Registration: 16th Annual Robert Coles "Call of Service" Lecture & Award and 2022 Alumni Weekend

Friday October 14 at 7:30 | Lowell Lecture Hall

Doors will open at 7:00 pm

We are thrilled to announce the honoree for the 16th Annual Robert Coles “Call of Service” Lecture & Award: Loretta J Ross! Join us on Friday, October 14 to honor her as our 16th awardee and lecturer. Loretta Ross is an award-winning, nationally-recognized expert on racism and racial justice, women's rights, and human rights. Her work emphasizes the intersectionality of social justice issues and how intersectionality can fuel transformation.

Ross was the National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective (2005-2012) and co-created the theory of Reproductive Justice. She was National Co-Director of the April 25, 2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the National Organization for Women (NOW), and was the national program director of the National Black Women’s Health Project. One of the first African American women to direct a rape crisis center, Loretta was the third Executive Director of the D.C. Rape Crisis Center. She is now a Professor at Smith College in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender where she teaches courses on white supremacy, human rights, and calling in the calling out culture.

In 2007 PBHA established a lecture and award that brings a significant figure in public service to campus each year to engender a commitment to service and draw attention to important social issues. The only award at Harvard focused on public service, this award is named in honor of Dr. Robert Coles: former PBHA volunteer and Board Member, child psychologist, civil rights activist, longtime Harvard Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning author. His book, “The Call of Service,” examines the idealistic spirit PBHA seeks to foster in our students and serves as a most fitting title for this annual lecture and award.

Registration: Alumni Weekend

Full Schedule Below | October 14 and 15

Every fall, PBHA hosts an Alumni Weekend that connects students and alums across generations in meaningful discussions on social justice. This year, it will be held on Saturday, October 15th. We are so excited to honor Dr. Timothy McCarthy ‘93 as PBHA’s 2022 Outstanding Alumnus and honor the Class of 1972 as PBHA’s Outstanding Supporter! Dr. McCarthy and the Class of 1972 will be honored at the Alumni Luncheon as part of PBHA's Alumni Weekend on Saturday, October 15. Full Saturday schedule below Come to be inspired, come to reconnect, and discuss PBHA’s recent Alumni Impact Study.

About PBHA's Outstanding Alumnus Dr. Timothy McCarthy '93:

The adopted only son and grandson of public school teachers and factory workers, Timothy Patrick McCarthy ‘93 has devoted his life to public service and social justice. During his time at Harvard College, he was active in FUP, House and Neighborhood Development Program, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, and PBHA after-school programs. After graduation, he
worked closely with the Summer Urban Programs, served on the advisory board for Y2Y, and was faculty director of the Alternative Spring Break Church Rebuilding Program, where he spent 15 years organizing hundreds of students through PBHA to help rebuild Black churches destroyed in racist arson attacks. A respected leader in the LGBTQ+ community, he was a founding member of Barack Obama’s National LGBT Leadership Council and was part of the first-ever LGBTQ delegation from the United States to Palestine/Israel. Dr McCarthy graduated with honors in History and Literature, earned his Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, and has taught on Harvard’s faculty since 1998. He is also the Stanley Paterson Professor of American History and Academic Co-Director of the Boston Clemente Course in Dorchester, co-recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal.

About PBHA's Outstanding Supporter the Class of 1972 in Honor of Emile Godfrey:

PBHA is thrilled to honor members of Harvard’s Class of 1972 for their support of PBHA’s Summer Urban Program in memory of their classmate, Emile Godfrey ’72. Godfrey led a life committed to public service deeply grounded in his lived experience and inspired by his work as a college student in one of PBHA’s first summer programs at Columbia Point. Columbia Point was a blueprint for the current Summer Urban Program, which serves 700+ low income children and employs 90 teens at 12 sites in Cambridge and Boston. Following his time at Harvard, Emile served with the Mondale presidential campaign and later worked with the city of Boston. A devoted husband and father, Emile always found time to give back to his community. He was active in many civic organizations and dedicated to the wellbeing of young people throughout his lifetime.