People & Profiles

Two Tony awards and a dazzling Broadway career haven’t erased Michael Cerveris’s lifelong feeling of being an outsider. But it might just be what makes him a great actor.

Cornell Brooks ’90JD, the NAACP’s new leader, wants to build a movement.

Rénee Richards ’55 made national headlines for becoming a woman—forty years before Caitlyn Jenner.

Veteran AIDS activist Gregg Gonsalves wants to change the way you think about illness.

Money manager Scott Bessent ’84 on failure, choosing a major, and how finance is like journalism.

As the president urges grads to leave the world a better place, we talk to a few about Yale—and their future.