This year, WIT+ will invite staff members to share their career stories. They will share about their career path and how they got to their current role. Share about the challenges and successes along the way and how they overcame any roadblocks. Our first career story will be shared by our co-chair Suzanne Dossous-Verdier, Desktop Support Manager for HUIT.
This year WIT+ is providing IT staff to share their career journey to allow our community to learn more about various career paths at Harvard, how folx got to their current role, how they overcame any roadblocks, and their successes. There will be opportunity to ask questions. Our first presenter is WIT+ Co-Chair, Suzanne Dossous-Verdier, Desktop Support Manager for HUIT....
Waterhouse Room, Gordon Hall Harvard Medical School or Zoom
Gilbert C. Gee, Ph.D. is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Community Health Sciences in the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. He received a bachelors in neuroscience from Oberlin College, a doctorate in Health Policy and Management from Johns Hopkins University, and postdoctoral training in sociology from Indiana University. He has studied the social determinants of racial, ethnic, and immigrant health inequities for the past 2 decades. A particular emphasis of his work is on the role of racism at multiple levels across the life course. Professor Gee's research has been...
In this session, two negotiation experts discuss their experiences with programs that teach negotiation skills to individuals from underserved communities. Daniel leads a program in which Columbia MBA students teach formerly-incarcerated individuals. Melissa is the Founder and Executive Director of Negotiation Works, where she develops and leads negotiation skills programs for individuals emerging from difficult situations such as incarceration, homelessness, addiction, and domestic violence. Daniel and Melissa will share how their respective programs are structured and what they have...
Knafel Center 10 Garden Street Cambridge, MA 02138 or Online on Zoom
The Mike and Nina Patterson Science Symposium will explore these interconnected issues through sessions investigating global climate systems and climate disasters, public policy, health, climate justice and activism, and methods of adaptation and remediation.
Spirit Day is an annual observance that takes place on the third Thursday in October on October 20 this year. This day aims to create awareness for the bullying and harassment that the L.G.B.T.Q community faces. Millions of people worldwide identify as queer, and many more are yet to publicly declare their status. Such a large community of people shouldn’t be alienated or marginalized because of their sexual orientation. But the reality, sadly, is that they are. All over the world, L.G.B.T.Q youths suffer harassment because of their identity. There is a need for transgender...
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, 32 Quincy Street Cambridge MA
Join us to hear Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s inaugural associate curator of Native American art, deliver her lecture “Foregrounding Indigenous Voices and Perspectives at the Met.”
Speaker: Patricia Marroquin Norby (Purépecha), Associate Curator of Native American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Free admission, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Reservations may be arranged by clicking on the event on this form beginning on Monday, October 10, after 10am.
Ability+ is the group created to help build community around disability experiences plus allies at Harvard. Feel free to invite others who might like to join. Excited for the road ahead. Onward.
October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM) and our focus this month is “Return to Work.” As many workplaces appear to be resuming pre-COVID practices for in-person attendance, the process of “return to work” may be more complex for some. We would like to know more about...
How can truth and transformation be achieved through historical accountability? This year's Truth and Transformation Conference will examine how reparative practices, truth commissions, and institutional reckoning with structural oppression provide ways...