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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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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 […]

How to Achieve Racial Justice through Organizational Transformation: Models that Work

What models are effective at advancing racial justice and sparking organizational change? Wednesday, November 30th, the Institute of Politics and Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation hosted a conversation with two pioneering architects of racial equity tools for the workplace, higher education and non-profits. Gail Christopher, Executive Director, National Collaborative […]

Truth and Transformation Conference 2022

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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.”