Boston, MA—On Earth Day (Monday, April 22), prominent alumni, faculty, student leaders and friends of Harvard University will host a press conference to call on Harvard University to eliminate investments in fossil fuels from the approximately $40 billion-dollar endowment.
Speakers will call attention to key changes to the scientific, economic, financial, and legal climates since Harvard announced in 2013 that it would not divest.
Organizers will announce an escalation of the campaign including new engagement from national leaders, the hiring of a full-time staffer to organize alumni, and a week-long series of public events (Harvard Heat Week).
The Press conference will take place on Monday, April 22nd (Earth Day) at 3:00 0p.m. at the Charles Hotel, Longfellow Room located at One Bennet Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 with National leaders connected to Harvard University incuding:
Timothy Wirth ’61, former Harvard Overseer, retired U.S. Senator, and current Vice Chairman of the United Nations Foundation, which is committed to divestment;
Gina McCarthy, former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency now faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health;
Justin Rockefeller, Investment Committee, Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Students leaders from the Divest Harvard campaign
Harvard Professor James Anderson, Philip Weld Professor of Chemistry and Earth and Planetary Sciences
Harvard Professor Dr. Caren Solomon, M.D, Associate Professor of Medicine, Deputy Director, New England Journal of Medicine
Harvard Professor James Engell, Gurney Professor of English and Professor of Comparative Literature
Harvard Professor Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
