About us
Alexandria King
Hi everyone! I am a first-year studying Government. I am originally from Houston, Texas but currently live in the DFW area. I am very passionate about social justice activism and human rights. Outside of class, I am on the cheer team and I am heavily involved with the Harvard Democrats; I also like to sing and play the guitar. I am super excited to be working with Kari on this project. As a Latina, I found the prospect of elevating other marginalized women’s voices and experiences so important. It is from our peers by which we learn the greatest lessons of compassion and action. But this all starts with the power of a story.
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Kari Traylor​
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Hello! My name is Kari Traylor, and I am a first-year interested in concentrating in either Government or Sociology with a secondary concentration in Environmental Science and Public Policy. Originally, I lived in Houston, Texas, but I have also lived in Atlanta and am currently living in Dallas. I am passionate about social justice, environmental activism, and politics. Outside of class, I am a core organized for Fossil Fuel Divest Harvard, an organization pushing for Harvard to divest its endowment from the fossil fuel industry. After listening to the experiences of fellow Black women on campus, I found it necessary to create an outlet through which the stories of WOC at Harvard could be amplified and appreciated. Thus, this podcast was born.
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Our motivation
We are students of GENED 1130: Power to the People: Black Power, Radical Feminism, and Gay Liberation. Through this course, we have studied the history of various social justice movements, and one fault that continues to persist within most movements is a lack of intersectionality. In the Black Panthers, Second Wave Feminism, various Gay Liberation groups, and many other organizations dedicated to social justice, one demographic is continuously underrepresented in the narrative: women of color. For our Engaged Scholarship project, which tasked us with creating a project that has a community impact, we found it necessary to highlight the voices of women of color at Harvard to make up for the silencing of these voices within the movements we studied in this course.
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The nature of study is to examine the struggles of POC and of women as separate issues; thus, we wished to use our knowledge, education, and platform to elevate the intersectional stories of WOC. Through discussion, we hope to raise awareness, encourage solidarity, and provide applicable solutions. Given the communal nature of social movements, the level of harm inflicted upon the individual is left out of conversations of justice and progress. We believe, however, the sharing of these stories is a radical act with the potential to spark change in our community by bringing focus upon the person as a light to the larger goal of equality and liberation.