#  Richard J. Cellini 

Visiting Fellow, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics

Research Fellow, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

 

 

 



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Richard is an attorney, business executive, and scholar of the history of slavery and institutional accountability in the Atlantic world. He served as the founding Director of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program from 2022 to 2025. He founded and led the Georgetown Memory Project, an independent research initiative that identified more than 10,000 descendants of enslaved people, and changed the national conversation on race. Richard was a 2022-2024 Research Fellow at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and served as a 2021-2022 Faculty Fellow at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History.

Cellini holds an A.B. and a J.D. from Georgetown University, and an LL.M. from the University of Cambridge (UK). He is an active member of the Harvard University Band.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Current Role
    
     [Visiting Fellow](/current-role/visiting-fellow)