Nina Pasquini

Nina Pasquini is a staff writer for Harvard Magazine. She graduated from Harvard College in 2021 and joined the magazine in 2023. She writes about education, the arts, and artificial intelligence, with a focus on how public policy shapes individual lives. Her feature on how “science of reading” reforms can obscure structural challenges in literacy education was one of the magazine’s most-read stories of 2024. (Read her behind-the-scenes account of reporting that article.) Before Harvard Magazine, she reported from Paris, Seoul, and Raleigh. She won a North Carolina Press Association Award for her feature on musicians’ mental health struggles during the pandemic for the Raleigh News & Observer.

Jessica Shand—Math and Music at Harvard

Jessica Shand blends math and music.

Remembering Harvard Professor and Composer Earl Kim

A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.

Harvard Education School Dean Appointed

Nonie K. Lesaux transitions from interim to permanent dean.

How to Overcome Pandemic Learning Losses

Post-pandemic K-12 learning gaps remain—but some districts have found ways to close them. 

Galileo's Compass and the Art of Branding

How Galileo’s geometric and military compass helped him calculate his own ascent

Leslie Jamison on Isolation, Empathy, and Selfhood

The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood

Harvard's Tom Kane on Effective School Reforms

Tom Kane deploys data to help improve education.

Jodie Foster to Receive 2025 Radcliffe Medal

The actress and filmmaker will receive the Institute’s highest honor on May 9.

Five Questions with "Rent Free" Star Jacob Roberts

The actor and filmmaker on creativity, collaboration, and celebrity canines

"Rent Free" and Gen Z: Harvard Alum Jacob Roberts on Filmmaking, Gig Culture, and Growing Up

Actor and filmmaker Jacob Roberts’s Gen Z sensibility