2024 Harvard Elections
The HAFFS Election Committee’s full statement is available here.
Voting for the 2024 election for the Harvard Board of Overseers and the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association began on April 1, and will last until May 14, 2024.
By now, all Harvard alumni should have received both electronic links to vote, as well as mail-in ballots (except for those who have opted out of paper communications). If you have not, please contact harvard@electionservicescorp.com.
Visit the official Harvard election page, for more information on each candidate.
HAFFS, in collaboration with our colleagues at FAIR Harvard Alumni+, reached out to each of the 16 candidates to ask about their views on free speech.
Seven of the eight candidates for the Board of Overseers responded to us as of March 31.
You may view their responses by clicking their names, below.
Candidates for the Board of Overseers who have responded:
Click a candidate’s name to review their responses to key questions regarding free speech.
Candidates for the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association:
As of our publication deadline of March 31, 2024, none of the candidates for the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association provided answers to our questions, so HAFFS did not include any HAA Director candidates in its evaluation process. Some responses have started to arrive after our publication deadline, so we will add these responses below, as received, without further analysis or comment.
HAFFS Recommendations:
Based on the questionnaire responses we received, other public statements of the nominees, and follow up communications with several of the nominees, HAFFS has decided – focusing only on free speech issues – to recommend three of the nominees for election to the Board of Overseers.
Click on the links below for the official biographies of our recommended candidates on the official Harvard elections website.
The HAFFS Election Committee’s full statement is available here.
When making your voting decisions, you may wish to take into consideration the failure of candidates to respond to HAFFS’s inquiries about their positions on free speech.