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Courtesy of The Harvard Crimson
Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals celebrated Kerry Washington, their 2016 Woman of the Year, in a parade and ceremony on January 28.
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February 2016 Vol. 1
Highlights:
- Leadership: Serve on National Board
- Diversity: HBAS Phone-A-Thon; Summer Scholarship Opportunity for African-American Youth
- Health and Wellness: Updates
- HBAS Chicago: Highlights from All-Ivy Mixer
- Notable News: HMS Students push for diversity in dean selection; Paula A. Johnson, AB '80 named first African American president of Wellesley; Kerry Washington honored as Woman of the Year by Hasty Pudding; Harvard names black woman to head School of Public Health
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Leadership: Serve on National and Local Boards
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National and Local Board Vacancies
As terms expire, a number of vacancies have opened on the HBAS National Board, including:
- Alumni Affairs Chair (Local Chapter Coordinator)
- Diversity Co-Chair
- Communications Co-Chair
- Membership Co-Chair
- Black Alumni Weekend Co-Chair
The following local board position is currently open:
Please contact HBAS Nominating Chair, Brian Benjamin, MBA '03, at
[email protected] for details about roles and responsibilities. You may also e-mail Brian
to submit a nomination or if you have other questions.
Requirements:
Candidates must submit a Statement of Intent (300 words max) and current resume to [email protected].
Subject line should include the following:
HBAS Nomination: [Position] [Full Name].
Please note that all members of the National Board of Directors are responsible for an annual give-get of $500.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Statements: Friday, February 26, 2016 11:59PM EST
Interviews and Selection: Monday, February 29 through Friday, March 4
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Diversity: HBAS Phone-a-Thon
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The 2016 HBAS Phone-a-Thon Is (Almost) Here!
Students admitted via early action to the class of 2020 have received their acceptance letters, and regular decision acceptances will be rolling in before you know it!
We need volunteers to call students now and/or in April (please specify your availability when you sign up). If you're able to make welcome phone calls this year to Black students who have been admitted to Harvard College, please complete this
survey to share your latest information with us. We greatly appreciate any time that you're able to give!!
Paris Woods AB '06, EdM '08
HBAS Diversity Chair
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Diversity: Summer Scholarship Opportunity for
African American Youth
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Summer Scholarship Opportunity for African American Youth -
Application Open!
The purpose of this scholarship is to give promising young people from low-income backgrounds access to high quality summer programming, the types of academic camps and opportunities you as alumni may have taken advantage of in middle school and high school that helped you prepare for the rigors of a place like Harvard.
We will start by offering this scholarship to students in New Orleans for use in Summer 2016 and expand to additional cities in future years. Applications are due March 15, 2016.
More information and a copy of the announcement can be found
here.
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The HBAS Health & Wellness Committee was launched in the spring of 2015. Understanding the deleterious impact that unaddressed mental health issues can have on an individual and his/her community, that same year, HBAS and the Steve Fund started the Mental Health Initiative (MHI) as the first series of programming for the Health & Wellness Committee.
To date, the HBAS Health & Wellness Committee members have provided health resources and advanced the mission of the Steve Fund for not only Harvard alumni and current students, but also for US minority medical students.
Dr. Annelle B. Primm speaking at the HBAS mental health workshop on campus.
Last year, the HBAS Health & Wellness Committee and the Steve Fund collaborated with a few organizations for a variety of activities, including:
- A joint panel discussion with the HBAS DC chapter about depression for young professionals in Washington, DC.
- A presentation with the National Leadership Institute of the Student National Medical Association about mental health for medical students and health providers in Durham, NC.
- A lunch workshop about mental health for Harvard college students, graduate students, alumni, and faculty in Cambridge, MA.
- Providing holiday wellness strategies for coping with stressors that arise during the holiday season in the December HBAS Newsletter.
In November 2015, the H
B
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and the Harvard Black Community Leaders to host a workshop entitled "Empower
ed Minds: Freedom to Love, Laugh, and Live Healthy Lives".
A couple of the objectives of this workshop were to provide a forum to discuss psychological and environmental stressors impacting student achievement, and to equip students with strategies to address mental health issues that may arise or become exacerbated by identified stressors. The guest speakers included Dr. Annelle Primm, a Radcliffe alumna, psychiatrist for 30 years, and former Deputy Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association, and Dr. Kevin Cokley, a professor in the Department of Educational Psychology as well as the Department of African and African American Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Additional photos and videos from the workshop are available here.
Looking ahead, the Steve Fund will offer an online counseling community for young people of color via 7 Cups of Tea this month.
Although a lot has been accomplished, there is still a need for individuals who are willing to support the missions of the HBAS Health & Wellness Committee and the Steve Fund through volunteering and donations. Please email [email protected] or [email protected] for more information.
The Steve Fund (www.stevefund.org ) is a philanthropic organization created in memory of Stephen Rose, a Harvard alumnus of the class of 2007. The Steve Fund works with colleges and universities, outstanding non-profits, researchers, practitioners, students, and with groups serving diverse populations to stimulate dialogue and promote effective programs and strategies that build understanding and assistance for mental and emotional health of the nation's students of color as they enter, matriculate in, and transition from higher education.
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Highlights from HBAS Chicago's All-Ivy Mixer
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- Harvard Medical School students (pictured above) delivered a petition to university President Drew Gilpin Faust's office urging her to consider diversity and social justice when searching for a new medical school dean
- Harvard Medical School professor Paula A. Johnson, AB '80 named president of Wellesley College. She will be the first African American to serve in the role.
- Kerry Washington honored by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatrical as its 2016 Woman of the Year.
- Michelle Williams, chairwoman of the epidemiology department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been named as the next dean of the school.
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