Dear Students, Colleagues, & Friends of the Hart Leadership Program,

We are delighted to share with you exciting news about our program and our efforts to meet and act upon what Martin Luther King Jr. called us to do in addressing “the fierce urgency of now.” Even as we are grateful for the exciting return to in-person teaching and collaboration, we are reminded daily of the leadership challenges that this pandemic has exposed and continues to bring to our attention. At the HLP, we continue to be inspired and enriched by students whose capacity to learn by doing and to reflect on their own leadership challenges provide collective hope and inspiration. In the following newsletter and in the description of what we have planned for the coming year, you will encounter numerous stories of innovation and leadership that began with powerful and compelling questions, the kind that guide all of us to a richer and more connected public life together. As we continue to engage the challenges of this wily pandemic, we take heart from the new forms of engagement and leadership that our students, faculty, and community partners have been piloting since covid first emerged in 2020.