Ellen Gordon Reeves is president of the Harvard Alumni Association. She is an author and was previously the education editor at The New Press. While at The New Press she edited The New Press Education Reader: Leading Educators Speak Out. Reeves is the author of Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?. She currently divides her time between Boston, Providence, and New York City, where she serves as the résumé and job-hunting expert at the Columbia Publishing Course.