Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery

Tomiko Brown-Nagin, chair of the committee, is the dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and a professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Sven Beckert is the Laird Bell Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

Annette Gordon-Reed is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University.

Stephen Gray is an associate professor of urban design at Harvard Graduate School of Design and the founder of Grayscale Collaborative. 

Evelynn M. Hammonds is the chair of Harvard’s Department of the History of Science, the Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science, a professor of African and African American studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, and a professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health.

Nancy F. Koehn is the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. 

Meira Levinson is a professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and a Radcliffe Alumnae Professor.

Martha Minow is the 300th Anniversary University Professor and a former dean of Harvard Law School.

Maya Sen is a professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School.

Daniel Albert Smith is a lecturer on ministry studies at Harvard Divinity School and senior minister at the First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, UCC.

David R. Williams is the chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor of Public Health at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a professor of African and African American studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University.

William Julius Wilson is the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.

In Memoriam

Paul Farmer (1959–2022), our dear friend and colleague, was the Kolokotrones University Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a cofounder of Partners In Health.