About Us
About Us
This all started in 2016, when an unidentified group of individuals chose to deface the Bromfield School Senior Rock with racist sayings and symbols. Infuriated and hurt by this hateful action, members of the Harvard community decided that thoughts and prayers were just not enough to address this deep-rooted ignorance. In an effort to move forward and make change, Arm in Arm hit the ground running with educational religious panels and community discussions. Today, the race to acceptance and love is far from over, but our undeniable progress since 2016 continues to fuel us towards the finish line.
Harvard is a town where every citizen is treated with equity, dignity, and respect; one that embraces the diversity that enriches the community and the values that define it.
Arm in Arm’s mission is to promote and uphold a safe, inclusive social climate that values diversity and fosters respect for one another.
We advance our mission through events that contribute to an understanding of, and appreciation for, all our residents and visitors. We confront and oppose expressions of hatred, intolerance and discrimination, and work to unify the community against division. We work in collaboration with the larger community by building a community-wide network of responses to prejudice and discrimination.
We believe that by sharing our ideas and opinions with others in thoughtful and considerate ways we build a stronger and more diverse community.
We value our differences and our traditions, and feel that by extending ourselves to one another we preserve and enrich the community we share.
Diversity enriches and strengthens the community. We learn and grow from one another, even in disagreement.
We believe that inclusion must be fostered and nurtured.
We seek collaboration.
We recognize that to achieve and maintain an inclusive community requires active and sustained efforts, as well as immediate and clear responses to actions that conflict with our community values.
Listening to diverse voices is essential but not sufficient. We must also solicit and encourage ideas and opinions from diverse sources.
We exercise our values in our organizational practice.