CA graduates go on to leave their mark on the world. They are dancers and doctors, authors and ambassadors, entrepreneurs and engineers. They approach the world with creative insight and engage us with their intellect, imagination, and contributions to our world. Below are just some of the CA alums who have gone on to shape the world in which we all live. For more alum profiles, find our magazine here.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
aka Le1f, rapper and producer
women’s self-confidence advocate, a viral video hitmaker, an award-winning writer/director/producer, and founder of Yes Queen
president, Harvard University, author of This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
award-winning actress and filmmaker
cofounder, Nantucket Nectars and O Beverages
managing director and cohead of Fixed Income, BlackRock; former Undersecretary for Domestic Finance, U.S. Treasury
author of I See You Everywhere, The Whole World Over, and Three Junes
Grammy-nominated keyboardist
AIDS research pioneer, global health and social policy advocate
Director of the McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (UT Southwestern) and research pioneer
senior partner at McKinsey and Company
journalist and author of A Death in Belmont, Fire, and The Perfect Storm
American journalist, public radio personality, former producer of the television and radio program This American Life, and the host and executive producer of the podcast Serial, the most popular podcast in history
digital marketer for companies including Vevo, Spotify, AT&T, and Showtime
planetary scientist, NASA investigator, University of Maryland Department of Astronomy
Director, Boston Children’s Hospital Neonatal Network
biographer, Schulz and Peanuts, N.C. Wyeth
author of Evening, Folly, Lust & Other Stories, Monkeys, Rapture, and Poems 4 A.M; screenwriter for Stealing Beauty
choreographer, performer, and teacher
cinematographer, Kodak Vision Award recipient, and first woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography and first to receive the New York Film Critics Award for Best Cinematographer
humanitarian, peace advocate
an American interdisciplinary scholar of race and African American culture, Professor in Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, and in African and African American Studies at Harvard University, MacArthur Fellow, and National Book Award winner
Academy Award- and Emmy Award-winning producer
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
syndicated cartoonist, “Rhymes with Orange”
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
author and editor
actor and singer
former director, Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives initiative