PBHA’s Robert Coles "Call of Service" Lecture & Award brings a significant leader in public service to inspire the Harvard community to become engaged in critical social issues. The lecture honors former PBHA volunteer, trustee, and longtime Harvard faculty member Dr. Robert Coles ’50 and his book The Call of Service, which examines the idealism PBHA seeks to instill in its student volunteers.
This year, the event will honor Bob Moses, civil rights leader and Founder and President of the Algebra Project. With his lifelong commitment to civil rights, Bob Moses embodies the spirit of the Robert Coles "Call of Spirit" Award. As an activist and organizer with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, Moses was at the forefront of empowering disenfranchised African-Americans to increase their political power. In 1982, Moses received a MacArthur "Genius Grant" and turned his focus to education, founding the Algebra Project in his daughter's public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For more than 30 years, the Algebra Project has envisioned education as an extension of the civil rights campaigns of the 1960s, harnessing mathematics as an organizing tool to ensure that all students receive the quality education they deserve. On the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer, we are honored to reward this civil rights leader who has been a model of servant-leadership since the 1960s.
LOCATION:First Parish Church STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20141024T223000Z DTEND:20141025T000000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR