Alumni Profiles


Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Justice Seeker

Stephen J. Rapp seeks justice for Syrian victims of war crimes.

by Ben Beach

Makeda Best

Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator

by Sophia Nguyen

Art and Activism

Rediscovering Alain Locke and the project of black self-realization

by Adam Kirsch

Mary Ellen Avery

Brief life of a groundbreaking neonatologist: 1927-2011

by Amalie M. Kass , Eleanor G. Shore

Tuning In to Urban Noise

Erica Walker aims to put “tools and data into the hands of people who can use it.”

by Nell Porter Brown

HAA Honors Alumni Clubs and SIGs

A celebration of significant alumni and shared interest groups

“Gorey’s World”

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter Brown

Boston Roller Derby

Harvard ties to the increasingly popular, rigorous sport

by Nell Porter Brown

Broadsheet Coffee Roasters

An antidote to Starbucksification?

by Nell Porter Brown