IN THIS EDITION

Dani Cupps is President of the Harvard Club of Chicago and a longtime volunteer in the Harvard community. A Harvard College graduate, she has served on the HCC Board of Directors in various roles including Program Chair and for many years has been an alumni interviewer with the Schools Committee. Dani had a career in finance where she spent nearly two decades, and more recently, an entrepreneurial chapter as co-founder of a children’s clothing company. Dani currently serves as a Trustee of Fourth Presbyterian Church and is an active volunteer with Chicago Lights, where she tutors Chicago Public Schools students.

Dani and her husband live in Chicago, and have three young adult children. 

Upcoming Events

• TODAY September 3: Harvard Real Estate Alumni Organization’s quarterly Happy Hour

• September 16: Changing Cultures in Higher Education, an interactive program with Professor Eric Beerbohm, Safra Center for Ethics. Limited tickets.

• September 16: Welcome to Your City Chicago, together with the HAA, HCC welcomes recent grads to Chicago

• September 30: Mahjong and Tonic: we are bringing the tiles to the bar for a low-key, high-fun night of Mah Jong.

• October 6: Chicago Fire FC vs Vancouver Whitecaps FC. Join our waitlist — more tickets are likely to be available soon.

• October 13: Crossing Division Street - Book Launch Luncheon with author Rebecca Chamian Ribaudo '93, former HAA Elected Director and longtime HCC Board Member.

• October 20: Gun Violence in Chicago: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next - with a panel including Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education

• October 28: Steppenwolf Theatre World Premiere: The Adirondack Chair Circle

• October 29: Ivy+ Alumni Chicago Halloween Party
  

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Save the Date: Join or renew your HCC membership today for early access to limited-ticket events and exclusive member discounts. Attend just 3 to 4 events this year and your membership pays for itself!

• The Game: Harvard v Yale on November 21

Upcoming HAA/Harvard Alumni Events & Highlights

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Service, Engagement, and Giving Opportunities

• We invite you to make a local impact through our community programs. Whether you want to interview local college applicants, share jobs/internships with undergrads, mentor youth via Early College Awareness, or provide GED/leadership tutoring to local detainees, or collaborate on a program - we’d love to hear from you. Click here to get involved
  

• Interested in developing new skills and meeting exciting local changemakers? The HCC Programming and Marketing Committees are looking for alumni or current student volunteers for regular or project-based help. No experience is necessary. Help us shape our events calendar and connect our local alumni community. Contact us to learn more!

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Harvard Club of Chicago or the University.

Steven Schaumberger, MBA’88, of Chicago, Illinois, has made outstanding contributions to the Harvard alumni community through intentional, hands-on leadership marked by a strong commitment to intellectual vitality and alumni engagement. 

Over the last 13 years, Schaumberger has played a central role in bringing together Harvard alumni across the Chicago area by organizing hundreds of events that foster connection and lifelong learning as the programming chair for the Harvard Business School Club of Chicago (HBSCC) and the Harvard Club of Chicago (HCC). He has shepherded hundreds of programs featuring Harvard professors, best-selling authors, journalists, public officials, and a range of other distinguished speakers and guests. In addition to orchestrating these, Schaumberger has often served as host and interviewer. 

In all of his leadership roles—including as the longest-serving president of the HBSCC from 2015 to 2018 and a board member of the HCC—he has consistently embodied the core principles of collaboration, cooperation, and collegiality, navigating diverse perspectives with grace and understanding. 

Schaumberger is past managing director of NFP Insurance Solutions and current director at the life insurance brokerage firm Winged Keel Group. 

CLICK HERE to see Six Honored with John P. Reardon Jr. Alumni Award for Outstanding Service

HARVARD COLLEGE ALUMNI INTERVIEWERS

The HCC Schools Committee needs Harvard College alumni to interview Illinois and Northern Indiana applicants for the 2026-27 interviewing season. If you're interested in joining our interview team, please write to our HCC Schools administrator, Leslie Rachlin, who will help you register. For more information on interviewing and related programs, visit our website. Thank you!

JOBS & INTERNSHIPS FOR HARVARD UNDERGRADS

Our HCC program connecting Harvard undergrads with jobs and internships continues to grow and we hope to get more companies involved! Jobs and internships can be part-time, full-time, summer or year-round. We facilitate connections between undergrads seeking work and organizations, including non-profits, looking for help and/or looking to provide experience to Harvard undergrads and recent grads.

We invite organizations to fill out our Internship/Job Form. The information will be used by HCC in posting internship/job opportunities. Please contact Phil Acevedo with questions.

EARLY COLLEGE AWARENESS MAKING A PROFOUND IMPACT AND SEEKING ADDITIONAL VOLUNTEERS

The Early College Awareness Program engages middle and high school students who may not think college is an option or who might be the first in their family to consider attending college. We are growing quickly with new initiatives, program formats, event locations, and collaboration with additional Harvard Clubs outside of Chicago, and we need your help!

Please contact Kyle Breunlin and Wei Zhang via email to learn more about how to get involved. We are looking for additional members to support our goal of highlighting ways college can become a reality for EVERY student in Chicago. This is a truly rewarding experience with lasting impact in our community. 

EDUCATIONAL INSTRUCTORS FOR LOCAL DETAINEES

In 2020, HCC began working with the Cook County Department of Corrections’ (CCDOC) Alternative Programs & Education Department on developing and delivering educational programs for qualifying detainees. Since then, the program has expanded substantially with an increase in volunteers and course offerings. To learn more, please visit our website.

We are seeking volunteers on our instructional teams for our GED Test Prep, Conscious Leadership and Re-Entering the Workforce courses, sessions for which will resume in the coming weeks. In December of 2023 CBS News featured our program's impact and value: Cook County Jail inmates learn financial literacy from Harvard grads - CBS Chicago (cbsnews.com).

If you are interested in learning more, serving as a tutor, instructor or facilitator for this initiative, kindly email our Program Manager Kismet Lantos-Swett along with Co-Directors Bruce Hochstadt or Diane Longoria.
Please NOTE that participants must be Harvard graduates, current Harvard students or immediate family members.

The Harvard Club of Chicago is dedicated to fostering a strong and welcoming community of local Harvard University alumni through programs and events, serving the interests of Harvard locally, promoting Harvard’s values of service, education and leadership, and providing alumni with opportunities to serve the local community.

We are committed to providing a tolerant and inclusive community for our membership and all alumni representing diverse generations, backgrounds, experiences and perspectives.

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