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At least 13 Harvard student organizations launched a coalition this week aimed at fostering collaboration between undergraduate and graduate student organizers to advocate for racial justice initiatives on campus and demand action from Harvard administrators.
Ericka “Ricky” R. Sanchez, a member of the Harvard Graduate Students Union-United Automobile Workers and a Ph.D. candidate in English, said demands for anti-racist action across many student groups following the murder of George Floyd last year sparked the idea for a broader coalition.
“We, as a union, believe very strongly in collective power,” Sanchez said. “We just wanted to come together as a space, and from there we just started reaching out to folks that we were aware of and trying to spread out the network.”