Join the Harvard Alumni community for an event that will focus on how to show up for the Asian American community.

Following our successful events focusing on Anti-Racism Allyship (October), Allyship with the LGBTQ+ community (November), and Allyship with Indigenous Peoples (February), the Harvard Clubs of Boston and Ireland in partnership with the Harvard Asian American Alumni Alliance will be holding an event on Allyship with the Asian American community.

This event will focus on how Asian Americans are looking for support in the wake of the Atlanta killings of 6 Asian women a few weeks ago. With speakers including Harvard Professor Ju Yon Kim and alumna, professor and filmmaker Renee Tajima-Peña, we will delve into the history of Anti-Asian hate in America and actions we can all take to support the Harvard Asian American Alumni community. The conversation will be facilitated by Sheryl WuDunn, author and award-winning journalist, business and finance consultant and alumni leader.

The link to the event will be sent on the day of the event to all registrants.

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Please join us for a special lecture with Daniel L. Shapiro, founding director of the Harvard International Negotiation Program.  

Named one of the top 15 professors at Harvard University, Dr. Shapiro is a world-renowned negotiation scholar who has advised everyone from government leaders and Fortune 500 companies to hostage negotiators and families in crisis. His lectures bring these experiences to life through personal stories of his global research. He has launched successful conflict resolution initiatives in the Middle East, Europe, and East Asia, and for three years chaired the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Conflict Resolution. He is co-author of the negotiation classic Beyond Reason and author of Negotiating the Nonnegotiable, which Matthew Bishop of the Economist Group noted as “quite simply, the best book I have ever read on negotiating in situations of extreme conflict.” He is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital and affiliate faculty at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School.

Registration is required for this complimentary event to ensure that you are provided with the log-in credentials for our Zoom Meeting.  You will receive the login credentials approximately 3 hours prior to your event, they will not be included in the automatic confirmation email you receive upon registration.  

Please click here to learn more about and purchase Professor Shapiro’s newest book, Negotiating the Nonnegotiable.

This event is organized in conjunction with the following Co-Sponsors from the HAA's Professional Shared Interest Groups: 

Harvard Alumni for Global Development
Harvard Women in Defense, Diplomacy, and Development Alumni Network (W3D)
Harvard Alumni Global Financial Markets Forum
Harvard Negotiation Alumni Society 

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To mark the global celebrations of St. Patrick's Day please join us for a special conversation with Trina Vargo, President of the US-Ireland Alliance, an organization she founded in 1998. The conversation will be led by Harvard Club of Boston Member and Past President of the Harvard Club of Ireland Bob Manson.

As Senator Ted Kennedy’s foreign policy adviser, Trina Vargo was instrumental in the controversial effort to convince President Clinton to grant a travel visa to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams—a crucial step in the Northern Ireland peace process. Vargo served as the Irish-issues adviser to every Democratic presidential campaign from Dukakis through Obama. She founded the US-Ireland Alliance and the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarship program, which introduces future American leaders to the island of Ireland. Of the approximately 240 Mitchell Scholars about one quarter of that number are members of our Harvard alumni community including three new Mitchell Scholars about which recent announcement you can read more in the following Harvard Gazette Article. And she created the annual Oscar Wilde Awards to bring together creatives in the field of entertainment. Vargo has navigated the corridors of power in Ireland and the United States, experiencing first-hand the deep affection each country holds for the other. She has also seen valuable opportunities squandered—and sabotaged—by those on both sides of the Atlantic who jealously defend their turf against imaginative ideas. Vargo became part of the Clintons’ “enemies list” as a result of her work on Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008. She has been attacked by a vocal, but determined, few as a result of a truth-to-power opinion piece on immigration, and a member of the Irish parliament demanded she be hauled before the body’s Foreign Affairs Committee. She even had to battle the Irish Film Board in her efforts that resulted in J.J. Abrams filming "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" in Ireland. Vargo passionately believes the US-Ireland relationship needs to evolve and to survive.

With the achievement of the Northern Ireland peace agreement and the massive economic advancement of Ireland in the 1990s, Vargo recognized how the relationship between the United States and the island of Ireland would naturally change, something she first wrote about in the Washington Post on the launch of the US-Ireland Alliance in 1998.

To learn more about the US-Ireland Relationship in Uncertain Times you can purchase Vargo's book, Shenanigans Here.

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