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April 2020
Dear HarvardWIT+ community,
We hope you are all keeping well during this time of uncertainty given all going on regarding COVID-19. We acknowledge that the greater Harvard community is struggling to keep up with the burdens of balancing our full lives in this time of crisis.
HarvardWIT+ aims to continue to be a community of support and learning during this difficult time. We hope you will connect with us on our Slack channel and attend our April 20th monthly meeting which will now be held virtually via Zoom.
We are also exploring novel ways in which we can hold space together during this time. If you have any ideas or interest in hosting virtual events or gatherings with HarvardWIT+, please reach out to Anisha Asundi.
It has been truly inspiring to see networks and neighborhoods come together to support each other through mutual aid and community care. In this vein, we have listed a couple of resources on COVID-19 and mutual aid networks in Cambridge and the greater Boston area below, should you be interested in learning more about what is going on in our local communities.
COVID-19 Resources
Thank you,
Anisha Asundi, Deirdre Schreiber, and Donna Tremonte
HarvardWIT+ Co-Chairs
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VIRTUAL
HarvardWIT+ Speaker Series
Pronouns and Beyond: Understanding Gender Identity
SPEAKER
Jessica Halem, LGBTQ Outreach and Engagement Director, Harvard Medical School
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DATE/TIME
Monday, April 20, 3:30-5pm
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Jessica Halem will present, Pronouns and Beyond: Understanding Gender Identity. Jessica is the LGBTQ Outreach and Engagement Director at Harvard Medical School and remains unique in her role for medical schools in the United States. Since taking the helm almost six years ago, she has increased the number in the first-year class who self-identify as LGBTQ from 4% to 15% and recently helped to secure a historic $1.5 million dollar grant to overhaul the curriculum to integrate sexual and gender minority health equity throughout. In this session, Jessica will be sharing the latest research for understanding terminology and concepts associated with gender identity and some immediate ways we can all ensure the positive inclusion of gender diversity throughout our schools and workplaces.
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If you don't have a HarvardKey, register by
emailing: harvardwit@abcd.harvard.edu.
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Hot Jobs!
Hand-selected for the HarvardWIT+ community, here are some active searches happening right now at Harvard. They need candidates; we have a network of talent.
 Instructional Technologist (57), Harvard Kennedy School
Senior PHP Application Developer (58), Harvard Medical School Countway Library
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This month's jobs listing is shorter than previous months. COVID-19 is impacting hiring all around the world, including Harvard. If you’re in the market for a new job, we’re including a few resources below that might offer additional tips to consider during this time.
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Professional Development
There are plenty of professional learning and development opportunities online. In addition to HarvardWIT+ Training Portal Group, try LinkedIn Learning, Harvard Manage Mentor, and IT ProTV.
Quickly get up to speed on leading remote teams inclusively. Catalyst has published this informative tool to help managers and their reports establish communication norms that increase the remote team’s performance.
Learn a bold new model for Diversity and Inclusion work, distinguished from other curricula in several important ways. This day-long training provides a cognitive understanding of how Privilege operates as well as an experiential exploration of what it takes, individually, to fully engage across the many and varied Privilege Gaps in our diverse society.
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April Events
A round up of virtual events about diversity, gender, and technology at Harvard and in the Boston community.
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Ally Actions
During a Time of Crisis
How we can all best support and advocate for marginalized communities during this pandemic
By Anisha Asundi, Research Fellow: Gender Specialist, Women and Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School and co-chair, HarvardWIT+
It's clear that COVID-19 disproportionately affects the most vulnerable and marginalized: including elderly individuals, immunocompromised individuals, communities of color, immigrant and undocumented communities, incarcerated communities, and low-income communities. We are listing a few resources that focus on how to communicate and advocate for these communities using an equitable & inclusive perspective.
Ensure your messaging about COVID-19 is centered around inclusion, empowerment and justice
Many organizations and departments are releasing messages about how their work has been impacted by COVID-19. The Opportunity Agenda has a template to use a VPSA (Value, Problem, Solution, Action) format when talking about the coronavirus and its response in order to center your messaging from an inclusive perspective.
Explore the best ways to support those most marginalized by COVID-19
This includes ensuring there are protections in your local communities for elderly communities, continuing the fight for affordable, quality healthcare & sick leave, and supporting small local businesses. The NAACP created a list of key considerations of equity implications due to COVID-19.
Support mutual aid groups in your community
The mutual aid concept is that people from a community volunteer to offer up resources like food, transportation, and other essentials to each other, according to what they have and others need. Some mutual aid and community care resources from the Cambridge and greater Boston area:
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Share with us
Do you have a job announcement, upcoming virtual event, social gathering, or training, or volunteer opportunity you'd like to share with HarvardWIT+?
Email harvardwit@abcd.harvard.edu by the last Friday of the month for the next month's edition.
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