2016 Gomes Honors

Preston Williams portrait

First of Many

April 6, 2016

Preston Williams has often been first: the first tenured African American member of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty; the first African American president of the Society of Christian Ethics; the founding director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois Institute.... Read more about First of Many

Valarie Kaur

Beyond ‘Us and Them’

April 4, 2016

When Valarie Kaur, MTS ’07, visited the Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, after a white supremacist shot six people there in August of 2012, she found none of the recriminations and finger-pointing that characterized the politics of gun violence in the United States.... Read more about Beyond ‘Us and Them’