Harvard funds racial healing greenhouse ‘to compost grief and germinate healing’

Harvard University’s Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging recently announced 12 grant recipients for the Harvard Culture Lab Innovation Fund, which bankrolls projects that advance DEI-centric campus projects.

Among the recipients is a racial healing project called “The Greenhouse” and described as “a biweekly healing sanctuary centering Black, Indigenous, and people of color for all members to compost grief and germinate healing,” the Harvard Gazette reported Feb. 27.

Other projects that won this year include: a video series to expose the prevalence and harms of “accent bias”; a project focused on “inclusive anatomical images” that aims to correct exclusionary biases in medical education; and a “lighting for diverse skin tones” workshop.