Annual Holiday Luncheon
Join your fellow alumni for this festive tradition celebrating the year's end!
Our featured speaker will be performer-composer, scientific researcher, and curator Toussaint J. Miller AB'25 (biography below).
We also will hear from current undergraduates about their time in Cambridge.
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Date: |
Thursday, December 18, 2025 |
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Time: |
11:30 a.m. Doors open; 12:00 Lunch & speakers; 1:30 p.m. Conclusion The schedule will be strictly observed. |
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Location: |
The Marriott East, 26300 Harvard Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44122 Free parking is available at the venue. |
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Cost: |
$45 members/$55 non-members (Chicken, salmon, vegetarian, and Kosher meals are available.) Join the Club at https://hcnortheastohio.clubs.harvard.edu/memsub.html. |
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Registration: |
Please click on the blue button below. |
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Questions? |
Email info@hcneo.org. |
Toussaint J. Miller's work explores the intersection of art and medicine as a means of bridging the gap between scientific inquiry and representational justice. He graduated earlier this year with an A.B. with a double concentration in Neuroscience and Music. Toussaint currently is reading for an MSc in History of Science, Medicine and Technology at the University of Oxford. A graduate of University School hailing from Cleveland, he attributes many of his wide-ranging interests to his upbringing.
Toussaint has published scientific research papers on the effects of music on cognitive function and has co-authored a forthcoming oncological neuroscience paper.
As a musician rooted in both jazz and new music traditions, Toussaint has studied under and performed with musical revolutionaries including Vijay Iyer and esperanza spalding. In 2023, he was commissioned by the Harvard Office for the Arts to compose and perform a multidisciplinary piece entitled All Sing as a prelude to President Claudine Gay’s inauguration. Toussaint also co-founded the Black Arts Collective at Harvard—the University's premier Black interdisciplinary arts space.
Commissioned by The Cleveland Orchestra, Toussaint curated The Magic Lens: A Photographic Journey by Chuck Stewart for the 2024 Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival, celebrating Stewart’s iconic photography and establishing a new canon of Black imagery within an artistic vernacular that seldom makes space for the Black artist. He followed this with Re-membering Community for the 2025 Festival, featuring Ohio-based artists engaging with themes of reconciliation through visual art.