Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity & Equity
E-mail ozzie.harris.II@dartmouth.edu
Since July 2001 Ozzie Harris has served as Special Assistant to the President for Institutional Diversity and Equity. In this role, he oversees diversity initiatives across Dartmouth, reports directly to the President, and serves as a member of the Executive Committee.
Harris, a member of the Dartmouth class of 1981, served as Acting Director of the EO/AA Office in 1998 and was appointed to the Director of Dartmouth's Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action in 1999. He was Associate Director of the office from 1993-98. He joined the Dartmouth administration in 1992 as Assistant Director of the Office of Financial Aid.
Before joining the College's administration, Harris received a J.D. degree from Vermont Law School and worked as a law clerk for the Boston Human Rights Commission and the New Hampshire Public Defender's Office. He has also worked as House Supervisor for the Oregon Halfway House, Inc.; as Resident Supervisor for the Washington County (Oregon) Community Corrections office; as a Legal Investigator for Gorciak and Associates, Inc. (Portland, OR); as a Student Attorney for Harvard University's Prison Legal Assistance Project; as Legal Intern for the Boston Human Rights Commission; and as a Legal Intern for the Lewis and Clark Legal Clinic at the Northwestern School of Law (Portland, OR).
