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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!

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Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice

JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Join the Institute of Politics and Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project for a discussion with the authors of the new book “Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice.” The conversation will center on the history and current developments of cannabis legislation through a lens of racial reckoning. Authors Akwasi Owusu-Bempah and […]

Key Findings from Antiracist Change in Healthcare Organizations

Rubenstein 414-AB (Democracy Lab), Harvard Kennedy School, and online

As a greater number of American healthcare organizations have proclaimed their commitments to racial justice and equitable care, the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project (IARA) team at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation set out to answer the key question: What enables effective and sustained antiracist change in healthcare organizations?  You are invited […]

The Great Outdoors? Tackling Structural Racism in National Parks

JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Kennedy School 79 John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Harvard ID holders are invited to attend a panel discussion that will examine the history of systemic racism and exclusion in America’s National Parks, public lands, and outdoor industry, and how leaders and organizations are challenging these structures and creating new equitable practices and policies. Speakers include: Tyrhee Moore, Founder and Executive Director, Soul Trak […]

Reducing Racial Inequality in Crime and Justice

Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The United States continues to grapple with creating an accurate, national picture of racial inequality in crime and justice. Criminal justice reform requires policies that interrogate and solve for the historical legacy of racial exclusion and structural inequalities. The IARA Project hosted a discussion with Bruce Western, Bryce Professor of Sociology and Social Justice and […]