Vivian Rong ’27 was the 2025 summer fellow at Harvard Magazine. From covering President Alan M. Garber’s Baccalaureate address during Commencement week to interviewing a student panel about shifting University policies at the end of July, she wrote articles and prepared copy about Harvard that ran online and in print as a full-time member of the staff. The Kirkland House resident—of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, a suburb of Philadelphia—is studying philosophy. As an editor-at-large of The Harvard Crimson’s magazine, Fifteen Minutes, she has focused on long-form journalism. In the fall of 2023, she wrote one of the most-read stories of that semester, “The Strange History of Fake Harvard Students.” More recently, she examined Harvard’s introductory humanities courses in “How to be a Humanities Concentrator.” An alumna of Reginald Dwayne Betts’s poetry workshop, her writing interests extend beyond nonfiction: she is also the president of the Harvard Undergraduate Creative Writing Collective.
