Vision & Justice

• Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
• Lori Gross, associate provost for arts and culture, Harvard University
• Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Victor S. Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Robin Kelsey, dean of arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, Harvard University
• Carrie Lambert-Beatty, professor of visual and environmental studies and of history of art and architecture in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and director of graduate studies in film and visual studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
• Sarah Lewis, assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, Harvard University
• Yukio Lippit, professor of history of art and architecture, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, and Harvard College Professor, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Jennifer L. Roberts, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Faculty Director of the Arts at the Radcliffe Institute and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
• Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Damian Woetzel, president, the Juilliard School

The program will emphasize short presentations with the goal of outlining and catalyzing ideas for future work in art and justice around the country and the world. The sessions will focus on a wide variety of related topics, from “Race, Justice, and the Environment” to “Cultural Narratives and Media.” The program incorporates a range of dynamic speakers and events, including a performance by Carrie Mae Weems; a conversation about Central Park Five, the forthcoming miniseries by Ava DuVernay and Bradford Young, with Henry Louis Gates Jr.; and a performance by Wynton Marsalis. Mona Hanna-Attisha, who discovered the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, will exchange ideas with Chelsea Clinton, and LaToya Ruby Frazier, who used her camera to highlight the injustice on the ground, will show one of her videos. The event culminates on Thursday with the conferral of the inaugural Gordon Parks Foundation Essay Prize and a keynote by the social justice activist Bryan Stevenson on Friday evening.

“Gordon Parks: Selections from the Dean Collection” opens at the Hutchins Center’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art in tandem with the convening. A public reception takes place on April 26, and the exhibition runs through July 19, 2019.

This public-facing event will convene a large group of prominent activists, academics, artists, and public servants. The event will be streamed live and recorded for later posting online as part of the Radcliffe Institute’s commitment to bringing its programming to audiences around the world.

Read Vision & Justice: A Civic Curriculum.

• David Adjaye, architect and principal, Adjaye Associates
• Elizabeth Alexander, poet, educator, memoirist, scholar, and arts activist; chancellor, Academy of American Poets; president, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Danielle Allen, James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University
• Lawrence S. Bacow, president, Harvard University
• Melody C. Barnes, distinguished fellow at the School of Law, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics and senior fellow at the Miller Center, and codirector for policy and public affairs for the Democracy Initiative, University of Virginia
• Alexandra Bell, multidisciplinary artist
• Maurice Berger, research professor and chief curator, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Robin Bernstein, Dillon Professor of American History and professor of African and African American studies and of studies of women, gender, & sexuality, Harvard University
• Makeda Best, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, and lecturer on history of art and architecture, Harvard University 
• Lawrence D. Bobo, dean of social sciences, Harvard College Professor, and W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
• Vincent Brown, Charles Warren Professor of History and professor of African and African American studies, Harvard University
• Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
• Joy Buolamwini, founder, Algorithmic Justice League
• Chelsea Clinton, vice chair, Clinton Foundation
• Jelani Cobb, Ira A. Lipman Professor of Journalism, Columbia University; staff writer, New Yorker
• Teju Cole, photography critic, New York Times Magazine; Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing, Harvard University
• Kasseem Dean (Swizz Beatz), record producer, rapper, and DJ
• Kimberly Drew, writer, curator, and activist
• Ava DuVernay, writer, director, producer, and film distributor
• Michael Famighetti, editor, Aperture magazine
• Drew Gilpin Faust, president emeritus, Harvard University
• Cheryl Finley, associate professor of art history, Cornell University
• Nicole R. Fleetwood, associate professor of American studies and graduate faculty in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
• LaToya Ruby Frazier, photographer; video artist; and associate professor of photography, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Alan M. Garber, provost, Harvard University; Mallinckrodt Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School; professor of economics, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences; professor of public policy, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
• Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher Jr. University Professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University
• Theaster Gates, founder and executive director, Rebuild Foundation; inaugural distinguished artist in residence and director of artist initiatives, Lunder Institute for American Art; professor, Department of Visual Arts, the University of Chicago
• Claudine Gay, Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Wilbur A. Cowett Professor of Government and of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Amanda Gorman, National Youth Poet Laureate
• Agnes Gund, philanthropist and art collector; founder, Art for Justice Fund; president emerita, Museum of Modern Art
• Catherine Gund, producer, director, writer, and activist; founder and director, Aubin Pictures
• Mona Hanna-Attisha, assistant professor of pediatrics and human development and founder and director of the Michigan State University–Hurley Children's Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, Michigan State University
• Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences in the Department History and the Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Sadie Rain Hope-Gund, photographer and writer
• Vijay Iyer, composer and pianist; Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts in the Department of Music and Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University
• Robin Kelsey, dean of arts and humanities in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, Harvard University
• Peter W. Kunhardt Jr., executive director, The Gordon Parks Foundation
• Franklin Leonard, film executive; founder, the Black List
• Sarah Lewis, assistant professor of history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, Harvard University
• Wynton Marsalis, musician, composer, and bandleader; managing and artistic director, Jazz at Lincoln Center
• Mohsen Mostafavi, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Alexander and Victoria Wiley Professor of Design, Harvard University
• Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and professor of history, race, and public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
• Diane Paulus, Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and professor of the practice of theatre in the Department of English, Harvard University
• Leigh Raiford, associate professor and H. Michael and Jeanne Williams Chair of African American Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
• Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director, Equal Justice Initiative; professor of clinical law, New York University
• Latanya Sweeney, professor of government and technology in residence, Department of Government, Harvard University
• Martha Tedeschi, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museums
• Hank Willis Thomas, conceptual artist
• Naomi Wadler, activist
• Darren Walker, president, Ford Foundation
• Carrie Mae Weems, artist
• Deborah Willis, university professor and chair of the Department of Photography and Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts and director of the Institute of African American Affairs, New York University
• Damian Woetzel, president, the Juilliard School