Malcom Glenn

Malcom Glenn (born February 6, 1987, in Denver, Colorado) is a writer and political commentator and was the president of The Harvard Crimson, the daily student newspaper of Harvard University, in 2008. He made national news as the first African American president of The Crimson in over a half-century.

Upon his election in November 2007, Glenn was featured in numerous publications, including The Denver Post,Essence Magazine, and The New York Observer. His term as president ended at the conclusion of Harvard's fall semester in January 2009.

Personal background

Glenn was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. He attended Thomas Jefferson High School, where he was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Jefferson Journal. Glenn graduated from high school in 2005 enrolled at Harvard College in the fall of that year.

He graduated from Harvard with a degree in history in June 2009.

Recent work

Glenn currently works at Uber in Washington D.C., where he focuses on building strategic partnerships with community and non-profit organizations. Previously, he worked in executive communications at Google, at an education advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. and at a D.C.-based Democratic polling/strategic consulting firm, Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. Following college, he became a contributor to The Huffington Post's Denver web site, writing about politics and local affairs.