Change is Gonna Come (Community Dialogue)

Timothy Patrick McCarthy is an award-winning scholar, educator, and human rights activist who has taught at Harvard since 1998. At HGSE, he is Core Faculty in the Equity and Opportunity Foundations Curriculum, Online Master’s Program in Education Leadership, and Higher Education Concentration. At HKS, where he was the first openly gay faculty member and still teaches the school’s only course on LGBTQ matters, he is Faculty Chair of the Global LGBTQI+ Human Rights Program at the Carr Center and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Public Leadership. McCarthy is the Academic Director emeritus and Stanley Paterson Professor of American History for the Boston Clemente Course, a free college humanities course for lower income adults in Dorchester and co-recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal from President Barack Obama. He has taught in Clemente since its founding in 2001 and was honored with the 2014 Codman Square Health Center Outstanding Community Service Award for this work. He currently serves on the national Board of Directors for the Clemente Course in the Humanities.