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

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

Claudia Bedrick displays one of Enchanted Lion’s books.

Claudia Bedrick of Enchanted Lion Books for children

Claudia Bedrick ’85 of Enchanted Lion Books offers an international array of stories to young children.

by Kristen Strezo

Dewitt Jones seeks a fragile balance in financing community development.

Boston Community Capital's DeWitt Jones promotes affordable housing, energy efficiency, and a mortgage buyback program in low-income communities.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sandra Goldmark and Michael Banta at Pop Up Repair, their experimental effort to begin a national dialogue about consumption

Sandra Goldmark's novel effort promotes repairing, not replacing, items

Sandra Goldmark ’97 puts the focus on repair, not replace.

by Kristen Strezo

“I don’t want Morehouse to just survive,” says its new president, John S. Wilson Jr., “I want it to thrive.”

Morehouse College president returns to rebuild ailing institution

John S. Wilson Jr. grabs the chance to realize his calling.

by Nell Porter-Brown

J.C. Buttre&rsquo;s portrait, probably drawn when Everett ran for vice president on the Constitutional Union Party ticket in 1860, links him to Harvard and George Washington, one of his favorite subjects. (His lectures raised more than $100,000 to help purchase Mount Vernon [see <a href="http://harvardmagazine.com/2011/05/granny-talk">“Granny Talk”</a>], and he wrote the entry on Washington for the 1860 <i>Encyclopaedia Britannica.</i>)

Brief life of statesman-orator Edward Everett, by Castle Freeman

Brief life of a statesman-orator: 1794-1865

An honorand and the principal guest speaker at the 2007 Commencement exercises, Bill Gates reveled in collecting his Harvard degree—30-plus years after he dropped out of the College.

Walter Isaacson on Microsoft's founder Bill Gates at Harvard

Walter Isaacson on "complete rejectionist" Bill Gates at Harvard College—and the birth of personal-computer software