Holly Taylor Sargent is Senior Associate Dean for Advancement and Senior Director for University Women’s Initiatives at Harvard University. In these roles, Holly works to promote and support university-wide projects with international scope. She also works with faculty and Deans to advance women and projects related to women throughout the University. Holly is the Founder and Director of the Women’s Leadership Board based at the Kennedy School of Government, consisting of over 150 women leaders working to support the advancement of women throughout the University and in its work around the world. Holly served as Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and External Relations at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government for 15 years before being promoted to work University-wide in 2005. During her time at the Kennedy School, Holly was centrally involved in the development of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Institutions, the Center for Public Leadership, the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern Europe and the Women and Public Policy Program. She is a Founding Director of the Council of Women World Leaders and a member of the Steering Committee for the Women Leaders Initiative at the World Economic Forum. Dean Sargent is the Founder and President of “Claiming Common Ground” a global project aimed to aggressively recognize, celebrate, and activate our common humanity through the powerful technological and communication tools of the 21st century.