You are warmly invited to join the Loeb Fellowship Program this Friday, November 14, for the Loeb Fellowship’s 55th Symposium Panel Discussions. This year’s reunion theme is: The Path Forward: Builders of Hope, Carriers of Change.

We’re pleased to offer two public events as part of this year’s symposium, both dedicated to exploring our theme and inspiring thoughtful discussion. Our reunion brings together Loebs from around the world to reconnect, reflect, and celebrate the Fellowship’s half-century commitment to supporting those who are transforming communities and the places where we live, work, and play. Please join us!

PROGRAM

The conversations below will take place in Piper Auditorium and will be livestreamed above.

How Public Officials Operate in Times of Upheaval: A Conversation with Three Elected Class of 2026 Loeb Fellows

Designing the Possible: Loebs, Leadership and the Future of Cities

Design is a practice of possibility. Across the GSD and the Loeb community, fellows, faculty, and students are applying design intelligence to the urgent questions of governing. Projects led by Toni L. Griffin (LF ’98) and Maurice Cox (LF ’05) build civic capacity and connect mayors, city leaders, and communities with tools to lead change grounded in trust and shared purpose. With philanthropic support, Griffin’s Just City Lab and Mayoral Fellowship and Cox’s ReBuild Initiative show how design can advance justice and opportunity, how vision becomes strategy and strategy becomes action. Moderated by Virginia Prescott (LF ’02), this conversation draws on real-world cases where civic leaders turn manifestos into policy and neighborhoods into engines of transformation. Together, we explore how design and governance work hand in hand to shape more just and resilient cities, with energy, realism, and the conviction that the future is already under construction.

Reception

7:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m.
Stubbins, 112

Harvard University welcomes individuals with disabilities to participate in its programs and activities. If you would like to request accommodations or have questions about the physical access provided, please contact the Public Programs Office at (617) 496-2414 or [email protected] in advance of your participation or visit. Requests for American Sign Language interpreters and/or CART providers should be made at least two weeks in advance. Please note that the University will make every effort to secure services, but that services are subject to availability.

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