The 92 Report

Show Notes: Elaine Lum MacDonald and Will Bachman have a conversation about Elaine's journey since graduating from Harvard in 1992. Elaine started off her career in management consulting at the Monitor Company in Cambridge. After gaining experience in the field, after that she moved to Asia. She was based in Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Taiwan, and China for four years, gaining meaningful and memo...

Show Notes: Ruth Hertzman-Miller, a member of the Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992, graduated with a degree in biology and went on to a career in medicine, completing a residency in internal medicine at Cambridge City Hospital and a fellowship in health services research in Los Angeles. After returning to the Boston area, she worked as a physician at Cambridge Health Alliance and then at NewBri...

Show Notes Mary Dixie Carter, a journalist and author, talks about her journey after graduating from Harvard. She starts with her novel,  The Photographer. The novel focuses on Delta Dawn, a disturbed woman who is the subject of the novel. Mary explains that she got the idea for the book when she hired a photographer to take pictures of her kids.  The photographer took photos of the children but t...

Show Notes Sharif is a vascular surgeon currently living in Manhattan. After graduating from Harvard in 1992, he went to NYU for medical school. He completed his residency and fellowship at Mount Sinai and was on faculty there for 12-13 years before going to Cornell in 2016.  Sharif is also a father of two sons, and, throughout the years, he  has managed to maintain some of his Harvard friendships...

Show Notes: Rachel Berger and Will Bachman talk about Rachel's journey since graduating from Harvard. Rachel graduated with a degree in biochemistry and moved to New York City to attend Columbia medical school. She moved to Pittsburgh for her residency and ended up staying for 27 years. After completing her residency, she did a fellowship in general academic pediatrics in Braddock, Pennsylvania. ...

Show Notes: Mark Wilson is a history professor at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte and author of several books on American business and the winning of World War Two, the business of Civil War, military mobilization, and the state and the military and the market. Mark talks about his journey since Harvard which includes teaching English in Japan, his PhD in history in Chicago and meeting...

Show Notes Tara Altebrando is a scripted audio creator and author who was part of the Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992. She spoke to Will Bachman about her journey since graduation. As a senior, she had been the arts editor of The Independent and had interviewed various artists passing through Boston. She met the editor of a magazine based in Dublin at a New Music Seminar in New York and expres...

Will Bachman talks to Tai Wong, a Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992 alumni. Tai has been a trader for thirty years but  believes that his best trade was asking his high school girlfriend to marry him. They married after she finished business school and they now have four children. Tai shares that his family has been together for 27 years and have had the opportunity to travel to many places toge...

Show Notes Will Bachman and Nicholas Eisenberger discuss his career path since graduating from Harvard. Nicholas explains that he was always interested in the environment, but there was no real outlet for his interest in school or business at the time.  After graduating, he took a year off and a friend of his from Princeton called him from Budapest, Hungary and told him that action around environm...

Will Bachman is hosting a conversation with Jamylle Carter, a member of the Harvard and Radcliffe class of 1992. Jamylle graduated from Harvard with a degree in mathematics and went on to complete a PhD in math from UCLA. After UCLA, she also held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications in the University of Minnesota.  Math Think Tanks and Researching Algorit...

Show Notes: Will Bachman and Tim Whitmire talk about Whitmire's journey since graduating from Harvard. Whitmire started as a freelance journalist, then got a job at the Associated Press and covered Harvard Men's Basketball. He moved to the Providence Bureau of the Associated Press and eventually to New York City. He was transferred to Lexington, Kentucky to work as a sports writer and moved to Cha...

Will Bachman and Caribou Honig, a member of Harvard and Radcliffe's class of 1992, had a conversation about Caribou's journey since graduating. Caribou graduated from the University of Virginia with a JD MBA and got his first and only real job at Capital One. During his tenure, he met his soon to be wife and had a couple of kids. In 2006, Caribou left Capital One and took a year off to spend time...

Show Notes: Sarah's passion is creative writing and teaching it in ways that inspire and delight others. Today she works as a writing professor at a community college and offers creative writing workshops in hospitals, libraries, alternative education programs and more. Yet Sarah considers her real work to be caring for her three children and their rural homestead through the various challenges an...

Show Notes: Will Bachman and Ming Chen had a conversation about Ming's journey since graduating from Harvard in 1992. Ming is currently Chief Cultural Officer EF Education First, an education company with 50,000 employees. Will asked Ming to tell him a bit about what she does at EF Education First, and Ming explained that she is the company's Chief Culture Officer. Ming Chen is a long-time employe...

Show Notes: The Restorative Power of Arts in Education Michelle Holdt is the founder of Arts Ed Matters, a nonprofit organization that works to promote access to arts classes in public schools. She is the founder of Creative Compassion, a new organization that addresses the crisis in education. She is also the Arts and Restorative Learning Coordinator in Santa Clara County. Holdt has been working...

Will Bachman and Ben Balbale discuss Balbale's journey since graduating from Harvard. Balbale talks about how he has applied technology to the world in various different guises. He also talks about how he worked during the summer to help pay for college. He discusses his background in computer science and how it has helped them in his career. The Changing World of Computer Science They mention how...

Jamelle Bowers is a Hospital Medicine expert in Cincinnati, Ohio. She has been practicing medicine for over 25 years and her top areas of expertise are Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF), Saddle Pulmonary Embolism, Colonoscopy, and Endoscopy. You can reach out to Jamelle on Linkedin . Key points include: 07:24: On residency training 16:02: Working in a minority community 27:17:...

Father Roger J. Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, serves as Catholic Chaplain to Columbia University in New York City and to the Thomas Merton Institute for Catholic Life. He has been a pastor, newspaper editor and high school chaplain in the Diocese of Fall River. He writes for many publications, appears regularly on television and radio, and is the author of Plan of L...

Keith Quinn graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in American and English Literature. He has been an executive producer, content strategy consultant, and head of scripted content. Currently, he is the founder of Engine Room Media, a company that helps creators achieve their full potential, fueling growth with resources for content creation, subscriber acquisition, and audience and IP maximization. Yo...

Elizabeth Hansen is a lawyer and human resources professional with over a decade of experience creating and leading the Title IX and Equity offices for public and private colleges and universities. She works with organizations throughout the country, and in today's episode, she talks about her work with schools and colleges on equity and diversity inclusion. You can reach out to Elizabeth on Linke...

Lisa Ware graduated from Harvard with a B.A. in Neurobiology. After school, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Molecular Neurobiology. During this time she co-authored publications on nerve regeneration, and developed and administered new personnel training processes, reducing training time by 75%. In 1994 she decided to change career paths and went back to school to earn an M...

Evelyn Ch'ien graduated from Harvard with an A.B. in Philosophy and a Ph.d. in English Language and Literature/Letters. She is the author of Weird English,  and co-editor of The Annotated Poetry of Liao Entao . Formerly a tenured professor. Recently, she was a principal investigator of a project funded by the European Union, and currently, she is Senior Books Editor for Hyphen. You can connect wit...

Henry Bial earned a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard and a Ph. D. in Performance Studies from New York University. He is currently the Professor of Theatre and Director of the School of the Arts at the University of Kansas, where he also serves as Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He is the author of Playing God: The Bible on the Broadway Stage and Actin g Jewi...

Ben received a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard College, and his M.A. and Ph. D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from New York University, where he was a MacCracken Fellow. His doctoral dissertation analyzed the relationship between narcissism and fairness in the workplace, and his masters thesis examined the impact of trust on negotiation.  Currently, Ben is an executive coach, an orga...

When John Unger graduated from Harvard Law, he immediately started working at a Law firm in Cincinnati, and immediately realised it was a career path he did not want to follow. So, he left and began teaching high school students, and he has been teaching ever since. John talks about teaching, coaching, and how he connects with students. satisfaction.  Key points include: 05:15: How his style of te...