Commonwealth Project students collaborate on community-led justice, cultural initiatives, research in region with longstanding economic, racial woes
Some of Saul Glist’s most meaningful time while a Harvard student has been spent in St. Louis, where he has worked with community leaders and programs over the past three summers.
After falling in love with the city and its rich history of activism the summer after his first year, they are there this summer working on their senior thesis and serving as student coordinator for the Commonwealth Project, the brainchild of Walter Johnson, Winthrop Professor of History and Professor of African and African American Studies. The program brings professors and students to the St. Louis area, a region with longstanding economic and racial challenges, to collaborate on community-led justice and cultural initiatives and historical research. . . .