Gram gives peace a chance
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. Danielle Gram ’11 was asleep in her Currier House dorm room on the morning of Nov. 18, 2009, when her father phoned to say that he had awful news. Her brother had been murdered in Annapolis, Md., where he was visiting on vacation. The police had no suspects or even a motive for the slaying, since Kenneth Gram still had his wallet and cellphone when he was found. “At first, I couldn’t respond,” Danielle Gram remembered. “I thought it might be some twisted dream. I couldn’t believe it was my brother. I started sobbing into the phone.” In the months that followed, Gram’s response to her brother’s death was shaped by — and emblematic of — the fact that she had already devoted a quarter of her life to working for global peace. At 16, Gram co-founded...