Naming Expeditor Zine

make a name gift to Harvard when you can make one to Naming Expeditor?

Demystification

WHY

Donate to Naming Expeditor

Artifacts

1. Eligibility: Anyone who you find more eligible than the original namesake are good names

1. Eligibility: Some names may not be used, including those of governments, sitting heads of state, and current University staff and faculty members... and also those who cannot afford.

Demo

3. Opportunity: Infinite! Anything, anywhere unnamed, you NAME it! Already named? no hurt to share!

Partnership

4. Use: We decide together on what name

Archive

5.Visual Presentation: Pretty and fun, handmade signs for you!

Community Partners: Agassiz Baldwin community center, Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development office, FAS Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage, Harvard Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming, HCOPES(Harvard College Overdose Prevention and Education Students), HGAASA(Harvard Generational African American Student Association), Harvard Legacy of Slavery Project, Harvard University Visitor Center, The Harvard Crimson, P.A.I.N.(Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) Project facilitator& liason: Yolanda Yuanlu Peng

Why Naming Expeditor?

Make a Name Gift to Harvard

2. Cost: You deserve listing your name with naming expeditors by making any contribution, And a good name is priceless!

2. Cost: the price of a name starts from $10,000(refers to a chair in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Amphitheater) 3. Opportunity: Limited! With just 400 chairs, you won’t want to miss it!

4. Use: Harvard must retain full control over the administration of the funds.

5. Visual Presentation: Boring Plaques 6. Warning: The University, with approval of the Corporation, may choose to revoke naming recognition when the gift commitment supporting the naming has not been fulfilled, or when the donor’s actions are so outside the bounds of acceptable conduct, as judged by reference to prevailing societal norms.

7. Supplement: Prevailing societal norms ordinarily will be assessed at the time of the gift, not later.

Pedagogy

@NAMINGEXPEDITER_Harvard

EXPEDITOR

We hope each action taken will work as a step adding up to a sustained effort leading positive changes toward a collective naming system with more transparency from the institution side, more democracy and participation from the community, and more awareness for all.

Our Vision

NAMING

Naming Expeditor is a cross-campus and intergenerational nonprofit organization that uses research, design, art, and activism to amplify community voice and facilitate public engagement in the current institutional naming system. We work with students, faculty, alumni, staff, the local community, and external activists, as well as with relevant institution-appointed committees and task forces, on integrating research outcomes, collecting community input, developing tools to demystify the current institutional naming system and conducting strategic interventions of both short-term and long-term.

Mission Statement 6.Warning: The organization, without approval of either you or the university, may steal a name from the entity when we collectively agree that the name creates harm to our community.

To become a naming expeditor, only you need is the recognition of naming’s significant role as part of our collective imaginition in the public sphere. Whatever stake you individually hold, wherever your expertise lies and whatever levels of commitment you are willing to make (see the participation loop on the back), Naming Expeditor provoides a way to participate and have your efforts passed on towards the change we desire.

What do we do?

7.Supplement: Long lasting companionship, at the time and after.

@NAMINGEXPEDITER_Harvard

I learnt about the namesake of this building/space/program(or other entities) by chance, and recognize how their actions, beliefs or legacy may cause harm to our community.

I agree on the importance of naming, but haven’t felt any real impact on my everyday life.

Aware

Ignorant

EXPEDITOR

Leader monly hold, I still decide on mobilizing and leading more people as I used to be in building an organization that keeps the naming issue in the loop at Harvard.

We hope each action taken will work as a step adding up to a sustained effort leading positive changes toward a collective naming system with more transparency from the institution side, more democracy With full awareness secondary stake and aparticipation from thethe community, and more all.the concerns people comofawareness myself, for and

Our Vision

If you are a game-changer already, please start here!

Manipulation

Citizen Control

A community organization supported by adequate technical and financial resource takes charge of the affairs on naming, denaming and renaming, and have the majority of seats in the committee of decision making.

Why Naming Expeditor?

WHY

I have community organizations hold the significant cards to assure accountability of their advocacy by having control on a certain budget, hiring decisions, or having final veto powers.

I place community members on rubberstamp advisory committees or advisory boards and regard participation as a public relations vehicle.

I actively join in the actions on campus, such as signing petitions, participating in 5.Visual Presentation: conducting workshops and perPretty protests, and fun, handmade signs for you! formances, involving in publicity both on-

I advise to adjust their values and attitudes to fit those of the larger society, rather than changing the infrastructure that cause their uncomfort.

Artifacts

1. Eligibility: Anyone who you find more eligible than the original namesake are good names

1. Eligibility: Some names may not be used, including those of governments, sitting heads of state, and current University staff and faculty members... and also those who cannot afford.

Demo

3. Opportunity: Infinite! Anything, anywhere unnamed, you NAME it! Already named? no hurt to share!

4. Use: We decide together on what name

4. Use: Harvard must retain full control over the administration of the funds.

I realize that any systemic change will be 5. Visual Presentation: Boring Plaques a long and painstaking journey, and start

Therapy

make a name gift to Harvard when you can make one to Naming Expeditor?

Donate to Naming Expeditor

2. Cost: You deserve listing your name with naming expeditors by making any contribution, And a good name is priceless!

2. Cost: the price of a name starts from $10,000(refers to a chair in the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center Amphitheater) 3. Opportunity: Limited! With just 400 chairs, you won’t want to miss it!

6.Warning: site and on social media.

The organization, without approval of either you or the university, may steal a name from the entity when we collectively agree that the name creates harm to our community.

consider ways to make a sustained com6. to Warning: The University, with approval of the my Corporation, mitment that survives beyond own may choose to revoke naming recognition when the stay. the naming has not been gift commitment supporting fulfilled, or when the donor’s actions are so outside the bounds of acceptable conduct, as judged by reference to prevailing societal norms.

Demystification

Delegated Power

Make a Name Gift to Harvard

Partnership

I redistribute power, share responsibility and interest with self-organized community menmbers through negotiation, instead of giving them power.

Committed

I keep transparency to the community on not the final decision but the decision-making process, principles and considerations as much as possible to facilitate better understanding.

Informing

Partnership

I develope ideas for improving the current naming system through consistently learning from the practice of both top-down and bottom-up, inside and outside.

Pedagogy

NAMING

Naming Expeditor is a cross-campus and intergenerational nonprofit organization that uses research, design, art, and activism to amplify community voice and facilitate public engagement in the current institutional naming system. We work with students, faculty, alumni, staff, the local community, and external activists, as well as with relevant institution-appointed committees and task forces, on integrating research outcomes, collecting community input, developing tools to demystify the current institutional naming system and conducting strategic interventions of both short-term and long-term.

Mission Statement

Placation

I place a few hand-picked representative community members on board of our decision making, allowing people to propose or advise, but keep the right to judge the legitimacy, feasibility and priority of these suggested actions.

7. Supplement: Prevailing societal norms ordinarily will be assessed at the time of the gift, not later.

Community Partners: Agassiz Baldwin community center, Harvard Alumni Affairs and Development office, FAS Task Force on Visual Culture and Signage, Harvard Committee to Articulate Principles on Renaming, HCOPES(Harvard College Overdose Prevention and Education Students), HGAASA(Harvard Generational African American Student Association), Harvard Legacy of Slavery Project, Harvard University Visitor Center, The Harvard Crimson, P.A.I.N.(Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) Project facilitator& liason: Yolanda Yuanlu Peng

dInformed etanoinipO

-hI tdid ehsome w ,noresearch inipo on nathe evnaming ah uoyissues, oD including more cases, actions and institu-er siht no ,eugav ro raelc re tional steps taken both occurring around ?einusasbroader i gnimcontext. an and

If you are a new comer as Yolanda used to be, please start here!

seek out community input? cision-making process, and also actively Do you provide information about the de-

n oitatlusnoC Consultation Informing

dnI abuild ,kcabdiverse deef rochannels f slennahcfor puconsultation, tes uoy oD eht ot ysurveys, lper oslaroundtable including?m attitude meetings, and public hearings, to make sure that community engagement is involved in the decision making process.

To become a naming expeditor, only you need is the recognition of naming’s significant role as part of our collective imaginition the public sphere. Whatever stake you inI get to knowin some activists personally dividually hold, wherever your expertise lies and develop more empathy onof them, keepyou are and whatever levels commitment a close attention latest(see progress and loop willingon to make the participation on the Naming Expeditor provoides provide helpback), if necessary. a way to participate and have your efforts passed on towards the change we desire.

Archive

on the Harvard renaming process?

Have you actively sought out information What do we do?

7.Supplement: Long lasting companionship, at the time and after.

Active

Concerned

Opinionated

Informed