IARA Events

Throughout the year, IARA hosts and co-sponsors events focused on realizing institutions’ commitment to oppose racism and advance justice for all. Here, you can keep up to date with IARA’s upcoming events and access registration links. Sign up for our newsletter so you don’t miss anything!

Truth and Transformation Conference 2023

On September 28 and October 4, the fifth edition of the Truth and Transformation conference brought together racial equity advocates to build strategies for institutional accountability. Recordings are available online.

Truth and Transformation Conference 2022

Hybrid

The 2022 Truth and Transformation Conference was convened on October 20-21st by Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and hosted by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center. During this free, virtual conference, advocates, organizers, scholars, students, and community members engaged in conversations centered around the 2022 theme “Looking Back, Paying It Forward: Truth and Transformation through Historical Accountability.”

Truth and Transformation Conference 2021

Virtual

Please save the date for the annual Truth and Transformation Conference is convened by Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad and hosted by the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability (IARA) Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center. During this free, virtual conference, we invite you to join fellow advocates, organizers, scholars, students, and community members in engaging, challenging, and […]

Truth and Transformation Conference 2020

In October 2020, the Institutional Anti-Racism & Accountability Project (IARA) convened its second annual Truth and Transformation conference. In the wake of the summer that saw George Floyd and other Black American’’s murders and the country-wide protests that followed, over 1,300 participants convened online to discuss what tangible steps toward racial equity in organizations across sectors look like.