We work to create spaces for safety and healing, coalition building, and restorative practices to tend to the impact of, and work toward ending, violence. You can learn more about the support that SHARE offers here.

Our work is grounded in a commitment to bodily autonomy, agency, consent, and decreasing the barriers to accessing support as a part of primary violence prevention.

We believe in:

• Supporting survivors and holding space for and accompanying people who have been impacted by sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, abusive relationships, and discrimination based on gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation
• The inherent wisdom, knowledge, and strategies that people embody
• Self-determination as a part of safety
• Community-centered healing
• Trauma-informed practices
• People having support. When people have the support they need, further harm becomes less likely to occur, and accountability becomes more possible.
• Supporting communities and people in working toward accountability through restorative practices   

The anti-violence movement has a long and complex lineage that can be traced throughout history offering an analysis of the ways that interpersonal and systemic violence are interconnected.

Our work in supporting those who have experienced violence is built on and would not be possible without the support, advocacy, and history of those who have come before us at Harvard, as well as locally, nationally, and internationally.

The lineage of anti-violence movements is a reminder to us that this work comes from a history, analysis, and community of scholar-practitioner-activists; when we re-member our history, we also honor and connect to deepen this lineage of advocacy, healing, and change work.