Office for Community and Belonging
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Staff list and contact information for the Office for Community and Belonging at Harvard Divinity School.
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Our Team
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Harvard Divinity School is committed to community and belonging as an expression of our shared values and attends to the needs of our vibrant, pluralistic community of faculty, students, staff, and alumni. We carry out these values with open hearts and...
Community and Belonging at HDS
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See the full HDS Community Impact Fund Report . Please note that, effective July 1, 2025, the Office of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging has been renamed the Office of Community and Belonging. Harvard Divinity School aims to educate and cultivate...
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Reorienting to Restore
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How Harvard Divinity School is working toward the vision of becoming a restorative anti-racist and anti-oppressive HDS When the country, and the world, was reacting to the horrific murder of George Floyd and calling for racial justice, Harvard Divinity...
Divinity Hall
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Divinity Hall, the first Harvard building erected outside of the Yard, is where students, faculty, and staff converge for events that build community and prepare students for their careers ahead.
Melissa Wood Bartholomew
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- BA, Howard University
- JD, Howard University
- MDiv, Harvard Divinity School
- MSW and PhD, Boston College
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Melissa Wood Bartholomew (she/her), MDiv ’15, is the Associate Dean for Community and Belonging and Lecturer on Community and Belonging at...
Dean David Hempton on Buffalo Shooting
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The below message was sent to members of the HDS community from Dean David N. Hempton on May 16, 2022. Dear members of the HDS community, The violent, premeditated, and racist hate crime perpetrated on the Black community of Buffalo, New York, has...
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If you have questions or would like to talk to the community care team about a concern or experiences of identity-based harm in the HDS community, please reach out to us in whatever of the following ways you prefer:
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Graduate Profile: Ameerah Ahmad, MTS ’25
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“I feel so lucky to have taken ‘Walking the Inland Sea: Desert Contemplation and Great Salt Lake’ when I did and with the people I did.”
With Climate Justice Week, Anna Del Castillo, MDiv ’21, Brings Hope Into Grief
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“I remember after a busy day of DivEx programming, I sat on the steps of Swartz Hall, feeling the sun on skin and just hearing this whisper from the Divine saying, ‘You belong here; here is a place that you will grow and get to know me better.’ And so I...
Head and Heart Work: Harvard Divinity Community Spends Year Deeply Engaged with Harvard Legacy of Slavery Report
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On a fall afternoon in November inside Harvard Divinity School’s Swartz Hall, the School’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Melissa Wood Bartholomew along with Assistant Dean for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging Steph Gauchel and...