Alumni Profiles

Alumni Profiles |

Slow and Steady

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

by Jacob Sweet

Celia Pym at work with a needle and thread

Montage | January-February 2022

Damage and Repair

Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Montage | January-February 2022

From Punk to the Silver Screen

The ingenious, intuitive film scores of Carter Burwell ’77

by Nicolas Rapold

Alumni | January-February 2022

Notes on Doctoring

Michael Stanley and the covenant of medicine

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of Carolyn Gold and the cover of her book, When I Died

Students & Alumni |

Life After Brain Injury

Alumna Carolyn Gold on finding a “new self” after West Nile encephalitis

by Lydialyle Gibson

Amy Goodman featured in her broadcast studio giving the peace sign

Alumni | November-December 2021

People-Powered Journalism

At Democracy Now! Amy Goodman goes “where the silence is.”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Emily Broad Leib in front of produce

Features | November-December 2021

The Food Waste Problem

Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.

by Jacob Sweet

Jason Bouldin at work on a painting in his studio

Montage | November-December 2021

The Art of the Portrait Painter

Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta

Montage | November-December 2021

How Myth and Memoir Intertwine

Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.

by Juliet Isselbacher

An image from Gilens's "Reading Forest" installation, a sketched cross-section of a tress with words interspersed in the rings. They read: "The effects of climate change are rippling through the landscape and will intensify in ways that are difficult to predict."

Montage | September-October 2021

A Landscape Architect's Outdoor Artwork

Todd Gilens brings wilderness into urban public art.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Nabaneeta and Nandana Dev Sen embracing in 2018

Montage | September-October 2021

A Beloved Bengali Poet in Translation

A new book presents a mother and daughter’s final collaboration

by Lydialyle Gibson