Tag: Commencement 2019

  • Nation & World

    Songwriter carries more than one tune

    Nima Samimi, recipient of a degree in Middle Eastern Studies, is a jack of all trades and a master of at least a few, including academics, music, and social justice.

    6 minutes
    Samimi standing near a tree
  • Nation & World

    A long road, well chronicled

    Denise-Marie Ordway, with a large family and impressive resumé, excels as Nieman Fellow, HGSE master’s candidate

    5 minutes
    Denise-Marie Ordway
  • Nation & World

    Overcoming the odds

    Onege Maroadi graduates from the Harvard Extension School with a master’s degree in international relations, a clean bill of health after fighting stage 3 cancer, a plan to help the world become a more peaceful place, and a happy toddler at home. But she almost didn’t make it to Cambridge.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Adjusting the flight plan

    Jake Moore will add a degree from the Kennedy School to the medals and commendations he has earned over 15 years in the Navy. His post-military target is human rights work with refugees and asylum seekers.

    5 minutes
    Moore looking at a river
  • Nation & World

    The flourishing of Genesis

    Genesis De Los Santos grew up in Dorchester and credits her community’s support for her unlikely journey from a neighborhood school to a private middle school academy to an elite high school and then to Harvard.

    4 minutes
    Genesis standing at a table
  • Nation & World

    At WHRB, Harvard student turns on radio and tunes in listeners

    Henna Hundal ’19 works as interviewer on her own radio show on Harvard’s WHRB, bringing the larger world to her listening audience.

    4 minutes
    Henna Hundal in the studio.
  • Nation & World

    Rising to the challenge

    MacLean Sarbah, M.A. ’19, hopes to return home to help take on one of Ghana’s biggest social problems: youth unemployment.

    5 minutes
    GSD student Maclean Sarbah He is seen at Adolphus Busch Hall