Our Team
Meet the team dedicated to advancing the work of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery initiative.
Our Team
Advisory Council
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Director, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Evelynn Hammonds
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, FAS; professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T. Chan School of Public Health
Memorial Project Committee
Vince Brown
Charles Warren Professor of American History, Professor of African and African American Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Tania Bruguera
Senior lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Dan Byers
John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Lecturer on Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard College Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Guy-Uriel Charles
Charles Ogletree Jr. Professor of Law, faculty director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, Harvard Law School
Jordan Clark
Associate director and acting executive director, Harvard University Native American Program, Tribal Affiliation: Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah
Stephen Gray
Associate Professor of Urban Design, Director of the Master of Architecture in Urban Design Program
Eric Höweler
Director of the Master of Architecture I Program and Professor of Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Jerome Offord, Jr.
Associate University librarian and chief diversity officer, Harvard Library
Karthik Pandian
Associate Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard College Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Brenda Tindal
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) chief campus curator and senior advisor on academic community engagement
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.