Alumni

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

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Remembering Jack Reardon

He was Harvard’s quintessential people person

by Jonathan Shaw

Teaching Children to Care

Dina Buchbinder Auron, M.P.A. ’16, uses sports to get children excited about solving global problems.

by Aidan Langston

Justin Cronin ’84’s “The City of Mirrors”

Thanks to Harvard, according to a new fantasy epic by Justin Cronin ’84

by Grayson Clary

Harvard hockey player Bill Keenan writes a memoir

The post-Harvard hockey tales of Bill Keenan

by Bailey Trela

Megan White Mukuria and her tools

Megan White Mukuria and ZanaAfrica Foundation aid Kenyan girls

An alumna’s novel approach to helping Kenyan tweens

by Olivia Campbell

How Franklin Leonard became screenwriters' most effective “hype man”

Turning the Black List into a business, to modernize Hollywood’s dream machine

by Sophia Nguyen

Elizabeth Claire Walker, from the Los Angeles Ballet to Harvard and back

A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls

by Maggie Shipstead

Excerpt from Amy Tuteur's "Push Back: Guilt in the Age of Natural Parenting"

Strong words from a combatant in the childbirth wars

Commercial fisherman Russell Sherman still admires the fishermen he worked for in his early days: “Strong, and strong-willed, independent men. Most were veterans of World War II, and had been through a lot—they had tremendous work ethic. And I wanted nothing but to earn their respect.”

Gloucester fisherman Russell Sherman is profiled

How Gloucester’s Russell Sherman got hooked

by Nell Porter-Brown

Top row from left: Thomas G. Everett and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. Bottom row from left: John H. McArthur and Betsey Bradley Urschel

Harvard Medalists of 2016

For “extraordinary service to the University”

Ruth Rabb and Leon Starr

Harvard Commencement’s oldest attendees

The oldest graduates at Commencement