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

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

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

Flying Squirrel

Wingsuit skydiver Alejandro Montagna on minimizing risk—at 150 mph

by Nancy Walecki

When Children Fall Ill

“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

We Remember WWI

Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I,  revisited this Veterans Day

by Adam Goodheart

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson