Our Team
Meet the people dedicated to advancing the work of the Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative
The Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery Initiative Team
Sara Bleich
Vice Provost for Special Projects, Professor of Public Health Policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Advisory Council
Philip Deloria
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Director, The Hutchins Center for African and African American Studies, Alphonse Fletcher University Professor, Harvard University
Evelynn Hammonds
Barbara Gutmann Rosenkratz Professor of the History of Science; Professor of African and African American Studies, FAS; professor, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Memorial Project Committee
Tania Bruguera
Senior lecturer in Media & Performance, Theater, Dance & Media affiliate of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, 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
Executive Director of Harvard’s Native American Program, Tribal Affiliation: Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah
Stephen Gray
Associate professor of urban design and director, Master of Architecture in Urban Design Program, Graduate School of Design
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, Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Brenda Tindal
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) chief campus curator and senior advisor on academic community engagement