All About Professor Verma-Agrawal
What is her job title at the Center for Race, Inequality and Social Equity Studies (CRISES)?
Director of Administration and Operations
From 2014 to 2017, Brooks was president and CEO of which civil rights organization?
The NAACP
Her 2014 bestseller The Rise is subtitled “Creativity, the ___ of Failure, and the Search for Mastery.” Fill in the blank.
Gift
In which Boston neighborhood is the Institute located?
Dorchester
WHAT WAS THE VERY FIRST DINNER WE HAD FOR OUR FIRST SPEAKER MEETING?
MADRA DOSA
She earned her BSc and MPH from which public university in western Massachusetts?
UMass Amherst
At which Ivy League law school was he a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal?
Yale Law School
Her TED talk urges audiences to embrace what kind of win?
The near win
How many “Principles of Peace” guide the Institute’s work?
Seven (Love, Unity, Faith, Hope, Courage, Justice, Forgiveness)
2014
She developed a course on Boston’s racial justice history and structural racism. What is it called?
“Racism, Oppression and Health”
He conceived and led a 40-day, 1,000-mile march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, D.C. What was it called?
“America’s Journey for Justice”
She founded this publishing and research initiative examining the role of visual culture in America’s democracy.
Vision & Justice
The Peace Trail, a public art initiative, transforms what everyday street objects into sites of memory and healing?
Street poles
WHAT SPECIAL COLLAB ARE WE ALL HYPED ABOUT THIS SEMESTER?
LOUIS D BROWN COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS
She co-founded FFREE, a group working for racial justice in public schools. What do those letters stand for?
Framingham Families for Racial Equity in Education
He directs a social justice collaborative at Harvard Kennedy School named for which historical figure?
William Monroe Trotter
Her 2024 Harvard University Press book on race and sight in America won the 2025 American Book Award. Name it.
The Unseen Truth: When Race Changed Sight in America
The Campaign for Peace aims to raise how much money to build a National Center of Healing, Teaching and Learning?
$25 million
WHAT POSITION DOES EACH MEMBER OF STEERCOM HOLD?
Ana - Chair, Yehia - EP, Sophia - Comms, Elijah - Social
She serves on the boards of two health organizations, one in Jamaica Plain and one focused on birth. Name one.
Southern Jamaica Plain Health Center and the Neighborhood Birth Center
As a DOJ trial attorney, he filed the first government case alleging housing discrimination against what type of facility?
A nursing home
Before Harvard, she held curatorial positions at two major museums, one in New York and one in London. Name one.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Tate Modern
The Institute’s President and CEO, Chaplain Clementina Chéry, writes a monthly column for which local newspaper?
The Dorchester Reporter
WHAT IS ANA'S CONCENTRATION?
Social Studies!