#  Afternoon of Engagement 

 



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On April 5, 2017 students, staff and scholars gathered for a university-wide reflection and discovery workshop, an Afternoon of Engagement. Utilizing story-telling and small-group conversations, community members explored what inclusion and belonging mean for our campus and generated solutions.

Creating greater experiences of inclusion and belonging is essential for Harvard’s community members to thrive and flourish; creating a supportive environment for better academic, professional and personal growth begins with conversation and discovery, and there is no endpoint in our goal.



 

##  Program 

### Welcome

[**Danielle S. Allen**](/people/danielle-s-allen)  
Co-chair, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force  
James Bryant Conant University Professor  
Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics

[**Drew Gilpin Faust**](http://www.harvard.edu/president/biography)  
President and Lincoln Professor of History, Harvard University

### Stories of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

**Danielle S. Allen**

**Kalan Chang**  
Manager for Overseas Financial Operations, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

**Katrina Armstrong**  
Member, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force  
Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School  
Physician-in-Chief, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

**Scott Abell**  
Member, Harvard University Board of Overseers

**Eden Girma**  
Harvard College Class of 2018

### Achieving Inclusion and Belonging: One Decision at a Time

[**Frances Frei**](/people/frances-frei)  
Member, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force  
UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management, Harvard Business School  
Senior Associate Dean for Executive Education, Harvard Business School

[**Archon Fung**](/people/archon-fung)  
Co-chair, Inclusion and Belonging Task Force  
Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School  
Academic Dean, Harvard Kennedy School



 

##  What We Learned

 Read a report on the Afternoon of Engagement on Inclusion and Belonging [here](/file_url/236). The report includes lessons learned, summary of registration data, and thematic analysis of participant submitted responses.



 

##  In the News 

 



  [### Afternoon of Engagement offered personal anecdotes, suggestions 

 ](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/05/afternoon-of-engagement-offered-experiences-suggestions/) May 17, 2017 

 Staff ‘provided powerful insights about how we might do better’ This past fall, Harvard President Drew Faust convened a University-wide task force to examine ways to help Harvard thrive as a place where all members of its increasingly diverse community... 

 

 

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   [### A session to foster inclusion, belonging

 ](http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/04/hundreds-trade-experiences-ideas-at-session-to-encourage-a-more-inclusive-harvard/) April 13, 2017 

 Hundreds trade experiences, ideas that encourage more embracing, aware Harvard By John Laidler, Harvard Correspondent Over the course of the Afternoon of Engagement on April 5, participants shared more than 1,500 experiences, aspirations, and ideas with... 

 

 

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   [### Toward a more welcoming campus

 ](/news/toward-more-welcoming-campus) April 04, 2017 

 University-wide Afternoon of Engagement at Sanders will relay progress, seek input on inclusiveness issues By John Laidler, Gazette Correspondent Students, academic personnel, and staff from across Harvard will have an opportunity on Wednesday to... 

 

 

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   [### Engaging with 'Inclusion' at Harvard

 ](http://harvardmagazine.com/2017/03/engaging-with-inclusion-at-harvard) March 31, 2017 

 by Oset Babür As Harvard and other educational institutions have honed their admissions and hiring policies to make their communities more diverse along multiple dimensions, they have come to focus recently on “inclusion”: trying to ensure that all... 

 

 

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   [### Invitation to Afternoon of Engagement on April 5

 ](/news/invitation-afternoon-engagement-april-5) March 09, 2017 

 Dear Members of the Harvard Community, I invite you to join me in Sanders Theatre on Wednesday, April 5, at 2:00 p.m., for an Afternoon of Engagement, organized by the Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging. Tracy Palandjian, member of the Board of... 

 

 

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