Alumni Profiles

Alumni Profiles |

Slow and Steady

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

by Jacob Sweet

Melvin B. Miller

Students & Alumni |

Melvin Miller ’56: “Not going…to stand aside”

The founder, editor, and publisher of The Bay State Banner profiled

by Juliet Isselbacher

Johnson plays his harmonica with the Boston Pops orchestra behind him.

Montage | May-June 2021

A Life in Harmonica

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait photograph of Marilyn Booth

Montage | May-June 2021

Finding Voices

Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Portrait photograph of Maggie Shipstead

Montage | May-June 2021

“Like Driving at Night”

Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel

by Dan Kelly

Pediatrician Eileen Costello stands next to the Boston Medical Center’s mobile pediatric clinic.

Alumni | May-June 2021

Keeping Them Close

A pediatrician cares for a city’s children.

by Nell Porter Brown

Andrew Rueb speaks to members of his team.

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2021

The Bottomless Sport

Andrew Rueb’s experience on the professional tennis circuit informs his coaching.

by Jacob Sweet

Photograph of Chris Wallace moderating 2020 presidential debate

Features | May-June 2021

Straight-Up News

Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”

by Craig Lambert

Photograph of Roxanne Guenette

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2021

Roxanne Guenette

Seeking answers to science’s biggest questions

by Jonathan Shaw

Stephen Gray stands on city sidewalk with street car passing by on right

Features | March-April 2021

Shaping Cities

Stephen Gray pioneers equitable urban design.

by Jacob Sweet

Portrait of Jeannie Suk Gersen, an elegantly dressed Korean American woman leaning against a stone archway.

Features | March-April 2021

Due Process

Jeannie Suk Gersen on the law, trauma, and “the rhetoric of believing”

by Lydialyle Gibson