Alumni Profiles


Slow and Steady

A Harvard Law School graduate completes marathons in all 50 states.  

by Jacob Sweet

Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy

The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead

When Children Fall Ill

“You work in the hope space, and you tend to the grief.”

by Nell Porter Brown

We Remember WWI

Alums’ remarkable memories of World War I,  revisited this Veterans Day

by Adam Goodheart

The Irresistible Allison Feaster

A basketball star's journey from the Harvard hardwood to the Celtics front office

by Lydialyle Gibson

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian

NFL Referee Ron Torbert Makes the Tough Calls

A Harvard Law alum puts his degree to work on the field.

by Craig Lambert

Justice Elena Kagan, in Dissent

Ebbing trust in the Supreme Court, and what to do about it  

by Lincoln Caplan

Saving Lives in Ukraine

Brooks Newmark ’80 evacuates women, children, and the elderly with his “Dunkirk-like fleet” of humanitarian buses.

by Gordon F. Sander

“Anyone Can Be an Activist”

Alumni get involved in politics.

by Isabel Mehta

Making Art Work

David Andersson’s quest to reshape the public realm

by Nell Porter Brown