Tag: Bridge Program

  • Nation & World

    Bridge to a new life

    Success stories from Harvard’s Bridge Program, which pairs student tutors with immigrant employees to ease the transition to a new culture, are celebrated.

    4 minutes
    Luz Orozco receives a standing ovation after speaking at the Bridge Program annual dinner.
  • Nation & World

    Changing a community, from the ground up

    Seven area residents were honored at the annual Allston-Brighton Legislators’ Breakfast by local elected officials and the Allston-Brighton Adult Education Coalition for their ongoing work in the community.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The costs of inequality: Across Harvard, efforts to improve lives

    Harvard offers myriad programs to alleviate the inequality gap within the University, from neighboring communities to overseas.

    23 minutes
  • Nation & World

    By the people, for the people

    Annual dinner honors Harvard staff who became U.S. citizens with help from the Harvard Bridge Program and the Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A bridge to somewhere

    Bady Balde, a learned émigré from Guinea, uses Harvard’s Bridge Program to go from Dining Services worker to bank teller to Harvard Kennedy School graduate student.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    University offers staff a bridge to somewhere

    Melani Bizarria cries when she talks about Harvard’s Bridge to Learning and Literacy Program. “I need to say thank you so much for the opportunity,” says Bizarria after a recent English class, her eyes welling up with tears. “I’m trying to do my best, but I don’t have words to explain my feelings. I am…

    5 minutes