbers.

by Violet Baron

George Bucknam Dorr

A brief life of a persistent conservationist and founder of Acadia National Park

by Steven Pavlos Holmes

Harvard alumna Sarah Alcorn reflects on her life as a private investigator

Boston-based private investigator Sarah Alcorn is “a bit of an oddball in this business.”

by Nell Porter-Brown