Raymond Traietti

Raymond Traietti is the Director for Administration at the Office for the Arts at Harvard University. He has worked at Harvard for 28 years, focusing on programming and performance venue management with an emphasis on historical architectural preservation.13 Traietti received his BA from Bard College, where he studied with A.J Ayer, read American Pragmatists, and wrote his senior thesis on Richard Rorty.1

In his role, Traietti has been involved in various projects at Harvard, including:

1. Overseeing renovations of Memorial Hall, including the recent roof replacement project for Annenberg Hall and Sanders Theatre.2
2. Managing the Memorial Hall complex, which includes Sanders Theatre and Annenberg Hall.2
3. Acquiring historical materials related to Harvard, such as a 64-year-old color video of the 1956 fire that destroyed Memorial Hall's clock tower.4

Traietti has a deep attachment to the forests of New England and received his foundational educational experience at the experimental democratic public high school, School-Within-a-School in Brookline, Massachusetts.1 His experience there taught him to appreciate both the power and fragility of democracy.1