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Our Team

Meet the team dedicated to advancing the work of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative.

Leadership Team

Sara Bleich

Vice Provost for Special Projects

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Shahara C. Jackson

Program Director for HBCU Strategic Initiatives

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Julita Bailey-Vasco

Senior Associate Director of Communications

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Our Team

RuQuan Brown

H&LS Student Ambassador

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Alex Glomset

Project Manager

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Tenzin Gund-Morrow

H&LS Student Ambassador

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Tania G. Hernandez

Project Manager, Communications & Community Engagement

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Aleena Hill-DaCosta

Executive Assistant/Project Coordinator

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Advisory Committee

George Daley

Dean, Harvard Medical School

Srikant Datar

Dean, Harvard Business School

Doug Elmendorf

Dean, Harvard Kennedy School

John Manning

Dean, Harvard Law School

Martha Minow

300th Anniversary University Professor, Former chair of the H&LS Implementation Committee

Ruth Simmons

Senior Advisor to the President on HBCU Engagement

Bridget Terry Long

Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Sarah Whiting

Dean, Harvard Graduate School of Design

Contact us

We welcome thoughts and questions about the initiative, and how we can work with communities in and around Harvard to address and remediate systemic inequities that are the result of legacies of slavery.