Students & Alumni

Salvador Litvak smiles, arms crossed, in a vest and hat on a city street.

Montage | May-June 2025

Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Lissa Young fosters open discussions about love and sexuality during a psychology class for freshmen cadets at West Point.

Alumni | May-June 2014

Duty Calls

An alumna chooses “the harder right.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Justin Kaplan at home

Students & Alumni |

Biographer and Booklover Justin Kaplan: 1925-2014

In tribute to an old friend

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.”

Alumni | March-April 2014

Shades of Justice

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.

Alumni | March-April 2014

Citizen Soldier

A profile of former Marine Seth Moulton ’01, M.B.A.-M.P.P. ’11

by Michael Zuckerman

Murray in 1962

Features | March-April 2014

Vita: Henry A. Murray

Brief life of a personality psychologist: 1893-1988

by Marshall J. Getz

The Schachters with children they have helped in Chennai

Alumni | January-February 2014

Caring for Children in Chennai

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.

Alumni | January-February 2014

Picture-book Publisher

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

by Kristen Strezo

Alumni | January-February 2014

Dudley’s Square Deal

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

Alumni | November-December 2013

Pop Up Repair Impresaria

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.”

Alumni | November-December 2013

Morehouse Man, Redux

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

by Nell Porter-Brown