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Cross-legged on the carpet, Maribel Hernandez ’04 is flipping through photo albums, searching for a picture to run with her FM profile. There’s a preteen Hernandez with her family just after they emigrated from Mexico, and Hernandez smiling beside Madeline Albright. That’s Hernandez grinning wildly, her face painted red and white with high school spirit, and her with Bill Clinton last spring. She says her family in Mexico was the most excited about Clinton. “They still talk about it,” she says, laughing...
...report entitled “Five-Year Overview of the Office of Race Relations & Minority Affairs” was written by Hilda Hernandez-Gravelle, one of Avery’s predecessors. The report noted that in the late 1980s and early 1990s, through the Office of Race Relations & Minority Affairs (ORRMA), an extinct structure similar to the RCD Initiative also headed by Hernandez-Gravelle, Harvard dared to be a pioneer in race relations by addressing “the reasons why people did not naturally come together.” However, within a year of Hernandez-Gravelle?...
During its existence, ORRMA addressed the non-celebratory side of race relations and minority affairs, as a complement to Cultural Rhythms, high profile lectures and other multicultural celebrations of the Harvard Foundation. Hernandez-Gravelle decided to “shape the work of the office as one of deep engagement, developing understanding of issues about systematic conflicts that created barriers to diversity.” It is this vision that Harvard realized through its financial and ideological commitment to ORRMA...
Nevertheless, Avery’s commitment to improving race relations has allowed the RCD Initiative to gain momentum in the past few years, with a mass of committed student liaisons and tutors as evidence of its impact and potential. Not since Hernandez-Gravelle’s tenure had this challenging side of diversity received the serious commitment from the University that Avery has expressed through the development of the RCD Initiative. In just one semester, she helped to revitalize the Race-Relations Tutors Program in its pro-active role, to recruit the institutional support of the House Masters...
...fear that without the institutional commitment that the RCD Initiative merits and the former ORRMA received, the University’s support of this proactive approach to race relations on campus might disappear, as it did after Hernandez-Gravelle’s departure. For the RCD Initiative to continue its success, it will need a stronger commitment from the University—an administrative advisor passionate about this vision, a larger budget from the Dean of the College and the support of the House Masters and Freshman Dean’s Office. Avery has continued the great work that Hernandez...