The details of autumn
A look at campus as we head into the final weeks of fall.
Veterans of war and service
Harvard students who have served in the various branches of the Armed Forces represent a diverse range of backgrounds and experience, but all have at least one thing in common: a profound dedication to serving the nation.
Andrew H. Choi ’23, Alaskan arctic warfare expert
Andrew H. Choi ’23 was eager for a serious challenge in his first Army posting, so he chose as radically different an environment as he could imagine: Fairbanks, Alaska.
An intelligence past, a corporate law future
Krissy Annunziata, who is attending HLS virtually from her family’s farm in Ohio this semester, comes from a tradition of military service. Her parents met as students at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and both Annunziata and her older sister are graduates of the U.S. Air Force Academy.
Guarding POTUS
After training as a military police officer in the U.S. Marines, Mtume Sangiewa ’23 found himself with an extraordinary assignment: he was headed to Washington, D.C. to guard President Barack Obama ’91.
‘Bloom where you are planted, and good things will happen’
When she was pursuing her J.D., Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Hutton LL.M. ’21 knew that she wanted to enter public service, but wasn’t sure exactly how she would do so.
Harvard Law class games out worst-case election scenarios—and ways to remedy them
Given the strong possibility that Tuesday night’s presidential election will not go off without a hitch, a group of Harvard Law School students have launched a website that explores every other possible election scenario.
‘Seeing the law work on a nitty-gritty level is really important to remembering that people interact with the law’
As HLS celebrates National Pro Bono Week, students speak on their commitment to pro bono legal work, and the challenges and opportunities of doing that work remotely.
Research, writing, and advocating for change
Despite the pandemic, the 2020 Chayes International Public Service Fellows pursued projects around the world.
On the Front Lines of History
A few years ago as a financial analyst, Catherine Grace Katz ’22 found she sometimes needed a break from modeling Excel spreadsheets, so she’d take a few minutes to wander down to Chartwell Booksellers, a store specializing in books by and about Winston Churchill, located in the lobby of her midtown Manhattan office building.