Rebecca O’Brien

Rebecca graduated in 2006 and moved to Jordan, where she was a founding faculty member at King's Academy, the first co-ed boarding school in the Middle East. After returning to the East Coast, she wrote for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, Parade, Forbes.com, and Slate's XX Factor blog before becoming a staff reporter at The [Bergen County] Record, where she was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for local reporting in 2014. She is now at The Wall Street Journal, and one of the staff members sharing the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2006

A Living Political Monument

In the years immediately following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy ’40, LL.D. ’56, a group of the president’s...

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2005

Countering Alcohol

In the fall of 2003, dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross—once an undergraduate here himself—paused in his work as a...

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2004

Eyes Opened But Averted

I make decisions on a whim, decisions prompted by sudden changes in interest—and subject to immediate retraction once I've recovered sense...

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2004

Going Home Again

The final project for my fall semester writing course freshman year was an autobiographical narrative in the style of Faulkner's The Sound and...

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2004

Extracurricular Communities

I think it came to me on a bleak November day, in the middle of an equally bleak economics lecture, as I perched high in the lofty wood...