Santiago Pardo Sanchez
Adams House
Adams has always been the most inclusive and a home for intellectual vitality. From welcoming the first black student admitted to a House (Lucien Victor Alexis Jr. ’42); to sheltering the leaders of the Vietnam protest in 1968/9; to being the first House to admit women in 1971; to providing the College’s only safe space for LGBTQ students during the 1980s and 1990s, Adams—perhaps because it is Harvard’s most historic House by far—has been a leader in starting conversations and leading us all forward.