"What role does the university play for those life-long learners?" she asks. "I know that Harvard, just like every institution, needs to evolve."

In keeping with that theme, Disney has begun Zoog Disney--interactive television. Sweeney describes watching her own daughter multi-task while watching television with a discernible sense of awe.

"[She was] chatting with friends about what she was watching while she was also pulling up a website," she says. "She was multi-tasking but it was seamless."

Disney's goal, she says, is to "get up to speed with what kids were doing."

"The central theme is staying connected to families," she says. "Maybe that's what I could also bring to the Board of Overseers--staying connected between the learners and the University."

Sweeney has been on the GSE's visiting committee for the past two years.

She is married to attorney Phillip Miller, whom she met at GSE.

"Another great benefit," she jokes. They have a son, 14, and a daughter, 9.